Hold my calls, 2,123 new Minnesota flags just dropped.
In a move guaranteed to derail workplace productivity for the rest of the week, the State Emblems Redesign Commission revealed the thousands of answers Minnesotans submitted to the question: How hard can it be to design a new state flag?
The submissions were full of earnest efforts to give Minnesota the state symbol it deserves. Elegant flags. Designs crafted with an eye for the state's history and its future.
The kind of flags that say "Minnesota" without needing to have the word "Minnesota" written across them in big red letters like the one we have now.
This is not a story about those flags.
This is a salute to the other flags. The flags scrawled in crayon. The flags with dogs and mosquitoes and loons with laser eyes. The flags that exist just to make you laugh.

Here's to the flags that may not tell you much about Minnesota, but tell you everything you need to know about the people who love this place.

Who's a good flag? You're a good flag! Minnesotans designed their flags with the things they love best about this place. The loons, the stars, the northern lights. Canoes, hotdish and hockey sticks. And one flag that was just a photo of this very good dog.