Letter to local editor

Dear Editor:
The Register's "Opinion" Page on Wednesday featured two columns ("How left will Obama go?" by David Boaz of the Cato Institute and "Obama and an intellectual renaissance" by Thomas Sowell), both of which are "downers."
By running these columns, The Register has begun to adopt the current Republican strategy of solving our national crisis by putting the new party in power down, criticizing the new government before it does anything, from not moving far left enough to lambasting intellectuals. Sowel, especially, who is now almost universally negative, needs to go.
What the Republicans and Conservatives need is a constructive, positive approach to preserve some credibility with the public - and this goes for the Libertarian viewpoint also - to lay out in
detail, point by point, a forward-looking program to show what can be done to improve our country. It is not enough to talk in hifalutin' terms about smaller government and minimal taxes and personal freedom because, frankly, Republicans and Conservatives haven't stood up for any of that.
Frankly, the negativity is getting tiresome.

Letter to Editor of OC Register

Because my wife said I was always writing critical stuff, she suggested that I send a letter to the Editor of the OC Register, our local paper, about how I felt about voting today, so I sent this:

Dear Editor:
A short time ago today, I voted in Mission Viejo. There was a very short line and all of the polling place volunteers were cheerful and helpful. The voting machines had a circular wheel, like a kid's toy, and produced a paper copy that you could check. Two of the machines were down, but it didn't affect anybody. All of this made it easy to vote and I felt proud to live here in Orange County in California; but the crowning touch was that, in preparation for what might be an overflow of voters, the City split the precincts and set up a new location in a second church near where we had previously voted. I'm proud to be an American and a Californian because of all this.
Very truly yours...

It was nice to open the paper this morning and find that the OCRegister printed this today 11/05/08.