For those of you who know the Politics & Prose bookstore in Washington DC, the cover story about it in today’s Wall Street Journal will no doubt strike many as highlarious. The store is run by — what some might call — snobby old reds. The owners of P&P let the employees boss them around. And the fifty employees were scandalized to discover that a prospective new owner might want to run the place… like a business. The buyer had to work in mufti as a staffer for a long time in order to grasp the psychological complexities of the staff (think Robert Redford in the first part of “Brubaker.”). The hopeful buyer’s plan almost succeeded until he dared kiss an employee on the cheek at her birthday party. For this effrontery, the staff finally rebelled and put the kibosh on the sale.