Enough With the Politics!
To the Editor:
Here is my answer to Charles Suhor’s answer to esteemed editor Andy Senior’s “Problem Attic” article in the April Issue. Enough already. This is a non-political publication, and we risk alienating the readers whose political positions are, no doubt, all over the map (or we risk inviting them to continue the argument forever). Many years ago I sent a letter to The American Rag mentioning my own far left position and saying we should not let political differences break up possible musical friendships, and Don Jones, from his far right position, endorsed it.
Now anyone who knows anything about me is aware of my politics so it will surprise no one if I end with this. Comes the revolution I will be Commissar of Culture, and when I am, the national anthem will be “The Teddy Bears’ Picnic,” and you will sing it.
Eliot Kenin
Martinez, CA
My initial column, in April, was to give vent to my sputterings about, among other things, a particularly beloved book of my childhood being dismissed as somehow hateful. I certainly don’t follow a certain bowtie-clad preppy TV commentator who tries to whip up everything into a culture war. I most probably shouldn’t have ventured into those waters, seeing as how the debate would continue until July (and beyond). I was merely mourning the loss of yet another thing I’ve loved. Each thing that
