Tigers on TV
Editor, Daily News:
On Sunday, while lying on the couch recuperating from surgery, I was flipping channels: 5 then 20 then 5 then 20 etc.
This went on for a good five or six hours.
From Channel 5 I learned that one simply does not challenge Tiger Woods to a Sunday duel as did Rory Sabbatini. It took only a few holes for a relentless Tiger to skewer poor Rory like a chunk of South African lamb ready for the grill.
However, the lesson from Channel 20 was even more brutal — how to run a good old-fashioned lynching. You see, I was watching a rerun of the Collier County School Board skewering poor Ray Baker, and what a fine job they did.
I know little about Baker or the five board members, so I have no ax to grind. Who knows? The board may even have done the right thing. But what great melodrama they provided: the snarling Richard Calabrese, the simpering, indecisive Linda Abbott, the bellicose Kathleen Curatolo, and even Chairman Steve Donovan with his embarrassing slip of the tongue.
There was even a Cindy Sheehan look-alike, complete with surgical mask, who emerged from the crowd at every opportunity decrying pesticide use in schools.
I find it hard to believe that the three lynchers had no contact or discussion before the meeting. Of course, that would be a violation of the law.
B.B./Lely
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To B.B. in Lely:
I think you are a big doo-doo head.
Signed,
Dennis Thompson
Doctorite in Ed Psych
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