Chicken Fried Everything » Politics http://www.chickenfriedeverything.com A journal of fruitlessness Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:21:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Welcome to Texas http://www.chickenfriedeverything.com/2009/09/03/welcome-to-texas/ http://www.chickenfriedeverything.com/2009/09/03/welcome-to-texas/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:11:07 +0000 ben http://chickenfriedeverything.com/?p=358 Continue reading →
]]> People who have never visited Austin often don’t realize that it is a pretty progressive city, a blue dot in an otherwise deeply red state. And for those of us who live here, you can often go days at a time without thinking about the the fact that Rick Perry is your governor.

But even in Austin, reminders of what Sarah Palin might call “the real Texas” are everywhere. I spotted this truck on the way to work this morning.

truck

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