i'm going to be straight with you. i don't like iowa. i've only been to iowa twice,and both times it was by accident. here's my beef with iowa:
row after row of corn scares me. when i'm driving down the road and there's a corn field on my left and a corn field on my right, it freaks me out. iowa corn fields...spooky.
as a kid i had to take the iowa standard test. the thinking behind this test? "kids in iowa are so smart we should test all the other stupid midwestern kids against iowa kids standards." extensive tests aren't fun, and this test reeked of elitism.
the iowa caucus. once again the rest of the world hangs on iowa.
iowa, you just aren't that special in my book.
p.s. i'm crossing my fingers that john edwards makes it though the caucus. he has an earnest quality that is rare in presidential candidates.
Thursday, January 3, 2008
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You hurt Iowa's feelings.
Is it the Children of the Corn, red headed step child, Malachi thing that is holding you back from embracing the pure ecumenical, white, midwestern wholesome-ness?
Ehhh, I can take em or leave them. They only matter every 4 years. If it wasn't for Caucus Season I would forget they existed.
When I was checking out my nephew's school last month, I saw something about this Iowa test. It seemed so bizarre to me...kids in North Carolina taking some test named after Iowa? And then I heard something else about it later on and now you say that you took it, too. Did I ever take it but don't remember? Weird!
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