Generic Ranting

American Avocet. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

It's a shorebird. I don't have the equanimity of this bird today. This year I set my personal record for written and published letters to the editor. I sent four and three were published, each in a different paper. I saw something today that made me want to jump out of my chair and shout (not that I am an expert in journalism). But sometimes the holes in a story are so obvious.

"Oh no," someone close to me said. "Don't tell me you are becoming one of those people who writes letters to the editor!"

Since I set my personal record for published letters this year...there's no chance I'll get another one in any of the three papers. But I'll have to figure out an indirect way to get to the subject here...