Barackomania: Local paper covers haircut

January 17, 5:04 PMSacramento Environmental News ExaminerHarry Osibin

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The Sacramento Bee showcased on its homepage Saturday a feature article on the growing popularity of the haircut sported by the soon-to-be Chief Executive. 

The Bee reported that Obama's barber is known only as Zariff and says the cut costs $21.  The reporter then visited numerous barbers in Sacramento to get comments from cutters about the cut.  Yes, indeed, customers have come in to ask for some Barack barbering.

Since I needed a haircut for the local Inaugural festivities, I went to my barber, Master Barber Melton, who cuts hair in a shop a few doors down from a Starbucks.  Isn't anyplace a few doors down from a Starbucks?

He said that customers have come in asking for the Obama cut.  It's actually just a business cut.  So I got the tonsorial work done, an Obama cut, and although Melton did a great job, the finished result looks way different on the President-elect than it does on me.  He has more hair.

I paid less than $21 and will return in six weeks.

The barber shop, Uncle Jed's Cut Hut, has a bin for recycling newspaper and uses CFC-free spray products.