In matters that don’t matter, I’m taking the side of not taking a side

In one of Santa Monica’s roughly 73,000 coffee joints, “Sara Smile” easy-listened through the speakers. A barista, who seemed to have aged out of child labor laws that morning yet apparently noticed the 1975 song’s lyrics tripping along my lips, pointedly asked, “Whose side are you on in the Hall &...

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