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Here in Iowa, there’s no doubt we have an inferiority complex. Our neighbors in Illinois have Chicago and have produced several Presidents; Wisconsin has cheese and produces serial killers in abundance; Minnesota has the Vikings..okay, maybe we don’t even have the biggest inferiority complex. But we do have corporate jerks in disproportionate abundance.

The father and son [Jack and Peter DeCoster] at the center of this summer’s salmonella outbreak tried to shift responsibility for the problems at their Iowa egg farms, at one point blaming the Iowa weather, as lawmakers grilled them today on the cause of the contamination.

The weather, really? Really:

He blamed the Iowa weather for delaying the removal of manure that was piled so high it forced open the doors of hen houses, providing an easy way for rodents to infect the barns.

Yeah, y’know it has rained and snowed in Iowa this year, but living here, by and large it isn’t exactly Pakistan…except apparently at DeCoster farms.