Glory to the allknowing essayist

Re “It’s past time for me to say this,” Opinion, March 6

The conundrum so deftly outlined by author and essayist Bob Brody on the Los Angeles Times’ op-ed page has struck a nerve somewhere.

Let’s shift the paradigm, redefine the rules and in the process change the very equation. Although the implications are nothing short of infinitesimal, the rewards are here, now and hands-on — if you do the math.

Hang the prestigious Washington think tank. Thanks to Brody’s clearheaded exhortation, I can say that, as for myself, I’ll do him one better and quintuple down on the path to actually doing something important. Steve Bischoff

Ventura

I thoroughly enjoyed 97% of Brody’s op-ed piece in The Times. I had no idea op-ed writers were so usually brilliant! He knows Latin and just about everything else!

He hit the nail on most of the head, and it was a pleasure to read such a well thought out (hyphens or no hyphens?) opinion piece. I feel mostly better about the future now that Brody has answered a lot of my questions about things.

Oh, and I agree with his wife about him being the issue. Patti Steffen

Thousand Oaks

I’m a newspaper letter to the editor. My response to the issue broached in a recent op-ed article in The Times is pointed and timely. It is also an exercise in pithiness.

Whether it’s food for thought for the one who penned the op-ed article — or other readers or writers — is mostly beside the point. What’s most gratifying is to see me published in a major metropolitan newspaper and, therefore, considered worthy of being read by whomever has access to my “150 words or less.” Ben Miles

Huntington Beach