More controversy

[lizwilliams]

R has reminded me of another stage in manufacturing controversy: the made-up letter. He says that when he was a student in Ireland in the 70s, he and his household spent a worrying amount of time making up ranting letters for the Cork Examiner ("There was none of this sex in Ireland before the Television came!!!" - Outraged Mother of Thirteen Children). Even more worrying, the Cork Examiner printed all of them. Perhaps no one else wrote in.

I plan to follow the same principles, so Locus had better keep their eyes peeled.