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		<title>A new North American free trade proposal</title>
		<link>http://www.stickybuffalo.com/2011/a-new-north-american-free-trade-proposal</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 23:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my continuing series of useful, simple, completely obvious and absolutely-without-a-chance ideas, may I suggest: A free trade zone within the United States. At this point most readers will be either preparing objections to naive libertarian dogma or, more likely, concluding that I&#8217;m drunk again. I assure you, however: I&#8217;ve had nothing to drink today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man of Steel vs City of Certainties</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading the November solicitations for products from DC, I am given pause amidst the usual eye-rolling and &#8220;this looks fucking idiotic,&#8221; etc., by the following: SUPERMAN #705 Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Art by EDDY BARROWS &#38; J.P. MAYER Cover by JOHN CASSADAY 1:10 Variant cover by YANICK PAQUETTE &#38; MICHEL LACOMBE “Grounded” part 5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>sb declares temporary limited amnesty for cow-tipping, sheep-fucking, and corn-related insults</title>
		<link>http://www.stickybuffalo.com/2010/sb-declares-temporary-limited-amnesty-for-cow-tipping-sheep-fucking-and-corn-related-insults</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>josh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[civil rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[that which we laughingly call the journalistic profession]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stickybuffalo.com/?p=665</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ok, i&#8217;ll admit it. i often rush to the defense of rural areas, especially the midwest, when they&#8217;re portrayed in the coastal media as white-bread, red-state backwaters devoid of cultural life and populated more or less exclusively by nativist mouthbreathers and bible-beating hicks. it&#8217;s one of my most cherished hobby horses. but you&#8217;re on your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to New York: Get your own attractions</title>
		<link>http://www.stickybuffalo.com/2010/letter-to-new-york-get-your-own-attractions</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 01:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear New York, There&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve been meaning to ask you about. It&#8217;s like this, you see&#8230; I&#8217;m trying to understand why, if you&#8217;re so awesome, and we&#8217;re so lame&#8230; Why does it seem like you&#8217;re constantly trying to grab our stuff? I mean, personally, I believe Mr. James should be free to make his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>hi, we&#8217;re iowa, vanguard of equal rights in america. and you are&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://www.stickybuffalo.com/2009/hi-were-iowa-vanguard-of-equal-rights-in-america-and-you-are</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>josh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[so here you are: a good and pious metropolitan liberal, holed up in your coastal ivory tower and luxuriating in the smell of your own cinnamon-scented farts, when your 3G mobile device tells you that one of those vowel states (&#8220;iowa&#8221;&#8230;is that the one with the potatoes?) is now one of only three in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>wearing my &#8216;native&#8217; shirt proudly today</title>
		<link>http://www.stickybuffalo.com/2009/wearing-my-native-shirt-proudly-today</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>josh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[with this morning&#8217;s supreme court ruling, iowa becomes the first non-coastal state to recognize same-sex marriage, one of only three in the nation (after prop 8 ) where gay couples enjoy the same rights as straight couples. Richard Socarides, a former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton on gay civil rights, said today’s decision could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>rambling, self-indulgent inaugural musings</title>
		<link>http://www.stickybuffalo.com/2009/rambling-self-indulgent-inaugural-musings</link>
		<comments>http://www.stickybuffalo.com/2009/rambling-self-indulgent-inaugural-musings#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>josh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[i woke up this morning to the sound of birds singing outside the window. no shit &#8212; birds. i&#8217;m trying hard not to find undue significance in every little thing i see today, but it&#8217;s seven degrees. nothing should be alive out there, much less creatures capable of making music. has it only been a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>obama rally in des moines</title>
		<link>http://www.stickybuffalo.com/2008/obama-rally-in-des-moines</link>
		<comments>http://www.stickybuffalo.com/2008/obama-rally-in-des-moines#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>josh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photos from 10/31/2008 Obama rally in Des Moines, Iowa.]]></description>
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		<title>flood postmortem</title>
		<link>http://www.stickybuffalo.com/2008/flood-postmortem</link>
		<comments>http://www.stickybuffalo.com/2008/flood-postmortem#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>josh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2008 flood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[things that washed up in our yard: we can&#8217;t figure out how this got here, or where the other half is. the nearest state patrol field office is in cedar rapids. we think the picnic table may have come from the park about a half-mile upstream. tripped on this huge jug of deadly poison while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>flood politics</title>
		<link>http://www.stickybuffalo.com/2008/flood-politics</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>josh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2008 flood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[two likely long-term political outcomes of the 2008 flood occurred to me while in the midst of sandbagging last week: one, a lot more people are going to be open to the idea of global climate change after this summer. two 500-year floods fifteen years apart should be enough to convince even the most willfully [...]]]></description>
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