Your view?

For years I've saved some of the best and brightest of e-mails sent by readers. I was thinking they'd make for a nice coffee table book. Some of the ones I received while working at the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin in Ontario -- wow.

Instead of hording them for another project I'll never be serious about, I'm posting the first in an occasional series. This one from Joshua Jengel, who's "just curious" after reading today's story re: The Bill-board:

I'm just curious, isn't China her own country? We make not like how their government runs, but who are we to tell them how to behave? How would the countries involved in the war with Iraq feel if China excluded them from the Olympics? Not too happy I imagine. How these reporters are behaving is childish and I am appalled that the city allowed the billboard to go up. That is a direct insult to China and it makes me ashamed to be an American. It is not up to us to tell the rest of the world how to live. We barely can keep our own country from falling apart. It's high time that we start paying attention to what is happening between these borders and spending a little less time policing parts of the world that we don't agree with. Especially since the UNiCEF report in February ranks the U.S. at twentieth out of twenty-one countries when it comes to the welfare and education of its' children.

Actually Joshua, I'm just curious if you wouldn't be happier in China? Or perhaps in Vladimir Putin's New Russian Republic of Vladimir Putin presented by Vladimir Putin? Not that you're the only one here "ashamed" and "appalled" by the Constitution and its various amendments.