Like the New Yorker used to say (in their little end-of-article clips)

Tab

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Thu Mar-05-09 06:49 PM
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Like the New Yorker used to say (in their little end-of-article clips)

Edited on Thu Mar-05-09 06:50 PM by Tab

Articles we never finished reading...

Iowans say pig-odor study passes the smell test

DES MOINES, Iowa � On Capitol Hill, a $1.7 million earmark for pig odor research in Iowa has become a big, fat joke among Republicans, a Grade A example of pork. But the people who live cheek by jowl with hog farms in the No. 1 pig-producing state aren't laughing....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090305/ap_on_re_us/pork_for_pigs

This country just blows me away sometimes. (sigh)

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Thu Mar-05-09 07:50 PM
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1. Have you ever driven past a pig farm?

A big one? Like the ones they have in Iowa?
I wouldn't wish the experience on anyone. The thought of actually living upwind of one of these places makes me want to puke.
It IS a problem. And 1.7 million bucks in a budget that big is nothing. Remember, the New Yorker is published in a city that panics at an aroma that smells like maple syrup blowing in from New Jersey. (I subscribe to, read and love the New Yorker, by the way.)

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Thu Mar-05-09 09:42 PM
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2. I think you mean downwind

but I get your point.

I do live in New England, so I know the maple syrup deal, but I would argue that's not an issue. Regardless, syrup time is only a few weeks out of every year. And, honestly, I don't find the maple syrup process that awful.. and a lot of work goes into making maple syrup. Pig farms, on the other hand...

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