Opinion: In today’s pages: Honking, shopping, and tacos
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Columnist Joel Stein has a taco with Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.):
Carlos O’Kelly’s makes the finest Mexican food with an Irish flair of any chain restaurant in Iowa. The enchiladas came with a sort of hollandaise sauce that constituted a greater insult to Mexicans than anything Tancredo has ever said. Tancredo, who is a very likable, polite man, gave the food a very generous C+. ‘I was sick we couldn’t go to Mami’s. I heard it was good,’ he said. ‘But if they’re going to boycott America, I’m going to boycott Mami’s.’ Looking at my enchiladas, he sighed. ‘For all I know, this place is owned by a big liberal.’ A big liberal who hates food.Our waiter, Josh, was one of the nicest, most incompetent servers either of us had ever encountered. He kept running away in the middle of our orders, apparently distracted by either Mexican or Irish things. I told Tancredo that I wished we were at an L.A. restaurant with a Mexican waiter filling our chip basket every two minutes. ‘I’m with you,’ he said. ‘These people that come to our country are generally hard workers, and bless them for it.’
British designer Jonathan Barnbrook says there’s no purchase necessary on Black Friday.
The editorial board laments the impact of Alzheimer’s on Sandra Day O’Connor, and on the country. It also asks who Rudy Giuliani would nominate to the Supreme Court bench. And editorial researcher Swati Pandey wants a louder honk.
Readers discuss the upcoming Middle East talks. Anaheim’s Phil Karmelich says, ‘[Israeli Prime Minister Ehud] Olmert is engaging in a propaganda campaign to keep Americans believing that Israel wants peace.’