The Woody Guthrie Tribute here will be going on in just two weeks. And as the chairman for the event, I've been going back and forth with different people on just how things will be laid out this year.

Our biggest controversy this year is over hot dogs.

See, it's my position the hot dogs should be provided for free on the first night. When the issue of cost came up, I offered to donate them if it was a problem. Well, the board voted we'd do the hot dogs for free, and the board would pay.

Well, the controversy didn't end there. People around here form boards, but they don't like to go by board decisions. And so, we had the person who was going to prepare the hot dogs refusing to do so if we were just going to GIVE them away. And the woman who helped organize the center here doesn't like it much either.

It was in one of those conversations about that yesterday where it came to a head. She said, in a patrician tone "well, if we GIVE them away, we'll just attract FREELOADERS".

I came back quick with, "yeah, the kind of people Woody HATED, right?"

I find it ironic that we hold people up as icons, yet we have contempt for the kinds of people who live the lives we claim to admire. As Woody once astutely observed, "if Jesus was to preach like He preached in Galilee, they would lay Jesus Christ in His grave!"