Tea party -- then and now

Thanks to Dan for pointing out this NPR story that takes up the symbolic and historical connections between the contemporary tea party movement and the pre-Revolutionary destruction of tea by an unruly group of Bostonians mildly disguised as Mohawks.   While this is hardly a new insight, I'm reminding while reading that history often is transformed into mythos.   When it is, the power of the story is less in the accuracy of the details than in the way it inspires imagination and action.