Letters to the Editor
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One Question Resolved
Last week I wrote the real narrative was in the letters column, not the strip. One of the questions I posed was: "Will there be a backlash of Kansas defenders? Will the backlash be real or just knee-jerk contrarians?"
This plot point has been resolved - it's the knee-jerk contrarians: a. the "if you don't like it, don't read it" who cannot, of course, avoid reading the letters they don't like; and b) those so offended by people "wasting time" critiquing something trivial they waste their time denouncing this to prove their superiority. Now that I have mentioned them the snake eats its tail in the cycle of lulz-to-serious-business.
A knee jerk contrarian gets editors choice this week. Since last week was a harh put down, does this indicate Salon is being evenhanded or are they losing patience with the barrage of negative reactions? If it is the latter, then why don't they cancel the strip?