Garage Logic - Concept

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Garage Logic is a place where it's understood that any problem worth discussing can be solved in the garage. Garages are revered. Lawyers are reviled. Cigar smoking is encouraged. Residents are big fans of boating, golfing, and the University of Garage Logic Fighting Stogies. Traditional values have currency in Garage Logic, and cultural and religious traditions are preserved. The only elected official in Garage Logic is the mayor, and his only responsibility is the town's Independence Day fireworks display. Some may find the socio-political climate to be generally libertarian but is most decidedly anti-pompous as local, state, national and international matters are reviewed. "News Release" statistics are ridiculed frequently, and G.L. proves over and over that a significant percentage "....were just made up in the last five minutes." In contrast to Lake Wobegon, another fictional Minnesota city, there is no narrative to Garage Logic—it is merely the daily "guy talk" discussion in the garage (women rarely enter this territory, though the female producer frequently assists in the hunt for logic—and the truth). Perhaps the main attraction of Garage Logic is the fact that anyone can become a citizen merely by declaring himself so--and that anything that defies logic (or is blindly followed by uncritical and emotional partisans) is open for pointed and unrelenting criticism.

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