◆ Scott Maxwell: Readers talk lobbyists, Disney, more.

Scott, Thanks for your column, “My daughter is beautiful. She doesn’t need ‘retouching.’” It happened to us, too. My daughter has a beauty mark on her cheek. Without any input from us, the company that took her senior-year picture photo-shopped it out. Our daughter was in disbelief ! She was like: “That’s not me.” Dan

Dan, if we wonder why kids grow up with body-image issues, we need look no further than the adults who offer kids the chance to have their birthmarks removed or eyeballs whitened.

Eye whitening ???? Michele Yes, Michele, this is apparently a problem most kids never knew they had. Fortunately, we have companies that will both point out their eyeball flaws and offer to fix them … for a $20 “retouching” fee.

Right on target. We need Mr. Rogers to come back singing, “I Like You As You Are” to our children. Ned

Alas, Ned, I fear Mr. Rogers would get slaughtered in today’s Twitter culture. Hey Scott, do everybody a favor and shut the **** up. Anthony

Hey everybody, Twitter weighs in!

Scott, after reading your column today [“Money, gifts, conflicts set the stage for Florida legislative

session”], please write a column explaining the difference between lobbying and bribery. I don’t see the difference. Patricia

Sure, Patricia. Bribery gets you imprisoned. Lobbying can get you a position on a legislator’s fundraising committee. Oh, and also weaker bribery laws.

Scott, does it ever get just too much to cover the garbage dump we call Florida politics? Or is it a good a feeling when you get to make these cockroaches scurry for cover? Ed

Ed, when Florida politicians are exposed, they don’t scurry. They file for re-election. You sure serve up some grade-A bull*** in that column of yours. Jesse

Jesse, here at the Sentinel, we pride ourselves on serving only the finest bull **** — the Chateau Lafite Rothschild of animal dung.

Great story on Steve Hudak.

[“Want to bash journalism? First I’d like you meet Steve”] The unsung heroes of America are the newspaper reporters, journalists, and editors who shine the light on truth and expose corruption, abuse, and waste. Bob

Bob, for most of my life, I’ve worked alongside journalists whose only professional goal has been to report local news and tell stories nobody else would. Let the rest of the world scream about Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. Most journalists in local newsrooms are busy covering planning and zoning meetings, local nonprofits and neighborhood issues.

I read your column about Disney’s offer to raise hourly workers’ pay 50 cents each year. Companies in this town LOVE to be lauded for their charitable contributions to

the “down and out” but HATE giving a “livable wage” to folks who get up and go to work every day and try to support themselves and their families honorably. Janet

I don’t know that Disney “hates” giving living wages. All we know is they don’t … for many workers, anyway. Nor do many tourism companies in our tourism town. I’m not scolding as much as I’m trying to explain a concept many local leaders like to ignore — basic math. If people make low wages, someone has to make up the difference — through housing subsidies, food assistance, ER visits and more. Usually that someone is the taxpayer. So if this community continues to use tax money to subsidize low-wage industries, we’ll continue to use

more money to subsidize those low-wage families’ basic living costs.

You reference families a lot. If you can’t afford one kid why have another? Kevin

Kevin, I use families as basic economic model, the same way economists do. I guess you could argue that Disney employees should know not to have children if they work there. I doubt Disney would.

That was journalism? You really are merely a typist, aren’t you? Christopher I think I tykpe qw^ite welp. Thanks for keeping focused on the progress of the train [“Today’s SunRail is just the start”]. Success won’t happen overnight, but it’s already getting better. In fact, I’m reading your article on a full SunRail car now. Nicholas

Hey, Nicholas, since you’re reading with a captive audience, can you try to sell a few more subscriptions?

Scott, that SunRail column prompted me to finally renew my OS subscription. Pete Man, that was fast.

I read your shoddy material … garbage … trying to pass it off as journalism. You’ve 100 percent lost touch with the vast majority of Americans. Rhied Rhied, when I do things, I try to do them 100 percent.