IN 1911, A GUY NAMED J. K. DANIELS sculpted a cow out of butter and sent it along to the annual Iowa State Fair. To this day, about 600 pounds of butter is spread upon a wood-and-metal frame in a refrigeration unit kept at a steady 40 degrees. After the fair, they turn up the heat, and when the butter is soft enough to be removed, they collect it in five-gallon buckets and use it again the following year. The butter cow is eternal.
Over time, the cow was joined by a cast of supporting butter sculptures. Down through the years, these have included a Butter a Butter Abraham Lincoln, and a Butter Starship In 1999, the fair featured a Butter Last Supper. But it is the Butter Cow that has the dark powers. Everybody agrees. In their hubris, the Democrats risk the eternal wrath of the Butter
