Apolitical Snobbery
Rich Lowry comments on that NY Times Mag hit piece on Houston from the weekend:
I by no means want to endorse liberal snobbery toward Houston, but I have to say the city hasn't yet grown on me. I can see where it has its charms--when friends took me to an excellent Tex-Mex place a lizard jumped out of our chips and salsa (and we were eating inside). The people seem great--I like the relaxed, beer-drinking attitude. But I'm not a fan of all the parking lots and 12-story parking garages, and all the "feeder" roads, getting on and off the freeways. But I'm returning in the fall to give a talk at a right-to-life event, so maybe it will grow on me more then...It wasn't liberal snobbery so much as bicoastal snobbery towards Houston that so many of us pointed out. Conservatives AND liberals from the east coast and west coast can both be a-holes in that regard. But I'm sure the libertarians on both coasts can at least praise the absence of zoning. :)
[Posted at 00:49 CST on 06/14/02] [Link]
