Commentary: Mustaches

NPR | By Andrei Codrescu

Published January 15, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

Commentator Andrei Codrescu ponders the disappearing American mustache. He says only bad guys have them. He was born with a mustache but recently shaved it off. Now he wonders if he really is one of the bad guys.

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