Thanks a bundle for adding Cal “Doubtless” Thomas to your roster of syndicated seers. His pompous pontifications always get my bile flowing – something my endocrinologist swears is good for the digestion. And now that Anna Quindlen has filled her quota of quips, what better way to appease your right-leaning Christian readership than by substituting a scribe with his own E-mail line to God?
But seriously … I was just about to fire off an irate letter of protest over your Calfeasance, when I came upon a wonderfully refreshing riposte from a letter writer. If it takes a pen of Cal’s caliber to produce such an inspired denunciation of religious-revivalist nonsense and the no-blame narcissism that passes for social science in today’s society, so be it.
In the ongoing dumbing of America, it is reassuring to find the rare individual with the courage to use his God-given brain and say it like it is: In the final reckoning, we must all take responsibility for our own actions.
Keep ’em coming, guys, and let’s have more of these acrimonius attic debates. It was the free exchange of ideas that gave birth to this great nation, and the news media are one of the last bastions against the homogenization and barbarization of homo sapiens.
Yes, I’m willing to take my weekly dose of Cal, provided that it is followed by such cobweb-cleaning counterpunches as the one delivered by the letter writer.
GARD E. NORBERG
Dania
