Thought for Food

Crop art is the art of making things out of seeds and beans and the like. There’s a robust tradition of crop art as left-wing political statement at the Minnesota State Fair.

While the piece above, “Self Portrait with First Ladies,” is utterly baffling (what’s with the Frida Kahlo references?), the ones below are more straight-forward.

The visage of our 44th president was immortalized in painstaking detail…

… while his Certificate of Live Birth urges birthers to “MOVE ON!”

AIG was dubbed “too well-connected to fail.”

Michele Bachmann, Minnesota loon and “Patron Saint of Wingnuts,” was a favorite target.

She was a featured freak in the “GOP Sideshow” alongside fat man Rush Limbaugh and snake woman AnnaConda.

And her “Precious Moments” were celebrated in millet.

Finally, on an entirely different note, Farrah was remembered as an icon should: with dried beans.