In All Fairness

Gangrey.com has become a consummate inventory of off-beat articles about fairs. We all gotta cover them at some point, right? Keeping with that tradition, here's Richard Lake: It is, in short, the lust for life that nothing but 100 acres of rides and games and deep-fried goodness can satisfy.
This is not news, of course, to the hundreds of thousands of Magnolia Staters who attend the Mississippi State Fair every year. These people already know the fair kicks off Wednesday and will run for 12 days. The fair, clearly, has meaning for them.
It might not be news, either, to some of the world's great philosophers, many of whom have opined at one time or another on the kind of bliss that defines…