From a reader:

Jonah,
The other night I was at a local bookstore in Madison, Wisconsin looking to pick up The Road to Serfdom (a great book which I am enjoying very much but that is not pertinent to this e mail) anyway as I was standing in line I couldn’t help but notice the man in front of me had a copy of Atlas Shrugged, and the man in front of him had a Milton Friedman book. Than I remembered that there were several thousand people at the tea party in Madison. Could this be a sign of things to come in the Peoples Republic of Madison? I thought it was an interesting experience that I felt I should pass along.

Alas, I fear this is too hopeful, but it’s nice to imagine.