Write Angry

I now know the secret to getting a letter-to-the-editor printed by the Mercury News: write angry. Up until now I've had no success in getting reasonably-argued missives into print. On Wednesday, my wife and I wrote an angry letter in response to Cindy Sheehan's arrest at the State of the Union Address. The good news is that the paper printed the letter. The bad news is that they printed it three days after I sent it, after the DC cops admitted that they made a mistake. (Which doesn't excuse their action, but which does make it harder to justify angry rhetoric!)