{"id":177773,"date":"2019-06-13T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T00:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/06\/13\/as-if-there-wasnt-enough-political-sh-going-down-in-iowa\/"},"modified":"2019-06-13T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T00:43:00","slug":"as-if-there-wasnt-enough-political-sh-going-down-in-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/06\/13\/as-if-there-wasnt-enough-political-sh-going-down-in-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"As if There Wasn&#8217;t Enough Political Sh%$ Going Down in Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It also appears that the state is <a href=\"https:\/\/littlevillagemag.com\/peak-pig-in-iowa-leads-to-a-staggering-amount-of-shit-in-the-state\/\">drowning in literal pig excrement as well<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">It\u2019s probably not an accomplishment state officials will want to boast about, but Iowa out-performs the rest of the country when it comes to producing sh%$. Not \u201csh%$\u201d in any metaphorical sense, but literal fecal waste. <\/p>\n<p>Chris Jones, a research engineer and an adjunct associate professor at the University of Iowa, IIHR (UI\u2019s hydroscience and engineering center), has done the math, and published the results on his blog about water quality. Iowa, with a population of 3.2 million, produces more than twice the amount of fecal waste per square mile than California, which has almost 40 million people. <\/p>\n<p>But what\u2019s propelled Iowa to the top of the sh%$ list isn\u2019t people, it\u2019s pigs. <\/p>\n<p>Last year, Iowa hit \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/littlevillagemag.com\/iowa-reaches-peak-pig\/\">peak pig<\/a>,\u201d with 23.6 million pigs, the most ever recorded in any state. When Iowa set that record in August, North Carolina, the state that ranks second in swine, only had 9.4 million. And pigs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iihr.uiowa.edu\/cjones\/iowas-real-population\/\">Jones explained<\/a> on his blog, produce much more waste than humans. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\"> <\/span>(<i>%$ mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>Between the chickensh%$ politics of the caucuses, and the real sh%$ of the pigs, I do not want to be downwind of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Rather ironically, this actually mirrors a Will Rogers quip regarding the juxtaposition of the Chicago stockyards and the Democratic Convention made many years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It also appears that the state is drowning in literal pig excrement as well: It\u2019s probably not an accomplishment state officials will want to boast about, but Iowa out-performs the rest of the country when it comes to producing sh%$. Not \u201csh%$\u201d in any metaphorical sense, but literal fecal waste. Chris Jones, a research engineer &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[525,389,386,374,421],"class_list":["post-177773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-agriculture","tag-history","tag-humor","tag-politics","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}