Ok, here’s something new. I’ve been toying with the idea for months, and people have been nagging me to do so…so here goes. I’m going to start a new weekly post based on emails that I get from random people. Perhaps some background is needed here.

My job allows me the opportunity to communicate with many people around the world on a daily basis. I get some very “interesting” emails from people, in a wide ranging array of emotions (read: mostly pissed-off or confused). So bizarre or humorous are some of these, that I think it funny to post (anonymously) the contents of their letter. Hopefully, some of these will be as pee-in-your-pants hilarious or scratch-your-head odd for you as they are for me.

These are the types of emails I live to get.

Week of March 7-11, 2005.

This week’s email is an early entry, coming only on Tuesday morning. However, I think it’s safe to say that it’ll be hard to beat this one:

My daughter has been accepted to [censored] and another college and we are trying to firm up her decision on which one to attend. We sent in the deposit for [censored] but, after seeing this article on [online publication], I am not at all sure she will be attending. I am an alum of [censored] and so are many of my family; therefore I am extremely disappointed that the radicalization of the college is taking place. I am not interested in my daughter being indocrinated by a bunch of elitists who couldn’t fight their way out of a paper bag in the real world. Please respond immediately to the accusations in this article, without attacking the authors or the website I found it on. I am well aware of David Horowitz and thank God we have people like him revealing the corruption in the minds of professors who think they are little gods in their little ivory towers. Yes, I am prejudiced against these men, so please use intelligent arguments to defend these professors on your campus, not ad hominemn attacks. Thank you.

Thanks lady. For a while there, I thought I was going crazy. I know that I’m perfectly, blissfully sane now thanks to you and your logic. I hope your daughter lets you make all of her life decisions for her, based on your political leanings.