LETTERS

Letters to the editor and various organizations.

Rita Cormulley aka Ash, passed away in my arms, Friday, April 12th 2019

I maintain this site as a memorial to my love of 25 years.

She wrote many letters with pen and paper. When we met in 1994 Ash was not interested in computers.

I finally convinced her to start writing in a word processor and eventually post her writings online.

Frustration Depository

ash's hometown paper recently joined the 21st century with the ability to respond to articles within. Here's her response to the innovation itself, as...

Mind Numb-ers

Ever the populist, ash bristles at the whiff of corporate aristocracy. When such elitism permeates an editorial defending the indefensible, ash refutes...

Quickie I

This is the first in a series of short, hopefully pithy remarks, many of which were posted on the DailyKos (liberal) website in the comments section of reader...

Down and dirty without getting dirty

ash has often answered the question, "How often do you write letters to the editor?" with the perfectly honest, "Whenever I have to." In the following instance,...

Flipping for fun but no profit

Ah, this one should be self-explanatory. Flipping, of course, is a rhetorical device in which the rebuttal takes the original author's own words and inverts...

Preach this

ash has no idea how well-known is Rabbi Mark Gellman, the Jewish half of the Jewish/Catholic comedy team of Gellman and (Father Tom) Hartmann. Presumably...