Once Upon a Time in the West

A man walked into the lobby last night and, in a heavy NY accent, he says to me: "Let me ask you a question." 
The question was preambled by a short story about his trip to a nearby liquor store. While in the liquor store he saw a local walk in with a gun holstered on his hip and it blew his mind. "Is that legal here?" He wanted to know.
Yeah man, this is the wild, wild west! 
Then I told him about the time I was waiting for my kids at Little Anthony's and saw two guys with holsters on their hips, one had a gun and the other had a cell phone.

More Parties!

'In his 16 years in Congress, Republican Mickey Edwards came to a strong conclusion: Political parties are the "cancer at the heart of our democracy," he tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross.
"The problem is that when you come down to casting a vote, you're unable to reach a compromise — to sit down and talk it through and find out where there are areas of common ground so that you can build bridges and you can fund the military and you can do the things that a government has to do," he says. "When you're making those decisions based on your party membership, based on what you have decided is going to help your club win the next election, then you're really doing a disservice to your country and you're really being dishonest to your oath of office."'

This guy will never run for office as a Republican again, too bad.
I'd like to see Bill Moyers interview him, no offense to Ms Gross.
http://www.npr.org/2012/09/04/160541977/mickey-edwards-on-democracys-cancer