January 25, 2006
Overheard at Starbucks
"Island people are different from the rest of us."
---"Lost? ...it's the salt air."
"All around them they're reminded there are limits to private ownership. How much one man can own. They're more cooperative."
---"You do know that England still has a queen and inbred royalty?
The richest woman in the world?"
"You've never lived in small-town America? We grew up cursing the Company or the Gumn't not Her Majesty or the idiot laard. Oppression came from far away. Without a human face."
---"Damn Pinkertons?"
"I don't know, it's changed. It's different there now, since NAFTA & terrorism, everyone wants to be a Pinkerton."
---"Oppression always has a human face. It's always personal."