I must confess that I do not read every issue of The Clarion, and in this instance I believe it has given me an advantage. As I recall, the editor Kathryn Mayer wrote an editorial on April 26 encouraging us to put aside all the whining and complaining about our leadership.

Well lo and behold; this seems to be all the fuel needed to whip up the passions of those very people the editorial was written for. Rather than stopping for one nanosecond to consider if the shoe fits, over and over on these pages these ingrates continue to rage on with nonsense germane to their own special kind of logic.

The last example of this crybaby tirade missed the point entirely. That writer chafed at the notion that we should be civil, insisting that it is his duty to “question and criticize” government. Sadly he too missed the point made in the original article. And that point is the need for civility and comity in our discussions and pursuits of matters that concern our culture and how we govern ourselves.

I realize I have violated my own point in calling these dissenters crybabies and ingrates, but I’m just not politically correct and chafe at the notion that anger is somehow a virtue. Ms. Mayer told her readers to “buck up”; I encourage those shrill detractors to grow up.

Steve Brown