...of what I was talking about recently when I said neither the left nor the right really cares about the village anymore. Here's a reminiscence about a drugstore in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, a town which was having a hard enough time before Katrina half-destroyed it.

To most of the right, this sort of business is inefficient, and rightly a victim of "the creative destruction of capitalism." To most of the left, the people of Bayou La Batre are morally retrograde hicks to be enlightened and policed.