http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/02/21/the-saddest-map-in-america Comments On: "The Saddest Map in America" by David Schmader en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 25 May 2013 22:00:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Steve French]]> Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:59:51 -0800 The Stranger
But everyone is missing the true shining star of this map: Oklahoma! "Sate fair"? That is fucking adorable!
Posted by Ben]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:36:45 -0800 The Stranger Posted by chi_type]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:08:47 -0800 The Stranger Posted by pat L]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:54:04 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fnarf]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:47:25 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Jared Bascomb]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:30:50 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:19:14 -0800 The Stranger
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/fasd/data.html
Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:16:36 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:12:42 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fnarf]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:59:25 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Pope Peabrain]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:49:22 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Pope Peabrain]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:46:02 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Stabs]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:32:17 -0800 The Stranger Posted by IndianaHaze]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:39:17 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Wack_Daniels]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:26:06 -0800 The Stranger Posted by queenmoonracer]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:28:16 -0800 The Stranger Posted by of course]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:44:46 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Dougsf]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:41:07 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Sargon Bighorn]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:36:27 -0800 The Stranger
Walmart figures highly in these states because Walmart is pretty much the only leisure-time activity available to the people there, everything else of interest or value there having been driven out...by Walmart. I have personal experience in some of these places, and Walmart is often literally the only place OPEN there; if you don't want to go to Walmart, you have to stay home (watch out for Indianans behind the sofa, though).

This is a feedback loop, because living in a world where Walmart is the only leisure-time option is a huge factor in creating the shoddy, fearful, poverty-stricken, uneducated, diminished-expectations worldview that Republicans thrive on. In a closed-off Walmart universe, it's easy to believe that nameless immigrants and welfare recipients are are the ones keeping you down and preventing you from having it off with that 300-pound hottie on a bed of hoarded paper towels.
Posted by Fnarf]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:33:31 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Cato the Younger Younger]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:30:09 -0800 The Stranger Posted by lizlemon]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:19:33 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Grant Brissey, Emeritus]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:08:53 -0800 The Stranger
I'm not looking for a hookup but I've been searching for "24" in missed connections at least once a week for years now because the posts are so fun to read (Plus it only requires typing 2 characters. I like my voyeurism to be efficient). There are about 20 ads per week for 24 Hour Fitness in the Bay Area alone and they are almost exclusively m4m. The shower ones are my favorite.
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