I tend to like just about any bar, whether it's swank cocktail lounge, hipster craft beer warehouse, Superior dive or backwoods hick joint. The only thing I can't tolerate is when a beer costs something like $5.26. For the love of Satan, just charge $6. Isn't rounded off drink prices guaranteed in the Constitution? But I digress.

I'll resist the urge to nominate 50 places and limit myself to a dozen: Kom-on-Inn, Mitch's, Red Herring, Carmody, Steel Toe, Dugout, Wabegon, Thirsty Pagan, Owl's Club, Duluth Flame, Sir Benedict's, Breeze Inn.

Well, here is the best I can do for a proposed PDD Awards boundary map.



Obviously Superior and places that share a boundary with Duluth needed to be included. The Carlton and Lake County borders seemed like a good place to draw the east/west lines. There is a sense that Twig and Munger should be included, but then the western border would have to get all jagged. So I'll just present this and see who has a better idea for going forward. Clearly the "10 miles" guideline won't work because including half of Cloquet is just silly. But if we included Cloquet in its entirety it would be hard to justify leaving Two Harbors out and then the whole thing would get out of control.

Naturally, all of this will be hotly debated in the PDD House and Senate.