Editor:
The comic strip by Mielke from your Sept. 16 issue is perfect. How innocently the two scenarios are juxtaposed … just like in real life! Every time I have a cynical thought about the inherent denials in so many of our beliefs — how about abortion foes who set mouse traps? — I realize that nobody wants to listen to my long expositions comparing one “unacceptable” practice with an everyday act whose equivalence most people would angrily deny. The succinct wit of a graphic like Mielke’s is all that is needed.
That said, I agree with your letter-writers last week that the cover photo in question (“Hooked,” Sept. 9) was repulsive … but a graphic close-up of an all-American dinner plate would be just as bad.
Laura Cooskey, Petrolia
This article appears in Bigfoot and the Trolls.
