...And The Sheep Are Scarce

My battle to get the City of St. Louis Park to present an alternative viewpoint along with their government sponsored showing of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" has been described by one local scribbler as "one guy in his basement against City Hall."

The same wag might then label David Cesarek's fight "one guy in his basement against the State of Wyoming":

I'm not a resident of Breckenridge, and have never been there. I am, however, a resident of a small town in MN, and I wouldn't stand by if some giant attacked our schools and tried to impose their will on us. If this school having the cowboy logo would in any way affect the state of Wyoming, it would be a different matter. This is simply an arrogant and selfish act on the part of this state to dictate control over a weaker institution; and it shouldn't be tolerated.

More from a Strib story on why Breckenridge's cowboy logo will ride off into the sunset:

That cowboy waving his hat as he sits astride a bucking horse? The one who for decades rode tall and proud as the logo of athletic teams at Breckenridge High School?

He's waving goodbye.

Facing a costly legal fight with the state of Wyoming, which claims rights to the logo, Breckenridge Superintendent David Pace said Wednesday that the school will cowboy down.

"It was going to cost the school district more money in legal fees and things like that," Pace said. "At the same meeting [Tuesday night] where I was presenting the school board with $320,000 in budget cuts, it seemed relatively foolish to recommend allocating resources to a logo fight."

He said the district "will go back and look at earlier designs, all of which incorporated some rendition of a cowboy, or maybe design a new logo."

Pace said he received a letter from Wyoming officials Tuesday restating their demand that Breckenridge stop using a logo almost identical to the bucking horse and rider featured on the state's license plates.

Feel the pride people of Wyoming. Feel the pride.

David is calling for a boycott of Wyoming and all its products. Other than sheep and "Brokeback Mountain," I'm not sure what they even entails, but count me in.