COLUMNIST PSYCHS OUT READER

I have made a habit of reading the Opinion pages for about six months
now. In that time, there have been many good columns and letters I
have agreed with, many I disagreed with, and several that were just
plain loony.

Some of them have made me angry; some of them have made me wonder if
the writer was on drugs or just plain ignorant (like the writer of the
Dec. 18 letter, "Big Tobacco small potatoes compared to drugs").

I have been tempted to write about several of these, but I never did.
However, Eugene Kelly's Dec. 18 column, "Cavemen still live among us,
and in us," simply cannot be ignored. It is among the most ridiculous
and silly of all blithering idiocies I have ever read.

The writer freely mixes "Mother Earth" and "Father Sky" with Christ in
the manger, calls caves a "symbol of light," compares the workers at
Ground Zero to the three wise men, and calls the place where Christ
was born a "place of loss." If this was a letter to the editor, I
could, perhaps, pass it over. But as a column, even on the Other
Opinion page, it is truly absurd.

This "professor emeritus of psychology" is either a New-Age,
religiously all-inclusive, hippie-type mystic or a profound idiot who
does not understand his own supposed area of expertise. Let's all
gather around and worship the "religious mystery" of Ground Zero,
which he calls "our Bethlehem this year," or, better yet, let's all
get together and slap some sense into this moron.

Please tell me you won't include such a crass, equivocating
pontification of psychobabble ever again.

David Allen,
Amarillo