It has been brought to my attention that this week’s Critical Overview contains an embarrassing gaffe. Evidently Eli Sanders’s beloved Darcy Burner is not running for the Washington State Senate, as I had stated, but rather the U.S. House of Representatives. Egads. Fifty lashes with a wet noodle.

While errors such as this are inexcusable, I shall nonetheless offer up the following defense: Who of sane—or more precisely, sober—mind can be expected to read through, much less comprehend, The Stranger’s news section on a weekly basis? Especially w/r/t a piece penned by Mr. Sanders, whose blather is particularly inscrutable?

Also, if I may, a personal message to the fine men (all men, yes?) who write for Sound Politics, where my error was first reported: I do not work in the liberal enclave that is Seattle, Washington. I work in the original Washington; Washington D.C. (Although I make my home in Virginia.) Washington D.C. has been, save for the unpleasantness of the Clinton era, safely in Republican hands since voters wisely sent Mr. Carter packing in 1980. Seattle’s liberals may find the Burner race endlessly fascinating, but the adults at this end of the continent most assuredly do not. I have to say, after skimming your “webblog,â€� gentlemen, that you seem every bit as obsessed with Ms. Burner as Mr. Sanders and The Stranger.

Again, while this race may seem like a life-and-death struggle in the provinces, here in the capitol of the free world it is but a trifle. No one with any sense expects Mr. Reichert to be turned out of office this November, and the friends with whom I shared your url were mystified by your overreaction to Ms. Burner. The woman is not a threat, and as such, should not be treated as one. She should be treated with condescension and encouraged to look after her children, not attacked on a daily basis. You would think Ms. Burner was Hillary Clinton from the way you write about her on your internet publication. From my perspective, she’s hardly Ruth Messinger. Don’t know who she is? My point exactly, gentleman.