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  1. This bit of fiction is absurdly overwrought, playing to the basest of racially tinged stereotypes. As a resident of the area supposedly depicted, I laughed out loud numerous times. As is so often the case, there's much more to the story than Bill will ever know from a thoughtless, irresponsible windshield survey. Thankfully, the war mentality he proposes has not taken hold in my neighborhood and residents lead a much fuller life neither dominated nor hardly even impacted by his "rednecks versus foreigners" fantasies.

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