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Satire: No charges for Iowa man arrested after he dressed up as Mr Freeze and shouted nonconsensual polar vortex puns in public

Satire site The Sioux Falls Headliner has a funny alternate-universe story in which an unnamed man was taken into custody after he dressed up as Arnold Schwarzenegger in his role as Mr Freeze in 1997's Batman and Robin, drove to the local Walmart, and stood in the parking lot, hollering cold-weather puns at passersby.

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Court strikes down Iowa’s unconstitutional ag-gag law

"Ag-gag" laws -- which ban the collection of evidence of wrongdoing on farms, from animal cruelty to food-safety violations -- are a sterling example of how monopolism perpetuates itself by taking over the political process.

As American agribusiness has grown ever-more concentrated -- while antitrust regulators looked the other way, embracing the Reagan-era doctrine of ...

Google’s Cloud Spanner database adds new features and regions

Cloud Spanner, Google’s globally distributed relational database service, is getting a bit more distributed today with the launch of a new region and new ways to set up multi-region configurations. The service is also getting a new feature that gives developers deeper insights into their most resource-consuming queries. With this update, Google is adding to ...

The next big restaurant chain may not own any kitchens

If investors at some of the biggest technology companies are right, the next big restaurant chain could have no kitchens of its own. These venture capitalists think the same forces that have transformed transportation, media, retail and logistics will also work their way through prepared food businesses. The Battle Is For The Customer Interface Investors ...

Iowa gun distributor sends free AR-15s to North Dakota high schools

After the city of Bismark, ND voted to spend $25,000 to equip school "resource officers" (a euphemism for "uniformed, armed police officers") with AR-15s, an Iowa gun distributor called Brownells decided to donate the assault weapons to the school district.

School resource officers are frequently cited as the linchpin of the school-to-prison pipeline, are notoriously ...

Devin Nunes’s much-touted California farm secretly moved to Iowa in 2006, in a district dependent on undocumented workers

California Republican Congressman Devin Nunes (previously) has been one of Trump's most ardent supporters, who has used his office as Head of the House Intelligence Committee to promote the evidence-free conspiracy theory that Obama's FBI spied on the Trump campaign.

Historically, Nunes has set himself apart from his fellow Republicans: willing to compromise on ...

Eco-Friendly Kitchen Decorating Ideas at Craft Fairs

04.30.2009 · Posted in Family Articles

This month we are celebrating Earth Day. Some of us are already familiar with this celebration because it is always in the newspapers and in the Internet. It is a worldwide campaign that aims to promote public awareness on how to care for our planet. The media plays a huge role in celebrating Earth Day ...

Love your Kitchens, save the Earth!

04.30.2009 · Posted in Family Articles

This piece is written to give us the part two of the "Earth Day Celebration at our own kitchens". Earth Day is widely publicized nowadays, thanks to the media. Earth Day is a day wherein we dedicate our hands into caring for our environment and keeping it safe. At Iowa craft fairs, they provide free ...