I can't look at a package of Land o' Lakes butter without feeling a sense of loss. Four years ago, the company dropped Mia, the "butter maiden," from its package design. Mia had been around since 1928. She was a young indigenous woman, kneeling in stereotypical garb and clutching a Land o' Lakes container. The container had ... an image of Mia on it, clutching a Land o Lakes container. An inquisitive youth without enough to occupy his time could spend much of it staring at the design wondering how many regressions there are, trying to count the boxes nestled within one another. How do young people today first encounter the notion of infinite recursion, without Mia? What is worse: there has been no NEW package design. The old design of a serene lakeside view has been retained unchanged, except for the absence of Mia. That big "O" in the center of the product name that once framed her face now frames ... nothing. Literally, it frames w...