The American Spectator

br> Re: Peter Hannaford’s America Homogenized? and “Capped” letters in Reader Mail’s Bring Back the Dixie Chicks : /p> p>I am a retired, follically challenged male who lives in New York. Admittedly, not exactly fly-over country, but I am always wearing a cap, preferably with a Yankees logo on the front. You will see me at any time with my pate covered, with the following exceptions: 1. When entering a church or someone’s home, 2. When seated in the presence of a lady, 3. At the dinner table, and 4. During the playing of the national anthem. Why these exceptions? Because it is the right, polite thing to do. If you see me at the IHOP in fly-over country I will have my cap on at the counter eating alone. But in a booth in the company of my wife or anyone else, the cap will be hung up or on my knee, because that’s the way I was brought up. It wouldn’t hurt the younger generations to pick up on these gentlemanly actions. br> — Mike Minahan br> Camillus, NY /p> p> Roger Ross from Wisconsin presumed none of us would remember former Oilers coach Bum Phillips and the fact that he wouldn’t wear his cowboy hat indoors — even in the Astrodome. Well, I remember. Bum always said his mama taught him not to wear a hat indoors. I also recall that when his son, Wade Phillips, was named a head coach Bum was asked what Wade learned from “his tutelage.” It was reported that Bum replied, “I never tuteled the boy.” br> — Terry Sautter br> Wood Ranch, CA