Letters to the Editor

Karen Wibrew
Wheat Ridge

Cleaning up:We feel it is important that we clarify the information about Russell Enloe's drug use in "American Ace." If we were to assign a percentage grade to the amount of time Russell was clean in the fifteen years we knew him, it would be about 95-97 percent. The article made it sound as if his drug use was constant. Russell worked extremely hard to stay clean even when he was on prescription pain medication. He even tried to wean himself off of these doctor-prescribed meds. Despite his drug use being overstated, we feel "American Ace" pretty accurately described Russell and his situation.

Everyone fails at times in life. Russell had a big heart that was good. We knew he would never allow one of his failures to hurt anyone. If Russell had loved himself as much as his family and friends, he would still be with us. Russell was a very caring and close friend. We even entrusted him to watch our children. There will always be an empty space in our lives the size of Russell -- and as we've always said, he was larger than life.

Les and Joan Cooper
Lakewood

Hot under the collar:Regarding "The Skeptic," in the June 29 issue:

Westword is my favorite mag and Alan Prendergast my favorite writer there. But I must admit I tore out the Bill Gray article on global warming to savor it, then just couldn't read it. It was just too colossally off the mark!

On the face of it, the Earth goes through its natural cycles, and the hand of man has but a negligible -- if any -- mark in what is writ. But let's look at the other side of the matter. According to Edgar Cayce and many others of metaphysical persuasion, the Earth is alive. It is a bundle of consciousness. And what we do, as mankind, affects it as well as our sun -- just as certainly as if it had two legs. We're doing just about everything wrong, and I think the Earth reacts. I think it shakes off from time to time like a dog would shed a disturbing flea: earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, hurricanes -- and can you spell tsunami?

Our entire solar system, ruled by its sun, consists of a very delicate balance or equation that doesn't suffer fools lightly. And I believe Dr. Gray is being foolish in the limited scope of his geophysical assessment. The worst is yet to come.

Gene Edwards
Colorado Springs