"A Conservative Is Just a Barista Who's Been Mugged By Reality"

Jonathan Last at the Weekly Standard Blog observes that some Starbucks baristas aren't too thrilled with having to share their workplaces with smelly homeless people who take space away from paying customers:

I've never seen any polling data on this, but my guess is that Starbucks baristas probably vote, as a class, like Prius owners. I'd be pretty surprised if they didn't go 75-25 for Kerry and 85-15 for Obama. Walking these guesses a little further down the lane, I suspect that, in general, baristas are down with most of the liberal compassion agenda. Until, that is, it intersects with their world.

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(HT: Right Side of the Rainbow)