[Behind Liberal Lines]

I'm guessing that the grocery store owner or manager "outed" him- or herself, protesting the brainwashing of children at the local public school into blank check, homosexual acceptence. He or she might also have spoken up, or written an editorial revealing less than socialist credentials in the past.

More likely, sadly, is that the store owner simply happened to be a deep pocket and convenient white target. I have noticed a certain tendency in the City of Evil for the liberals to eat their own whenever it suits them and especially when race rears up. Remember the JC Knight barbershop-zoning officer controversey? The battle at the Greenstar co-op over which faction was sufficiently ideologically pure?

[Maelstrom]

No. I escaped the area in 91 and have only been forced back as of 1999.

I purposefully insult every Ithaca Journal telemarketer and regale them with the horrors of the rag they're trying to push.

Heh...at one point the editor called me and asked me to go ahead and send him the offensive portions of the paper so he could make it better.

I told him that I wouldn't even get the paper for that purpose, and reading it elsewhere (public library) is simply a waste of my time.

He couldn't pay me enough to do that job for you. Get the Ithaca Herald. Highly recommended.