Last week, the Supreme Court of Iowa reversed a statewide ban on gay marriage, making it legal for gay people in Iowa to attain the same status as straight people, in the eyes of the state. Of course, opponents of gay marriage (bigots, I think they’re called) immediately cried “activist judges!” which is a complete [...]

The city road crews of little Ankeny, Iowa have decided that it’s not tasty enough just to salt icy roads in the wintertime. They’ve decided to kick it up a notch. They’re garlic salting their roads. I shit you not. Turns out, a local spice producer was going to toss out a bunch of garlic [...]

I’m not going to pretend that I’m about to give you some in-depth political observations that you couldn’t find over at Salon.com or the New York Times or The Daily Kos or The National Review. I’m most certainly not smart enough to crunch all of the numbers and I’m not enough of a seer to [...]