Americans are so polite All that “Mr President”, the gracious ante-bellum South, the way their troops in WWII always wore their shirt-sleeves down, the prevalence of “Sir” and “Ma’am” not only from a maître d’, the way musicians brought on stage are introduced as “Miss” or “Mister”. Americans may swear in bars but, for today, I’m held by how a young black woman, seen on YouTube, pulled over for a missing light, is saying by her boyfriend’s body: “You shot four bullets into him, Sir.” Geoff Page Be advised Be advised, you smoochy duos,…
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