And because of ag gag laws no one with any power is allowed to acknowledge the obvious reason Iowa is the only state with increasing cancer.

And most of the soy/corn grown here is for animal feed. The industrial mining isn't helping the cancer water either.

Also if I can bitch about Iowa for a second, yeah we have a lot of food farming here, but the industrial quantity plus no regulations means our tapwater has DOZENS OF CARCINOGENS. Smart people here all know to never drink unfiltered tapwater.

Red states produce the bulk of our meat, true—though California still produces 8% of American beef.

But the red states’ role as America’s breadbasket is LONG gone. Most red state agro-economy has been redirected from human-grade food to commodity feedstock.

And much of that is on federal welfare.

It goes even deeper than this. The vast bulk of red state agriculture is corn, soybeans or seed crops.

And most of it is not for US human consumption! We export 20% of our corn, half of our soybean and seeds. The rest?

Most of it becomes oil, animal feed or….ETHANOL.

The subsidized fuel additive.

Answer: 75% of all American farm workers are Latin American migrants. Yes, the same folks that the party red states support want to deport.

And no, they’re not doing it “to be nice.”

Underground utilities may make it difficult to build directly on top of the street, but if there are clear areas, maybe!

Another option is something like the Park Blocks in Portland - A linear park in the middle, narrow streets on either side, lots of housing on the surrounding blocks.

She was also a suffragist, attempting to register to vote in 1871.

The medal was revoked in 1917, but Walker refused to return it, and wore it until her death in 1919. It was restored to her in 1977.
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Trump isn’t interested in truth. He is interested in subordination and control. The apology conveys to me that the BBC thinks they can sweep this under the rug with a robust “sorry,” but that’s just opened the door to an authoritarian to come at them. Where are the journalists to say “no, enough?”

A lifelong "dress reformer", she wore trousers under short dresses and eventually switched to trousers and jackets. She was frequently arrested for her choice.

"I don't wear men's clothes, I wear my own clothes," she said.

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You say that like it's a bad thing. Of course it's haunted.

That's a pretty word

I wonder how many of these there are. This is not the same one, but obviously on a theme. Sold in 2014.
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The provenance notes here are fun.

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Want.

Note this is 15 years old.

That was me Sunday morning before and after I went to the Japanese Garden. I keep remembering that line from a Calvin & Hobbes strip "The world isn't so bad if you can just get out in it."