9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for March 12, 2007

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A locutionary field guide to Earth (the hard little planet with the soft center) Murder and incivility: antipodes on the spectrum of affronts to society, incivility being the most heinous. On Earth, the crime of murder is universally celebrated, a fascinating wellspring of entertainment profits that corresponds in direct proportion to the ferocity of the murder. To date, there are very few, if any, television programs, novels, stories, plays or films about incivility.