Letters to the Editor
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A loss, but good riddance given the times
Thanks for your article; I guess I'm left a little let down after reading your words. Sort of like when the WWN changed Ed Anger from a Ted-Nugent type over-the-top conservative nutcase to a sort of liberal smirker; I think you all were trying to be too clever for your own good.
Hey, times change; the WWN changed. I never went for the newer stuff you & the later staff did - the puns & turns of phrase. You didn't invent Batboy - an earlier person did - as well as the aliens backing Bill Clinton, monster rabbits, babies smuggled out of the country inside WATERMELONS(!!!) -- that was genius absurdity. I always appreciated the quotes in the articles from "a famous scientist in Sweden says that..." or other misplaced unattributable statements. Plus - a scientist 'quoted' was often the same photo of the same delusional guy - often two pix of him in the same issue for different articles; sweet! You call it right in your article when you mention our current media gets perilously close to the same kind of crap.
So Goodbye to you all, I think the WWN was a surprising success of creativity for years. Your recent years dropped way off on the laugh scale (or, tear-off-and-post-at-work-scale), but hey, look at where the US is now. Not so much to laugh or imagine about these days.
ER