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12.1.03 @ 12:01AM

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(3) Recipe for Lutefisk: Place fish on board, drain liquid; cover with bread, butter and spices. Throw out fish, eat board on bread.

Happy Heritage Day!
-- Sally Haney
Cary, Illinois
(Cary is right next to Fox River Grove, home of the Norge ski-jump!)

Lawrence Henry replies:
Most Norwegians and proto-Norwegians agree about lutefisk. They agree about it; they don't eat it. And when I suggested herring to Bud, I said, "We'll put out a dish of it, nobody will eat it, and then Daddy will take it home and eat it all." He would have none of it, and in the event, spent two hours helping me cook lefse, which turned out great. Probably just as well we didn't bring the herring. Bud's friend at the next over desk was celebrating Hungary, and had brought Hungarian sauerkraut. You can imagine how many takers that had at 10:30 in the morning.

OPEN SOROS
Re: Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder's The Sorry Tale of George Soros:

Great article about Soros. I would, however, change the very last word to jackass.
-- unsigned

All the money piled on Geo Soros' back makes him a dangerous, meddling donkey. Well done, guys.
-- Gene Hauber
Meshoppen, Pennsylvania

FOX WARS
Re: Paul Beston's Garbage Time:

I completely agree with the article about Fox News and other news networks being unwilling to discuss our fallen heroes. I noticed in Italy there was a large public mourning for that country's lost soldiers. Why can't the United States do anything like that? And why hasn't President Bush gone to any of the funerals? Maybe it is security issues, but it must be very hurtful to these military families. It seems doubly crass that they spend all their time covering Kobe Bryant, Michael Jackson and Scott Peterson. Frankly, at our house, it got so disgusting that we have not been watching it at all for weeks. It is just too depressing.

Thank you for the excellent article. It gave voice to what our family was feeling.
-- Karen Barker

FINALLY, someone who writes with heart and integrity, and is not afraid to call it as he sees it. Let's hear more from this writer.
-- unsigned

While perusing one of my favorite website haunts (buzzflash.com) I came across the article by Paul Beston about the garbage at Fox "news" and have to comment on it. I find it quite amusing when one group of right-wing fanatics picks on another bunch of right wing fanatics. Beston's first mistake is the notion that FAUX is actually a legitimate news organization, which is proven false by simply watching it. Of course the biggest crime is not the daily coverage of such things as Jackson, Peterson, Blake or other trendy "real crimes." The most real crime, the one that Beston and FAUX don't have the balls to cover, or even mention, is the crime that Bush, the unelected frat boy fraud, election thief, liar, and destroyer of this nation's economy committed against this nation, by sending our troops to Iraq to die in the first place. Therein lies the real crime against humanity, notwithstanding whether Scott Peterson actually killed his wife or not. As for the "buffoonery" or "verbal flatulence" of Sean Hannity, Beston doesn't go far enough by failing to mention the fact that this is what talk radio consists of today, and Hannity is a major practitioner of the art. As for Beston, I presume that we must be constantly grieving for the loss of over 2,500 soldiers, and I do grieve for the families that have lost their brave sons and daughters so needlessly in Bushwar. However, instead of the endless pompom and flag waving that Beston wants, why not use the energy to get our troops out of Iraq, so Beston will not need to be awake at night pondering how they died in the first place, and focus the energy of who send them there to die. At least Beston got one thing right: The media's obsession with Jessica Lynch, who by her own accounts is no hero, but sadly another victim of Bushwar ,and the PR machine of Rummy's Pentagon, who desperately needed to put a human face on the quagmire in Iraq.
-- Bill Sartori
Concord, New Hampshire

Mr. Beston might handle the disgrace of watching the "fiddling while Rome burns" programming of Fox News (sic) as I do -- by never, ever watching it. And by the way, someone may want to point out to Mr. Beston that WOMEN and men are dying in Iraq.
-- Barbara Van Auken
Peoria, Illinois

Interesting article -- even more interesting is your assertion that Jessica Lynch's story is one that no one can agree on. What about Jessica's own version -- shouldn't that be the story?
-- Sandra Diesel
Albuquerque, New Mexico

GOING FOR BROOKS
Re: George Neumayr's Babbling Brooks and Reader Mail's Why Knot?:

Republicans should thank David Brooks for what he has done. Tease the morally vacuous secularists with big tent allusions while splitting the Democrat party into as many pieces as possible. The "non-same-sex marriage" spit out by one of the Democrat presidential candidates when referring to what has been traditionally called marriage was I am sure extremely popular in parts of Springfield, Missouri, but demonstrated the utter foolishness of those who take money from homosexual lobbies while pretending to be church goers to the general public. Maybe Dave would write his next bit on the wonders of race reparations. This would create even bigger mischief.
-- Clif Briner

Letter to the Editor

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