Love/Hate Mail
Hit him when he’s down
That’s hilarious how you compare Bush to Gomer Pyle in your Boner Awards (Dec. 19), but honestly, do you really think that substantiates a vote for the “Original Boner” himself, Al Gore? Please....
Greg Moore
info2@bigmeankitty.com (Nashville)
Just wondering
About the article, “The Rising Price of Mediocrity” (Dec. 19), my question is, how many of the kids that graduate from a state-funded school actually stay in the state to repay some of the money in taxes that helped to educate them? And how many out-of-state kids do we educate for no return on investment?
Naif Salloum
NSalloum@aol.com (Franklin)
But did you consider?
Your cover story on WWTN’s success (Dec. 12) failed to mention that George Plaster insists upon boycotting both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open Tennis Championships despite the presence of Nashville juniors Brian Baker and Carly Gullickson, who have competed the past two years. None of Plaster’s staff follows tennis closely enough to talk with professional credibility, and they fail to see that when Nashville’s sons and daughters are competing at the world’s highest levels of tennis, that’s something worth talking about. SportsNight is truly where provincialism trumps professionalism hands down.
Gene A. Russell
401 Second Ave. S., Nashville
Time will tell
What kind of TDOT commissioner will Gerald Nicely be? I’ll be watching the Scene for an in-depth story. From housing to roads, from finding people a place to live to getting them to work on time—is he the right man?
Glenn Berry
gb1701@chartertn.net (Johnson City)
A regular Orson Welles
Thank you very much for Mr. Doerschuk’s great tongue-in-cheek article on “vintage” piano tuning (“Blinded by Science,” Dec. 19). It’s the best bit of left-handed humor to come down the pike since Orson Welles gave us a chill with his mock Martian invasion radio program years ago. Unfortunately, many people took the Welles offering seriously, causing widespread panic. Happily for us, though, the thought of having our pianos tuned in equal temperament isn’t going to send anyone screaming into the streets. Especially effective was Mr. Doerschuk’s omission of the fact that equal temperament was devised and used early in the 19th century, qualifying it, too, as a “vintage” tuning. Especially amusing was his use of “endorsements” of local piano artists and musicians, much as Ford uses country music stars to tempt us to buy pickup trucks! It was a wonderfully composed and entertaining farce. Please keep up the good work!
John D. Fox
Foxpianocraft@aol.com (Springfield)
Intellectual inconsistency
If reports are accurate that Vanderbilt professor Jonathan Farley believes Confederate soldiers should have been executed, then I have trouble reconciling these sentiments with the fact that Farley was a Green Party candidate in this year’s congressional elections.
My understanding is that opposition to the death penalty is one of the core principles of the Green platform. It’s somewhat disheartening to hear the idea of executions under any circumstances being endorsed (albeit retrospectively) by a representative of this progressive, human rights-oriented party.
Tom Johnson
P.O. Box 121486, Nashville
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