I'm all buzzed on wine and Buffy-love, but I had to post this. As I mentioned earlier, the SF Chron finally got wise and dumped "Family Circus," a cartoon whose fans have probably all died by now. Anyways, the paper printed a bunch of letters in response to the cartoon dumping and somebody posted this absolutely brilliant letter:

Editor -- I'm disappointed to see that The Chronicle has caved in to conservative pressure and dropped the hard-hitting, controversial Family Circus.

It's true that Bil Keane's savage, unrelenting critique of the American dream can be hard to take, and some might say his doctrinaire Maoism is out of place in 2002 -- but what else is freedom of speech about if not allowing a place for views that outrage the mainstream?

JEFF CARLOCK
Berkeley

So funny for so many reasons......