Here's where stupid August news come in. Ingraham was working at WaPo on a terrible August day and needed to put something up online when he found the USGS list of US counties from most to least beautiful (or ugliest). That least beautiful county is Red Lake County, Minnesota. Almost instantly after his blog post detailing this fact was published he suffered a deluge of the patented Indignant Minnesotan comments on his post. The tirade concluded with an invitation from the mayor of Red Lake Falls, the county seat, to come visit. He did, was welcomed by the high school marching band and a delegation less quirky but just as earnest as the crew that greeted Dorothy in Oz. He and his family soon moved to Red Lake Falls, and they're still there. You may know him from the famous twitter thread about a delivery of crickets to feed their pet lizard.
Who on earth moves to far northern Minnesota and goes west rather than settling in Grand Marais or whatever? I am befuddled. Fuddled completely.
Here's where stupid August news come in. Ingraham was working at WaPo on a terrible August day and needed to put something up online when he found the USGS list of US counties from most to least beautiful (or ugliest). That least beautiful county is Red Lake County, Minnesota. Almost instantly after his blog post detailing this fact was published he suffered a deluge of the patented Indignant Minnesotan comments on his post. The tirade concluded with an invitation from the mayor of Red Lake Falls, the county seat, to come visit. He did, was welcomed by the high school marching band and a delegation less quirky but just as earnest as the crew that greeted Dorothy in Oz. He and his family soon moved to Red Lake Falls, and they're still there. You may know him from the famous twitter thread about a delivery of crickets to feed their pet lizard.
This could be true or false and still be truthy--a story that, like all wobegon stories, is above average.