The Wild, Wild (Mid) West

No enforced rules here. Do whatever you want.

OK. Let’s check in about last week’s Fourth of July festivities. While out harvesting on the Iowa farm on Friday the 5th, my friend and co-farmer remarked to me about the crazed absurdity (my words) of our city of Omaha’s pyromaniacal approach (my words again) to the week preceding and day of the Fourth of July. She just moved here last fall from Miami,…