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The NY Times and Its Diner Obsession by tristero

The NY Times and Its Diner Obsession 

by tristero

Diner wisdom? Seriously? Fucking again????

At the diner she manages in the heart of New Mexico’s oil country, Joni Moorhead talks to roughnecks all day long about potholed roads, cramped lodging camps, soaring rents — and state politics. 

“I’d load up my guns for the fighting if we could just secede and join Texas…”

Oh, how colorful is the beating heart of America’s hinterlands when it comes with a side of fries.

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