The day after the MySpace/MTV event with John McCain, Mary Katherine Ham, her cameraman Matt and I got to walk around snowy, windy downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. If you want a tour of the signs of the season – political, not Christmas or Hannukah – check out my NRO piece and the cool illustration on the homepage.
A taste:
Both there, and at Joe Kelly’s (another diner down the street) a traveling companion and I ordered a “Texas burger.” In both Elm Street dining establishments, we learned that what makes it a “Texas” burger is… cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion and mayonnaise. No barbeque sauce, chili, pepper jack cheese – no glimpse of something or anything distinctly southwestern, but apparently a few vegetables are sufficient to earn the label “Texan” here. No wonder Phil Gramm ran into trouble in this state; too much of a culture clash.