Les Fleener: His corn farm has seen better days
The people of the Midwest are up in arms.
Literally.
They are tired of seeing their way of life ruined by modernization and NAFTA.
They are taking their fight to the streets.
"Six degrees of separation," said farmer Ed Brown of Salisbury, Ind. "Shit, man only one degree of separation from a small-time hog farmer like me and the man in the White House."
President Clinton was unavailable for comment. He was vacationing in Big Sur, Calif., with his daughter Chelsea and a few of her Stanford classmates.
Rain on the scarecrow.
Blood on the plow.
You get the picture.
Brian Schultz is a graduate student in journalism at Indiana University. He likes Lake County sweet corn. He is a wiz at design. His name is also helping me fill space for this dummy Web site.
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