The secret of the red states

Lileks gives a clue:

the Plumber brought along a young padawan to observe and assist. The plumber listens to the same radio station I do � in fact he noted that he heard me on the Hugh Hewitt show. When he came upstairs to ask me a question and saw me typing away, he said �Hey, are you blogging?� What a strange and wonderful life.

Odd: I�ve never hired anyone who listened to NPR on the job.

He hadn't read the Strib column, but knew him from Hugh Hewitt. I have an associate who still listens to NPR all day, and it surprises me all the time how differently from me he thinks about Iraq without really being able to explain why.