Editor:
Did you actually think “Ignorant Little Snots,” the title you gave my letter last week, was clever? Your saucy, tongue-in-cheek style does not fly with children, and the Mattole School student body is deeply insulted.
These students, who happen to be extremely intelligent and independent-minded, also pointed out to me that deliberately missing the point of a serious comment from a reader is terrible journalism. Please apologize to the Mattole school children in print, and try to soften their justifiable anger by sending them a letter as well.
Ellen Taylor, Petrolia
This article appears in Dead at 45.
If they favor the pot status quo with all of its consequences, because of self-interest, they are snots. Maybe not ignorant, but snots. If they got those ideas from their parents, the parents are big snots. Same thing goes for Republican $250k+ families who are hoping that daddy keeps his Bush tax break.
But TE, they don’t favor the pot status quo with all its consequences because of self interest. They favor halting the disasterous spread of green weeding into our society because the pot status quo is bad enough – “legalized” more would be worse. It would catapult more growers into “big snots.” That would not “stimulate the economy,” it would continue the violence and degrade society further.
If they want to stop the “disastrous spread of green weeding into our society” why are they growing the stuff in the first place? Existing evidence indicates that legalization would not continue the violence. Seagrams does business differently than Al Capone did, and that is a good thing.
Once again the Journal acts in poor taste. Compounding the first error with the title “Uppity Too.”
Funny because the tone of the Journal writers can often be described as uppity, snotty, and sadly ignorant.
Journal, you have two things going for you. First off it costs nothing to read. Secondly we can see what’s happening in which venue around Humboldt. Other than that you really are a terrible publication with some misguided agenda to be edgy. Except you you don’t know how to be edgy, and it ends up seeming forced, petty, nasty, and stupid.
I miss Edge City Magazine! And Panache!
Seriously, you forgot the best use for the NCJ. Takes two to start a good fire in the morning.
Don’t look for improvements until the publishers finally accept that the quality of their paper has declined drastically under the editorship of the the middling Hank Simms.
Ignorant, petty little snot is what comes to mind every time I encounter one of Hank’s “Aren’t-I-OH-SO-clever” snide remarks.