I immediately fired back this for Ray’s further consideration, even though I figured he was telling me he was going to block me.

"Ray,

Got your reply. Glad to be of "help."

What I THINK, Ray, is that "Lucy, you got a lot of ‘splainin to do."

First of all, Ray, I’d be FASCINATED to know WHAT, in YOUR August Wisdom and Superior Moral Position, YOU "think" "people out there who think like [me]" Think?!

What (damn a 5 W) do you "think" I am "like", Ray?

What (damn, another one) do you "think" I think?

One could argue all I did was ask you to provide the answers it is your JOB to provide and I was treated with disdain. One wonders Why (damn another one)?

I would also point out that you had an EASY way to shame me while pointing out what a good job you are doing---POINT me to WHERE (another one, damn, I’m on a roll) YOU HAVE PROVIDED this BASIC information, as is your DUTY to do! Had you done so this would be a letter of apology for my unwarranted anger. The fact you DID NOT is suggestive, reminiscent of Sodem fighting so hard NOT to reveal supposedly non-existent WMD's--if ya got nothing to hide, Ray, why the 'tude? What (!) It suggests, Ray, to any moderately intelligent consumer of news, much less someone with a smidgin of true Journalistic Instinct that you are SUPPOSED to have, is that:

1. You guys COULD get the W's if you WANTED to. Or rather, probably more accurately, you HAVE them and aren’t Printing them.

2. You DON'T, for whatever reason--what? half of 'em kinfolk?--WANT to.

3. In a post Chapaquidic (I don't know how it's spelled and don't give a damn) Post Watergate, Post Lewinski, Post Valery Plame World, this suggests YOU are ACTIVELY AIDING a COVER UP!--THAT's truly PATHETIC in a NEWSpaper, Ray!

What (!) I think, Ray, is that it looks like I really got to you. That's good and bad. I'm glad to know the 4th Estate can still be pricked, but it is unfortunate my legitimate anger, as a News Consumer, (you wanna know, what I really THINK, Ray, I think I HATE being treated like an easily misled MORON–your usual readership?)...my legitimate anger as a NEWS Consumer, at the paucity of information YOU are "supposed" to provide, and at the "pathetic" manner in which the minuscule and agendized amount you have offered was presented, seems to have MERELY angered you rather than SHAMED you into providing a better product, as it is your responsibility to do.

But to continue, I am FASCINATED that the Editor of a NEWSpaper seems to regard Journalism 101 (and I don't even have THAT, just one Teacher's Course in "Managing a Student Newspaper") as "[not] worth dignifying with answers". ‘Fraid I’d have to flunk you, Ray. Of course one could argue your response is a kind of Iconic Nietzschean Statement for The New Journalism Paradigm, a kind of profound Mini-Manifesto rating an A+.

I think you know better, Ray. The guy you sent out for the Fox Interview was pathetic, though that might not be HIS fault. You know this. 17 of anything besides School Activities in a High School your size is Gang Related Activity, you know this. Underage sex is Criminal by Law, you know this. You guys "broke" the story a MONTH ago, and have, apparently, given your response to me, added almost nothing to the 5ws since then, you know this. What I THINK, as opposed to what YOU FEEL, Ray is that YOUR COMMUNITY has a BIG PROBLEM and YOUR PAPER seems to be doing NOTHING USEFUL to try and SOLVE IT, or even GET AT or PROVIDE the information NECESSARY to solve it!

And I did you the COURTESY of emailing you with MY HOME EMAIL ADDRESS UP FRONT, Ray!

If all you want to do is beech back at me with "I'll remember you" threats, go ahead! YOU are the one responsible for the INFORMATIONAL content (and the AGENDA behind it) for YOUR paper AND THE WEB SITE.

As a CONSUMER I considered the PRODUCT you offered PATHETIC, and I told you so. If you don’t care, it would seem to me to be prima facie evidence for the Agenda School of "Journalism" (propaganda under the old speak) rather than the Traditional Concept of the Duty of the 4th Estate to INFORM!

That’s what I THINK, Ray! And I think what's TRULY PATHETIC, is that THESE GIRLS DID SOMETHING TRULY HORRIFIC! EVEN CRIMINAL given Age of Consent Laws! THEY are in DESPERATE NEED of HELP, and that HAS to INCLUDE an ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT and CHANGE OF MIND! PUBLIC SHAMING may be an ESSENTIAL ELEMENT of that Attitude Change, and if, as thinking people would consider reasonable, THE COMMUNITY needs to undergo a Paradigm shift, PUBLIC SHAMING of the COMMUNITY is DESPERATELY needed as well. That IS a Duty of the 4^th Estate!

Ray, you are offended by my questions, questions it was your DUTY to provide answers to. You choose to insult me rather than provide them, that suggests a kind of Bigotry on your part. One could cogently argue that constitutes a Vegas "Push" between us, admittedly I tend to regard Blue Staters and Yankees with a certain amount of, in my mind, well earned contempt.

You, and the Community you "serve" STILL desperately need to get your collective yshit TOGETHER, Ray. Being piszed at my temerity in challenging you to do so does not, and will not, change that."