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Travelogue: Harriet and Monkey Leave the Midwest for South Carolina Sunshine

September 17, 2009 in Different Places

From time to time, Harriet and Monkey run away from their respective homes. For the most part, this time away is refreshing for both women, as well as the families they leave behind.

Toward the end of the long, cold, gray, windy, snowy, icy, slushy, muddy, and all-around annoying winter, Harriet begins internet-casting-about for a warm, sunny place to visit—not too far away, on an ocean, somewhere she has never before visited.

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The Summer Civility Died

September 14, 2009 in Health Care Crisis, Rants, republicans

We Americans are not particularly noted for our civility and decorum. As travelers abroad we are considered loud and rude.

We respect “straight shooters” in conversation and don’t much care for those who “beat around the bush.”   (Read the sexual politics into that sentence as you wish.)

But we still try to pay some lip service to the idea of just being polite if only for the sake of our mothers.

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