from the April 19, 1998 Des Moines Register....

Opinon/Letters section


Do we need this?

"Twinkling Diamonds in the Sky?" read the headline in the April 8 Register

I can see it all now . . . wannabe miners letting their hair and whiskers grow, purchasing pickaxes, mules, canteens and a can of chaw, trying to book a seat on a spacecraft headed for BPM 37093, followed by a gaggle of groupies.

Don't forget the space guns. You may have to defend your claim.

We could have done without this knowledge. Let the chips fall where they may, I say.

--- Virginia Butorac,
802 S.E. 80th Ave., Des Moines.