Hit Parade  "She's quite liberal, isn't she?" -- WGNU-AM's
Virginia McCarthy, questioning a caller about Elizabeth Dole
last Thursday  DOG(TOWN) DAYS: As afternoons in the barbershop
go, last Friday was a fairly light one for Luigi Scire,
providing a good 30 minutes of downtime before an old customer
dropped by for a basic trim. The break allowed him some peaceful
moments for a smoke, Judge Judy quietly playing on a small TV.
In his telltale Sicilian accent, Scire claims that people don't
talk politics all that much at the shop -- they pretty much come
in wanting a haircut. Sure, they chitchat, but they don't get
worked up about current events on the local level. At least not
ward politics, which he says has been a pretty quiet issue
despite an interesting race in the area.  "For me, it's no
difference," he says, speaking inside a barbershop that's been
in operation at 5406 Magnolia for more than 50 years. "I've got
to work, got to pay the bills." As for pols, he says,
"Politicians are politicians. They're a