David Foss: Bee editors should calm down; do they know what a ‘train wreck’ looks like?

Re “Convention looks like an angry animal” (Page 3B, July 20): I sat down to write a hateful reply to your mean-spirited, hostile, ugly display of an editorial in the Our View of July 20th. I decided replying in kind would only shine a light on hateful rhetoric that readers and writers of the same would enjoy. I must commend the wordsmith who came up with the term “retrograde shibboleths” and “meme.” I am curious, though, about what a “train wreck” actually looks like.

If any of your board members have witnessed one, I would be quite interested to know. As far as the “throes of an angry animal,” fortunately for the animal, they don’t share this destructive emotion with us. Their instinctual wisdom has no room for self-destruction. I suggest the board members read Animal Farm and study and observe animals more closely. Perhaps that would temper your anger, leading to more constructive prose.

Editor’s note: Opinions page editor Mike Dunbar, as a young reporter, covered a train derailment in Indiana; he was given a twisted rail spike from the scene as a souvenir.

This story was originally published August 17, 2016 at 3:50 PM with the headline "David Foss: Bee editors should calm down; do they know what a ‘train wreck’ looks like?."