Isn't Matt Labash an entertaining fellow? His piece on the Shadow
Convention was a puerile and lazy attempt at humor mocking those who
decided to get involved. I am one of those "bleeding-ulcer
moderate[s]" and proud of it.

Labash's reputation does not precede him so I can't rejoin with
witticisms about his physical traits, style of dress, intestinal
status, age, hearing, race or any of the other attributes he uses to
describe the committed citizens who took the time to attend. But I
will let Labash's own unabashed name-dropping suffice as my lone jab
at the man. Quite pitiful.

Not all of us have left our ideals behind and many others have begun
to reflect on what was gained in the intervening decades without the
rudder provided by those ideals.

DAVE MICHON
Spooner, WI