Hairdressers are essential.  Three months is too long for anyone to be forced to forgo a haircut.  When my hair annoys me by hanging in my eyes, I become intolerant. On April 30, when Minnesota governor Tim Walz once again moved the goalposts, canceling a second scheduled haircut since the earliest days when governors began controlling our lives, I had had enough.  Minnesota is a blue state.  Our governor is a blue governor, although somewhat less tyrannical than many other states’ blue governors. What he must realize is that many of Minnesota’s neighbors are not blue states.  It was time to engage in a bit of Free State Tourism.  Mason City, the closest town in Iowa at 150 miles from our home, was still of the opinion that hairdressers are non-essential workers who might spread the dreaded coronavirus.  That wouldn’t work.  Watertown, the closest town in South Dakota, 200 miles...(Read Full Post)