injecting Onion humor into your day....

Somedays all one needs is the Onion: 

"North Dakotans live a horrible life of isolation and deprivation,
struggling to grow crops in a hostile, sub-zero climate while their
indifferent government routinely prioritizes bolstering the state's
military might," BBC World correspondent Caroline Eagan said. "There
are people starving there, and yet high-tech weapons laboratories and
military bases abound. It's deplorable."

"The South Dakotans, while a simple people themselves, are friendly,
hospitable, and far more in touch with the outside world," Chirac
said. "Many people, myself included, have passed through and seen the
Badlands and Mount Rushmore. North Dakota, on the other hand, is a
bleak, racially homogeneous state that few people ever enter or exit."