Letters From the Issue of Thursday, March 29, 2007

I know it reflected an unfortunate reality, but why is it necessary to spread such vulgarity? Your paper is free, accessible to any grade-school student who would take in such obscenities and likely copy them. Thus whatever point you made criticizing the policeman's uncivilized behavior is undercut by the fact that you have replicated it thousands of times in the streets of the Valley. I'm no prude. All I'm saying is that with every crude drawing such as that one, our civility is diminished, and our discourse is dipped into the gutter.

I ask that you please think a little more about the images you're adding to the collective consciousness and what impact they may have on our society at large.
Don Davis, Surprise