The American Spectator

PAT ON THE BACK br> Re: Reader Mail’s No Way to Live : /p>

After all this time I should no longer be amazed at the quality of your readership, nor the respondents’ collective smarts; it’s wonderful to know that there really are some thinking people left. Diane Smith continues to make me smile, even giggle (even though our house is probably toast, following Ike’s path thru our island neighborhood on the Gulf — gotta maintain one’s balance or sense of humor, ‘ay?). Love that Jerome Dean quote; pre-Yogi stuff. Thanks.

Those three letters on the sorry state of education? Amen. Nothing else to add. Great observations.

As an Independent with Libertarian leanings, amen (again!) to Eric Dondero’s opinions as well. The pro-life zealots’ ponderous pontificating certainly does get a little old — so sanctimonious, as if there weren’t maybe a few other compelling questions requiring answers. Tunnel-vision to the extreme it seems.

And, Sally Quinn? Consider her husband’s statements when you weigh her “thoughts.” Said Ben Bradlee, editor of the Washington Post at the Smithsonian Institution, as reported by David Brooks in the Wall Street Journal (10/5/89): “To hell with news! I’m no longer interested in news. I’m interested in causes. We don’t print the truth. We don’t pretend to print the truth. We print what people tell us. It’s up to the public to decide what’s true.”

p>Doesn’t that pretty much express what the self-appointed “elite” think of us poor unwashed masses? br> — frost /p> p> CAN’T WIN FOR LOSING