I know that: Eastern Oregon is super consertaive. we need conservatives, too. There are lots of crap-tastic laws that liberals have suggested that conservatives have blocked. yay for having a spectrum of political views, not everyone is the same voting block! yay balance of power!

You, as a young person, can and do get internet. Older folks everywhere often feel put off by it so they read print newpapers. Guess what? those folks vote, too. In almost all the places (of which there are lots) I've visited in the midwest mainly have usa today as the only option. MAYBE a local newspaper, but most…

And thank you for being there! They really need folks like you to broaden their experiences and opinions. I have to say, fly over states DO have some of the nicest people. I really enjoyed visiting Nebraska as a kid, folks were nice, there was a sense of community and it felt safe.

I am sorry for hurting your feeling. I was being tongue in cheek: a caricature of curmudgeonly Oregonian. You know we used to have a sign on the border with California that said, "Thanks for your visit! Please don't stay!" There is also an area in southern Oregon/ Northern California that actually DID secede from the…

You guys can break off, too leaving the south and midwest to wallow in their filth. see, the way i see it their policies do not contend with a global market AND due to not givng a shit about the environment they are also poisoning themselves if they don't reach out beyond their borders. West coast and NE lift up…

But wait, I thought guys were all cool with lesbians? I mean, gay guys, ew yuck, scary, but lesbians are "hot"..if not, why so much lesbian porn for straight guys?

Thats it. I'm never leaving the West Coast. Infact, I'm thinking we really need to break away from the Union.

me three! and I wondered what a uterus had to do with "Dirty Dancing."

Thanks! hes a Jacob sheep, boys and girls have horns and spots! here have a video of our first lamb the day she was born. [www.youtube.com]

It wont let me post pics, but how about this? [www.flickr.com]

Nice to hear Tracy is actually enjoying her surprise baby. Sometimes I wonder with the "MotherLoad" articles, but yes, the shitty shit is shit but then there are those times that melt your heart. I learned this not through my own children, but raising my sisters babies. Little bastards made me actually like children…

So odd to me. Its a natural function, so i do it without a big scene. (Okay, sometimes I'll say, "Man! I feel 10 lbs lighter!" but thats it) I'll even shit in a public restroom if the urge comes. Whatevah.

Bah! My lambs are way cuter.

the lambs are probably "bummers" which means mom didn't want them. Since most sheep twin or triple sometimes mom will keep one or two of the babies and neglect the other, so if you don't want them to starve to death then you gotta take them in and bottle feed them. Thus, they end up inside. First time moms sometimes…

Meh ring is meh. I would love it, though, if they were trollin' us all and those were actually quartz crystals. Nice for a crystal ring, boring for a diamond.

Dear Jez,

I feel sorry for people who get offended at jokes like "#popstarsdonteat" It must be miserable to see everything as "hurting the children."

He has reservations about that method, too (toxic shock), but i think its what we will have to do. But its soooo much, and we're so poor! not as poor as we'll be with babies, though.

My fiance is concerned about the effects of the pill on me (I recently stopped the PP free pills after a few too many complications. three weeks after no baby pills I have lots of energy again, need only 5 hours of sleep and have a libido again, wee! guess they DID effect me), so he offer to get a vasectamy because he…

MY 10 yo niece recently secretly checked out Twilight: Breakingdawn, and while I wasn't thrilled she was reading a book with such messed up relationship patterns (particularly since it kinda mimics her mothers relationships so it might normalize stalking and abuse in her eyes), I don't want to see such books banned. I…