What follows is a LTE that I saw the other day in our local paper. While I live in a very reddish part of a definitely bluish purple state, our city is blessed with what most consider a fairly liberal newspaper. On the editorial page they seem to go overboard sometimes with the whole fair and balanced thing... the results often are better satirical flights of fantasy than I can ever dream up...
I am always stunned by the things that some of my fellow citizens actually seem to believe... at the risk of disclosing the location of my underground bunker, let me present to you this little gem...
Liberalization has taken its toll on society
Back in the late 1960s, on the first day of class in my freshman beginning course for physics majors at (insert college here), our instructor, a doctorate in physics, told a girl to leave and said that women did not belong in physics.
Things have changed since and not for the better.
Since the liberalization that swept through our society in the 1960s and 1970s, we have been degenerating morally at even a faster rate than our advances in technology.
Abortion, homosexuality, fornication, adultery, women's liberation, broken homes, drug use, etc. have all taken their toll, and we are soon all going to have to pay the price. Our borders (and soon all of our defense mechanisms) are now open to invaders to come in and destroy us and remove us from the land for all of our sins against God. One day in the not too distant future, when we see the towering mushroom clouds rising over our major cities, I am sure we will all agree that there are some others who don't belong in physics either -- our enemies. ( Name and location redacted out of mercy )
After I picked my jaw up from the floor and my laughter subsided, my sense of conscience and civic responsibility unfortunately set in... I determined that this letter to the editor could not possibly go unanswered...
So, how about it, all you Kossack wordsmiths out there... a little help please... I feel like I'm trying to write a haiku in attempting to address everything in 300 words or less...
Or, perhaps the better course would be just to share with everybody here for an uncomfortable laugh, and forget about it...