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Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Mon Oct 31 17:44:14 PDT 2011


On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:24:13 -0400 Julio Huato <juliohuato at gmail.com> wrote:


> Carrol,
>
> It'd be great to hear you say I'm sorry every now and then.

We've had a nice spate of apologies lately, which does us all credit. But let's not turn it into an orgy. Amurrica has developed a cult of the apology lately to which only Japan's bears any comparison. And *demanding* an apology is a very Amurrican wrinkle.

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