Couldn't help but think of Cromwell when reading this article:
By
Adrian Higgins November 7 at 4:28 PM
Riding lawn mowers are still popular, and, yes, most of them are driven by older men. The object of all their smoke and noise may be a manicured lawn, but the process clings tightly to the American ideals of power, control, self-sufficiency and freedom.
In the 21st century, the last place a red-blooded man can be a cowboy is on the suburban lawn, riding his steed across the plains to round up his herd of grass. The lawn tractor “is the American Dream,” said Jon Traunfeld, director of the University of Maryland’s Home and Garden Information Center.
No wonder, then, that the libertarian-minded junior senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul, would live in a place named Bowling Green and that his time away from Washington would include a lawn-clipping detail astride his riding mower.