Ed, I just want to say that L.A. Parker must live with his head in a hole like an ostrich. His article today about upgrading the playground equipment at Cadwalader Park just made me laugh. It has been done 100 times before. It’s put in, and within a week it’s destroyed. What does he plan that they do? Does he want to keep putting new equipment in every week? Maybe he would like to pay for that since it is his concern.

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Yeah, shame on him for envisioning a neighborhood where kids have a place to play and residents step up to take care of their surroundings. What a nutjob. Why can’t he just get with the program and wallow in depression, despair and self-hatred and give in to evil and pessimism? —Ed. Note