Dude-studier

In another, \"On the White Russian,\" Craig N. Owens -- he teaches literature and writing at Drake University in Des Moines -- divides the world into two factions: those who float the cream on their White Russians (\"the floaters\") and those who mix it in (\"the homogenizers\"). He praises the Dude's \"middle way,\" avoiding the hassle of \"shaking and straining.\" 

At times Mr. Owens sounds as if he's been hitting the minibar himself. He writes about how Leon Trotsky is \"doubly implicated\" in the White Russian, first because he helped defeat the anti-Communist White Russian army during the Russian civil war, and second because he later fled to Mexico, \"Kahlúa's country of origin.\" Mr. Owens suggests that the Dude has a kind of \"Trotskian positionality.\"