This document includes what I think is a fairly complete collection of my various expressions of opinion to various publications over the past couple of years. Some of the history they address is long gone and forgotten (Admiral Bobby Inman's withdrawal from public life, for instance). Some is quite up-to-date as I write these lines (the O.J. Simpson brouhaha).
Titles sometimes contain a person's name, and always have a subject name. When the person's name is present, that means that my letter was written in reply to, or was inspired by, the person named; if no name is present, the letter was inspired by a situation and/or a news article or series of news articles. The original letters and articles aren't available, and even if I had them I couldn't reproduce them here without violating the original writers' copyright. You'll just have to deduce what they said from my replies. For similar reasons you are also deprived of the pleasure of reading the authors' replies to me, though these are, generally, rare (the only one I can remember off-hand was an answering broadside from Charles V. Hughes, who was then the Republican candidate for 7th Congressional District, and could not leave my charges unanswered). (N.B. more have appeared since I wrote the above...)
Most of these letters, if I sent them, were published; where I could find clippings (mainly, only recent letters) I've included the publication dates. Some letters, written in a fit, were never sent; I've included them here as well, with an indication of the fact. Almost all letters that were sent during the period included here were faxed from my living-room computer, including those going overseas.
As of December 29, 1995, I've broken this file down into six-month subfiles; at 129K it was just getting too long for convenient loading. This is reflected in the table of contents, which allows you to go to a period file or to a particular letter within that file.
Go here for letters from the first half of 1994
On the Purported Financial Malfeasance of Bill ClintonA Newspaper's Treatment of a Reader's Letter StyleAlbert Koedding on Admiral Bobby InmanOn Klingon and EsperantoOn Ziad Fazah's Ideal LanguageOn Oliver North's Senate CampaignOn Eric Korn's "Review" of Pierre Janton's BookJerry B. Mitchell on the Port Chicago MutinyGreg Dubs on Language in the U.S.A.On the Kerrigan-Harding brouhahaNicholas Bray On EsperantoOn the Sins of Bill ClintonStephen Wade on Reforms in Spanish SpellingDana M. Studer on Religion in Public SchoolsRaymond James on EsperantoWendy Ashby and Ron Clark on GlosaTerry McMahon on EsperantoPaul Lewis on the North Korean Nuclear ProgramOn the Klingon Bible Translation ProjectGarry Davis on the InternetGo here for letters from the second half of 1994Adam Bauman on Pornography and the InternetCharles V. Hughes on Congressman George Miller and Tax HikesOn the Invasion of HaitiDr. Karl Steiner on a European LanguageOn the English Language in the WorldJoe Saumarez Smith on EsperantoOn Cuts in ServicesOn Tax CutsAnn Philips on ImmigrantsGo here for letters from the first half of 1995Martha Siegel on Regulating the NetBeverley Meyer on Russian AggressionRabbi Abraham Cooper on Regulating the NetCarryl Baldwin on HiroshimaDavid Broder on Mark Hatfield's Vote on the Balanced Budget AmendmentJames Jungles on Environmental ProtectionAly Colon on EsperantoOn Security Against Terrorism after the Oklahoma City BombingOn Fifty Years of Relations with VietnamPete Laurence on VietnamPaul McCracken on Foreign Language TV ChannelsHelmut Kohl on EsperantoClifton Amsbury on Bosnian MoslemsOn Desecration of the U.S. FlagGo here for letters from the second half of 1995On Flag Burning Yet AgainOn the UnabomberFrederick Lang on Evolution vs. CreationismBruce Young on Evolution vs. CreationismBob Greene on U.S. EnglishOn Establishing a Third PartyOn the O.J. Simpson VerdictPhil Faillace on HalloweenThomas Sowell on Language on the InternetJefferson Kinney on the Language of ImmigrantsEd Rounds on the U.S. Budget DeficitRonald Johnson on Social SecurityOn the Proliferation of the World Wide WebGene Scott on Non-Remembrance of Pearl HarborJohn Wolfe on Water ResourcesJames F. Jungles on American Forces in BosniaGo here for letters from the first half of 1996Negley Monet on Donald J. HarlowOn Steve Forbes' Flat Tax ProposalPaul T. Klobas on Pearl HarborWalter Mossberg and John Byczkowski on Netscape's "Cookies"Paul Aubin on DNAOn Stopping Illegal ImmigrationNegley Monet on the Times' new formatAndrew Pohlman on the Internet as a "Dangerous Neighborhood"Thomas Sowell on the dangers of Bill Clinton's second termHarold R. Barrett on Gasoline PricesNegley Monet on MunchhausenMarge Donovan on PhonicsGene Scott on the First AmendmentGo here for letters from the second half of 1996Charles V. Hughes on Rep. George Miller's 'Lies'Gavin Edwards on Planned LanguagesHarold Barrett on Liberals and the ConstitutionRon Slade on the Stoning Death of a BearPat Truly on Dole, Clinton, and PardonsCarsten Jensen on language and literature
Don Harlow <don@donh.vip.best.com>