Our newspapers in Oklahoma are the same - one is just slightly less conservative than the other (but that doesn't mean it is more liberal)!

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wow. (about the iphone discovery also, but that is not what i am wowing about here). i am in awe of how you can live in a place that is so opposite your mindset. must feel a bit like being an alien. (not that being an alien is a bad thing)

so i should keep telling all my friends here in NY that when they think they have any idea about what the rest of the country is thinking they are certainly dead wrong, right?

if george bush is not conservative enough... wait that sounds like the beginning of a really bad joke.

I like to imagine the posts from the title alone-- When, I saw "Redder than Red", I was thinking of the South Park, where they give the dog "Red Rockets". And then, I was imagine something along the lines of Chuck, and red rockets.

I think I need sleep. Or margaritas. Or, a husband who will have sex with me.

Yeah.

I just bought a new iPhone and I have to say that I can see where someone might think it's better than sex. I have a feeling I would have trouble convincing my husband though. Maybe with enough persistence... :)

Madness husband will NEVER KNOW that the IPhone EXISTS because there is NO WAY Madness will miss out on SEX for any reason, what so ever.
And I too want to be your mom when I grow up.
Love,
Madness

I wish Northwest Florida had newspapers or.. well... news for which to write. The big story this summer was a series of unsolved goat decapitations. Seriously.

I love that your mom flipped you off . . . and that she considers a Utah paper part of the "liberal media." HAH!

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Ha! Your mom rocks! Oh, and I am going out to buy my husband an iphone right NOW.

dude - going out to get my husband an iphone RIGHT NOW.

Many, many people have that reaction to George W. Bush. Until I am presented with solid evidence to the contrary, I choose to believe that your mother's middle finger was reserved for him.

Priceless.

I came from an ultra-conservative (Southern Baptist) background, have grown decidedly less so (on both fronts), and am in a similar situation it seems of having differing ideals than those I grew up around/with. Re-connecting with former classmates on Facebook is a rather amusing remdiner of this fact.

Case in point: Today a guy I went to school with long ago, someone I haven't spoken to in, oh, 13 years or so, left a comment on my Facebook page, saying "I see you're a supporter of Barack. You can't be serious?!?!?"

I actually didn't take this so much as "You crazy liberal, what's wrong with you?" as "Wait, you did that as a JOKE, right?"

I'm worlds apart from where I grew up. Seems you are too. Nice, huh?

She would have a field day if you subscribed to the
NY Times.

Priceless. I'm from Texas, so I can commiserate. Interestingly enough, I feel partially to blame for the current President (not that I voted for him for Gov. of Texas, but still, since I live here I do feel some responsibility, or at least guilt by association).

This story kind of reminds me of my parents, who don't really see what all the negative fuss about George Bush seems to be about. He seems like such a 'regular, likeable guy' in his speeches ;) I wish they would flip the bird more often, however. It would certainly make them more entertaining.

I do feel for you. I grew up being a bit of an ideological outsider in my former hometown in Texas, but at least we have the liberal enclave of Austin, which is exactly where I took my liberal butt after college.

Ummm, the iPhone is not better than sex. Granted I can't use my wife's anatomy to locate a pizzeria via GPS or create a playlist of sexy song to NOT have sex to, but I can have sex with her. Man, I know married people are supposed to have less sex by law, but I never thought Apple would be a proponent of it.