I like to preceed the letters with the items that prompted them, but on this page I have not done so because I didn't save them. I think I wrote more letters pre-2006 but I didn't save them. In 2013 I played my Jesus card again, this time in Huntsville, Alabama, where sermon-on-the-mount Christians seem to be outnumbered, as in Hagerstown, by man-is-the-head ten-commandment people, who, as pointed out by Kurt Vonnegut, follow Moses, not Jesus.

The county, though urban, is dominated by Republicans. Yet it is not hard to find people who are Democratic, liberal -- and freethinking people too -- to associate with. With a Republican legislature in place during redistricting, gerrymandering minimized the influence of the large black minority and of Democrats even further, giving the impression in elections of a smaller number of Democratic residents than really exist.

Huntsville Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR NOV 12, 1999

Hostage to Noise

Huntsville Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR MAY 29, 2004
Vague Enemies (on immigratants)

Huntsville Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR DEC 25, 2005

Fragile Philosophies (on religious education)

Huntsville Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR NOV 28, 2006

True Americans (on Peace Network demonstrations)

A small but dedicated knot of people, many of my acquaintance, gathered every Saturday morning at a major intersection in Huntsville (most recently at the corner of Airport Road and Whitesburg Drive) to protest the trumped-up Iraq war. They carried signs that they displayed to passing traffic. A clueless letter-writer had previously written that peace demonstrations were about as unamerican and unpatriotic as he could imagine. I begged to differ, and in a sarcastic way.

Huntsville Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR JULY 2, 2007

Docile Editorials, Reporting (on the framing of Gov. Don Siegelman)

Huntsville Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR OCT 1, 2008

Bush's Third Term (on a future vice-president Palin)

Huntsville Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR MAY 31, 2013

WWJD? Be nicer to those seeking immigration reform
(on immigrants and Regions Bank wariness)

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