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HERO, DOUCHE

Dear City Paper, let me explain why you are lame. I recently went to Haiti to volunteer with the organization Haitian Street Kids Inc. For this fundraiser I am asking people to donate $20 to the charity HSKI in Texas. All the money will [go] toward helping 50-plus street children of Port Au Prince. On May 15, they will draw one name and I will buy that person a new 26-inch HDTV. I thought that would make a great human interest story, how one man's tax return and the kindness of Philadelphians would help out orphans.

Now that Haiti is no longer the "flavor of the month," I guess this article is not worthy of a few paragraphs. I hope these words describe the bitter taste in my mouth. I am sure it will be fashionable for you to care again when the next natural disaster strikes. By ignoring me, you will never turn my passion to indifference!

For those of you who want to help, watch my YouTube video (search RCLAYMIND/HAITI). I left out the miserable footage. To combat your lameness and to show a little love for our less fortunate brothers, print this letter in its entirety.

A moratorium on energy independence and further taxing during a heinous economy is honestly spelled out in this article ["Liberal," Naked City, Holly Otterbein, April 1]. The kicker is Hoeffel's own Obama-esque quote, "Things are going to work out."

You have to be kidding me. Maybe the change we voted for isn't what we really wanted after all.

What do you want? Ramsey is a police officer, not a damn baby-sitter, to reapply his own words ["See No Evil," Naked City, Andrew Thompson, April 1].

In our March 19 print edition, the CD review of Seabear's We Built a Fire inadvertently ran with the album art of the band's 2007 album The Ghost That Carried Us Away. City Paper regrets the error.