It's a D@#! Shame

A Nation's Voices: Concern and Solace, Resentment and Redemption CHICAGO, Jan. 19 � Clearly the Blind Faith Cafe was not named with today's political climate in mind. On the eve of the inauguration of a president who won office after one of the most contentious and divisive elections in memory, a more apt name for a vegetarian restaurant in the Democratic-majority suburban town of Evanston, Ill., might be the Who-Do-You-Think-You're-Kidding Cafe. "We'll have an inauguration that a lot of people are not excited about, and it's just like it's a cartoon," said Joanna Baker, a 39-year-old executive search consultant and yoga enthusiast, who was eating a barbecued seitan salad and worrying what a Bush presidency would mean for abortion rights and other issues she cares about. "It's like it's not really real." At the next table, another Democrat, Dr. Ken Moses, a 58-year-old psychologist, gave a wry grin while describing how he was adjusting to the White House transition. "I happen to be a therapist that deals with nothing but profound losses," Dr. Moses said. "The issue of disappointment and how to deal with it is my trade." Here in the Chicago area, and across the country in Miami, Denver and Boston, there is a sense that the nation has been through an extraordinary upheaval, and many people have been left a little stunned. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/20/politics/20VOIC.html?pagewanted=all