Across Dunn County calves are being dehorned, vaccinated, castrated, and branded. Lambs are getting their tails docked and their ears tagged. Dads and moms are buying their one-year-olds tiny cowboy boots and western shirts. Gretchen Wilson and Toby Keith can be heard from any pickup within 50 miles. And three copies of Brokeback Mountain, the award-winning Western directed by Ang Lee, sit on the shelf in the Cenex convenience store . . . alone . . . and unwatched.
Out here, it's a sad-but-true fact that only Jesus himself would dare rent one. Digital leprosy, maybe? Even other DVDs are phobic. I swore I saw King Kong squirm to the far side of his skyscraper and Reese Witherspoon reach for her pocket bible.
"It's like that, and that's the way it is."
-Run-DMC (1983)
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