The Year of the Monkey

So it is for the Chinese today, as they celebrate their New Year throughout China, and in Chinatowns the world over. Here in DC, Chinatown is not what it once was. Then again, little is in the downtown of most cities. They, and waves of immigrants' sons and daughters before them, take to the suburbs for the better life, for the right to drive two miles for a quart of milk, and never to know their neighbors.