From the electronic mailbag:

A. Birch Steen, Sir...

I accompanyed my GrandDaughter to Seattle to begin her first term at the University of Washington, and I am astounded at the beauty of this place. However, when I chanced upon the current issue [the Back to School Guide] of your consumer publication I was incensed at the lame-brain, adolescent, prurient contrivances of several of your staff (journalists?)—West, Frizelle [sic], Clement [or this, perhaps?], and Kiley in particular... Do any of these scribblers have a Daughter or GrandDaughter that they (you) would sober-mindedly share this inappropriate schlock with? Get a life, Stranger! Grow up...or get off the stage——you're polluting the MindSpace...A

Birch, of course, has already weighed in.