Odds and ends, 6/21/07

This is how I feel about a lot of modern environmentalism, namely the last panel:

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Sen. Robert C. Byrd reached a milestone today. Today, Byrd cast his 18,000 roll call vote in th Senate.

We and a lot of other newspapers throughout the state ran an article last week about how frail Byrd has become physically in the past year, particularly since his wife died. Some folks will say a frail Robert C. Byrd is more valuable than a healthy anyone else. I don't know that I buy that, but I have to say Byrd is probably better in that seat than about anyone else I can think of. Whether that says something good about Byrd or bad about the rest of the political talent pool in West Virginia, or any combination thereof, is for the reader to decide.

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The number of letters to the editor we receive has dropped off in recent weeks. Could be the weather. Could be the lack of a news event that grabs interest, although we've had a lot of traffic on our forum about the mayor's veto. Or it could be the fact that people can now post comments anonymously on the Internet and not have to worry about the bother and wait of getting a letter to the editor published in the print paper.