I noticed today that the Winston-Salem Journal had zero letters to the editor in today’s (August 9, 2007) print edition.  They had five opinion columns and their own two editorial opinions but not one letter from the unwashed masses.  Honestly it kind of depressed me since the letters are usually as effective at getting my blood flowing in the morning as my 12 cups of coffee. (They did run Cal Thomas who also gets me riled up, but it’s not as fun because he’s not half as bright as the folks here in Winston-Salem and his English ain’t half as goodly either).  I’m wondering if the Journal’s just hit a summer lull in submissions.  I hope that’s the case because I fear that since 95% of the letters seem to come from the same seven people and all those people seem to be in the "AARP members for over years club", that maybe we’ve had a migration from op-ed to the best read page in every paper: the obits.  Like I said I hope it’s just a lull because I really enjoy reading those folks.

Of course if the WSJ runs out of commenters I can now go to Google News and get all the comments I want.  Google has started accepting comments by email, reviewing them and then attaching them to news stories if they’re deemed appropriate.  I expect it will get entertaining fast.