Who would have imagined the Safeway "cafe" in Salem as a hotbed of radical ideas - on both sides. These are not state employees these are ordinary people.
A couple guys vehemently decrying the health care reform underway - "people should have known what they were getting into" over their fountain drinks.
"Honey get me a New York Times" well that should not brand them as liberal but this older couple, married I assume, looked like a grizzled couple that would be happy in a cafe in Greenwich Village.
David Brooks decries the "safe" path of Organization Kids - I love his description and it fits my non-blog reading daughter pretty well. And applies this to Elena Kagen, Obama's Supreme Court nominee.
Well, outside the elite "Acela" corridor (really David to know what that means you have to travel that train corridor - or is this a standard American noun now?) There are ordinary people who Do express strong opinions. None of them will ever be nominated to the Supreme Court.
While Fox News plays out against NPR and Organization Kids play it safe, I will try to listen more at Safeway, to the unfiltered passions of ordinary citizens.
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