Reader feedbag

In a world of troubles, the editorquemada still want to know the readership figures, endlessly pressing, and among the faithful, we can count these:

A transplanted Okie in the wild Tennessee hills reports a threat that the Republic of Texas will secede, figuring they have 65 percent of the defense industry, enough oil and natural gas reserves and most of the refineries, computer, medical, and universities to keep them free of having to live in the United States of Obamaland who is just like Stalin and Hitler put together, except not even the good parts about Hitler. But don't misunderstand, my Okie friend is not subscribing, although he is silent on the issue of his neighbors.

A national union president with an interest in the bright rays of truth that the Beagle proclaims reports, "I continue to be an avid reader."

A craftsman with a penchant for paronomasia writes, "The good doctor is with his Righteous brethren who have hijacked education 'reform' to bash yet another union so that dewey-eyed ivy leaguers can teach for the the 2 or 3 years needed to pad a grad school application and leave their children reading and writing at a grade level no higher than before."

An Iowa boy in Wisconsin passes on Dan Rostenkowski's apologia, but it ain't much.