Hair Apparent
October 14, 2007 at 8:00 am
Today’s New York Times:
In the beauty parlors that are among the social hubs for black women in the Carolinas, loyalties are being tested as voters here contemplate the first Democratic primary in the South.
Today’s Washington Post:
In S.C., Beauty Salons Are Also Political Soapboxes
Group-think journalism? That’s just splitting hairs.
John Plunket said,
October 14, 2007 @ 5:44 pm
They’re both just alluding to George Burns, who quipped that “It’s too bad the people who have answers to all the world’s problems also have full-time jobs as hairdressers and cab drivers.”
Ken Hahn said,
October 14, 2007 @ 5:56 pm
They were just following John Edwards around.
Neo said,
October 14, 2007 @ 9:55 pm
It’s not group-think, its just how they see the flyover residents, sittin’ in the hair salons politicin’ like the Big City folks.