Dear Miss Hammond,

Will you be receiving a tax return this year? If so, go home and adopt a homeless kittie or two with it and get off your soapbox. No one cares about your moral outrage over a fat man’s battle with obesity. You should be more outraged over the other places our hard-earned tax dollars go: bloated military contracts, ineffective national programs, and pointless government studies. You don’t know what I’m talking about? Then exercise some of your journalism training MY hard-earned tax dollars are subsidizing and do a little research. You have a responsibility as a student journalist to enlighten the rest of the student body. If you had offered one fact in your column concerning Mr. Deuel’s “obligation” and how he “fouled out,” maybe you wouldn’t have come across as a callous, immature little girl who would rather help a fluffy “kittie” than a real person with real problems. Shame on you Miss Hammond, I hope your next two years as a journalism major teach you something about making a difference in the world instead of ridiculing differences within it.

Hallie ThomasSioux Falls, SD