Cradle of what?
So the 100-member Grassroots Impeach Movement (GRIM) seeks to change Carrboro’s embraceable nickname, “Paris of the Piedmont,” to “Cradle of Impeachment” until the 2008 presidential election. I declined to comment when a local reporter (not from this paper) ran the idea by me last week. My immediate reaction would not have been fit to print.

The proposed temporary nickname strikes me as a swell idea for a collectible t-shirt, and it does a fine job of portraying Carrboro as a temporarily pissed-off little town. If these are GRIM’s flimsy objectives, then let the fun begin.

Catherine DeVine
Carrboro

Hair-raising tales
A lot of people call John Edwards a hypocrite because he campaigns against poverty and lives in a big house. But this accusation makes no sense. He believes there should be no poor people, not that there should be no rich people.

Is it true that no one can be wealthy unless others are poor? Apparently, Edwards has a more optimistic view of American capitalism. He seems to believe in prosperity for all, and that some may also have more than others.

Maybe this is mistaken, or even naive. But it is not hypocrisy.

James Coley
Chapel Hil