I was just reminded of this lovely exchange from No Country For Old Men (the speaker is Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, one of the three main characters of the novel):

Me and Loretta…got set next to this woman, she was the wife of somebody or other. And she kept talkin about the right wing this and the right wing that. I ain’t even sure what she meant by it. The people I know are mostly just common people. Common as dirt, as the sayin goes. I told her that and she looked at me funny. She thought I was sayin somethin bad about em, but of course that’s a high compliment in my part of the world. She kept on, kept on. Finally told me, said: I don’t like the way this country is headed. I want my granddaughter to be able to have an abortion. And I said well ma’am I don’t think you got any worries about the way the country is headed. The way I see it goin I dont have much doubt but what she’ll be able to have an abortion. I’m goin to say that not only will she be able to have an abortion, she’ll be able to have you put to sleep. Which pretty much ended the conversation.”

When I was reading No Country For Old Men I rather enjoyed Sheriff Bell’s narrative musings; others, however, not so much. I have yet to see the Coen Brothers movie adaption - at this point I’ll probably have to wait for the DVD.