Dear Chicago Reader,
Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites »
I went online, and I am unwilling to pay 15 bucks a month to tell Cecil he is wrong once, when it is unlikely to occur in my lifetime again.
Very truly yours,
Alan, I admire your having the guts to write a letter like this and include your institutional affiliation. Hopefully the tenure committee, and for that matter the admissions office, won’t hold it against you. Since my initial stab at an explanation evidently went wide, see if my second attempt in this week’s column comes any closer. If still no go, you might want to check out the discussion on the Straight Dope Message board at www.straightdope.com. (Incidentally, the SDMB costs $15 per year, not per month, if you want to post, but merely reading it is free.) But be assured, regardless of what the treadmill is up to, the plane advances down the runway and takes off.
