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...when Al Gore and his traveling band of populists had finished partying like movie stars and left L.A. to find some working-class people who had the good sense to live in a battleground state, I decided to do some California mingling for them - at the In-N-Out Burger on Gayley, off Wilshire Boulevard in Westwood...
...burgers at In-N-Out come standing on end in little bags - the chain has "wrapped its products in paper since 1948" - so the south end was a little soggy by the time I began to eat. But the taste was unaffected. There is a tang in the sauce (reminiscent of Big Mac sauce, except redder and more drippy), hard to describe but delightful. The buns were gently toasted, and the meat patties were thick for the genre. The large-cut lettuce -"hand-leafed every day" - was fresh, and the onions fresher. Maybe too much so; their flavor stood...
...large and enthusiastic following, who consider it one of the de rigueur stops on any SoCal trip, but I was certainly not dissatisfied, with the possible exception of the fries. But an icon is an icon, and the place, as Al Gore might say, is definitely its own burger joint: On the way out, a table of six diners of indeterminate ethnicity (the place definitely looked like America, as Mr. Clinton would say) waved to me. Would I take their picture? "There are no In-N-Outs in England, one man said by way of explanation...
Drive south from Seattle on Interstate 5, through the outer suburbs and Tacoma and a steady stream of Burger Kings, and you'll know you've nearly hit Olympia when you see exit signs for Sleater-Kinney Road. Here three women once paid their dues lugging amps and guitars to a storage space where they practiced. It was the mid-'90s, when talent scouts still scoured Seattle for the next Nirvana, handing out record deals to young men in flannel with evocative band names (remember Candlebox?). Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein, Sleater-Kinney's singer-guitarists, lacked the commercial ambition...
Other lawyers are considering suits against the alcoholic-beverage industry, which they would hold responsible for drunk-driving deaths and other alcohol-related losses, using the same "negligent marketing" allegations that have been lodged against gunmakers. What could be next? Suits against burger chains for selling foods they know are unhealthy? Suits blaming sellers of gore-drenched video games for outbreaks of youth violence? Already, in one of his more expansive moments, Scruggs has mused that Wal-Mart would be a good target because it puts so many mom-and-pop stores out of business...