5 Things You Can Do in Marion Now That The Caucus is Over

1. Enjoy fewer political discussions at the dinner table.

If your family has been watching the months long countdown to the Iowa Caucus then your likely to know which candidate they prefer, why they prefer them, and why you are such an idiot for disagreeing with them. Now you can let the subtle or overt philosophical disagreements you have settle their way back into everyday life, and out of politics. This means less arguing over whether life begins and conception and more arguing about at what stage precise stage a garbage is considered "full."

There is more to Iowa than b-roll of wind rolling over cornfields and cows ... standing still. We've been as a boring whitewash state that has little to no relevence to the outside world. That won't change anytime soon, but at least we won't have to hear about it until around October 2015.

You may wish you have more friends than you do, but you won't miss the daily calls from your old pal, Mitt Romney. As for the mailers, I propose a mass incineration on the grounds of . We can bond over roasting marshmallows and the charred remains of super PAC funds.

No more cringing when you hear what your friend really thinks about "the gays." This also opens up other topics back up for discussion, like the weather, traffic and sex.

As it turns out, the world does not take a breather and hit the showers when the political mating season is in full swing. While I feel it is important that we, Marion Patch, discussed the presidential candidates and their relationship to our city, after a while it feels like analyzing the drying patterns of paint on a flattened piece of cardboard in my garage.