Criticism of low game turn-out should be directed at UA football players, not the fans

Dear Mr. Lund: I was just reading your Tuesday column ("UA football needs you in the seats") online.

I agree that Arizona fans should support all UA teams, but do realize that it is so hard to get excited about a football team who often shows a lack of interest in themselves. I traveled to the Wisconsin game and I was honestly embarrassed for the UA. [Read article]

I have a good liberal friend ÷ we'll call him Kendrick Wilson ÷ who has been pitching Janet Napolitano to me for months. He claims that, as a liberal, it is my duty to vote for the only viable leftist candidate in the gubernatorial race. He frames the issue ÷ as do most political activists ÷ as a simple case of us vs. them, good vs. evil, liberal vs. conservative.

That logic has never appealed to me, and as I grow older and more fiercely jaded, it appalls me more and more. [Read article]

Last Thursday, Madelyne Gorman Toogood was caught on tape in the worst way. Toogood, 25, was seen beating her 4-year-old daughter, Martha, by a video surveillance camera in a northern Indiana department store parking lot. Following the incident, Toogood turned herself in to police and was promptly charged with battery to a child, a felony that could put the mother behind bars for up to three years. Toogood, also a mother of two boys, pleaded not guilty, claiming the taped incident was isolated. "Martha didn't deserve what she got. I just lost my temper," she said. If convicted, should Toogood receive a lighter sentence if this is found to be her first incident of abuse? And does this strengthen the argument for more cameras ÷ and less privacy ÷ in public areas? [Read article]