Ok, We’ve Moved On

I really enjoy your magazine—except for the fact that you apparently worship the insufferably smug Al Franken as some kind of god [“Al Franken Is a Big Fat Genius,” October]. He impresses me not at all, and never has. I never thought Franken and Davis were even remotely amusing when they were on Saturday Night Live. This man has no talent whatsoever, except for being an irritant. I agree with Peter Kind of St. Paul [Letters, October], who wrote you about the childish Limbaugh-Franken feud. After Franken’s book Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations came out, some friends of Limbaugh’s wrote their rebuttal, Al Franken Is a Buck-Toothed Moron and Other Observations. While I agree with both assessments, I find this infantilism nauseous. As Kind says, neither sways my opinion. There are those of us who don’t need anyone to tell us what to think or how to live.
Jerry Westermann
Fridley