Fighting Bob Fest
I spent part of the day on Saturday at Fighting Bob Fest. It is an annual event held at the Sauk County Fairgrounds in my hometown of Baraboo. Essentially it is a progressive gathering, with the usual stuff like speakers, booths, etc. I was happy to see a big turnout, close to 5,000 people attended, despite the extreme heat on Saturday.
While I enjoyed Fighting Bob Fest, and I definitely liked the people, I found that I didn’t usually agree with how they wanted to make changes. For example, one of the booths contained information about a proposed Department of Peace. At first, I thought "what a great idea". But after about 10 seconds of thinking about it, I realized what a terrible idea it really was. While I’m about as big a peace-nik as you will find, another government bureaucracy is not going to help anything. What happens when the Department of Peace decides that a conflict is justified? There is a very serious conflict of interest here. Anyway, that is all the time that I have to rant on this subject.