Right. Dawn Ostroff deserves her own circle of Hell for keeping this show on the air despite its steep decline in quality and consistently low ratings.

The Dawn Ostroff circle of hell should be located somewhere between the 23rd circle (well-meaning idiots who voted for Nader in 2000) and the 25th (people who don't pull far enough into the intersection when making a left turn, thereby preventing the people behind them from making the turn as well).

Spider, I don't think the conversation went like that. I suspect it was more like this: "Rob, your show's ratings are in the shitter, and we're having trouble making the argument to Les and the guys over at Viacom that the show should be kept on the air. If you can trim the budget a little, and make the show a little more accessible to first-time viewers, we'll put it on after 'Gilmore Girls' and maybe it will finally take off."

But the show didn't take off. It didn't attract new viewers, and it lost some long-time fans (like me). I blame Rob Thomas because he and his staff actually mapped out and wrote the episodes. The mini-arcs were flat out boring. Ooh, Mercer and Moe were the rapists! Who the hell cares?

Note: I'm not Dawn Ostroff, or a CW exec, or an exec at all, and I don't know why I'm being all Devil's advocate about this, except that I think that people blaming the CW for Rob Thomas' poor creative choices are delusional and annoying.

I expect that anyone who doesn't want to know the ending will avoid this letters page anyway ... but do you have to put spoilers in the subject line?

What are you, twelve?

If your son was being traumatized by the biting, I'd say that you should be firm and file a formal complaint with the director of the daycare center.

But he's not being traumatized by the biting. Is it worth taking him out of a day care situation he likes, because of something that doesn't seem to bother him that much? Not all kids need to be treated like hothouse flowers. I have three very tough kids of my own (only the oldest was a biter, and she grew out of it quickly, thank God).

Of course, there's the larger issue of the day care workers brushing off your concerns -- I can see how that would be frustrating. You might want to take *that* up with the director, if it bothers you.