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We're not even touching this one ...

Dearest Dig,

Your mid-March cover gave me pause, but I stopped myself from writing to you, because, well, I don't do that anymore. For three weeks with it pinned up by my bed, I eyed that horse's ass. I have to say it now:

Horse fetishists!

Do you know how many horse-butt-molestation incidents there are in this country each year? On average, 3.2—but several more, I'd guess, go unreported. That's a lot of horse butt touching. Too much! Sure, they have lustrous, silky tails and excessively bulbous haunches—and those tarted-up circus ponies are just asking for it, obviously—but you've made a venus hottentott of an entire species. It's the "every horse" who will suffer—roaming some stretch of land, grazing, oblivious to the nearby urbanites who, pumped up on horse-butt porn, go on an equine-objectification spree all over the countryside. My god. Doesn't that just make your heart race with sympathy? I hope you and I, Dig, understand each other better.

And what about moose? Now, they're fucking hot.

xo,

A FAN

VIA POSTCARDS

Eat your heart out, Steinbeck.

Dear Dig,

Gabriel Camacho was definitely the man to go to for your seasonal worker investigative report (feature, 4.30.08). Way to go. Could you find out whatever happened to Michael Bianco, the man who hired undocumented workers under US government contract and mistreated them?

This piece is especially relevant with May Day. Thank you.

I never got into Grapes of Wrath in high school (got a "D"), but was able to appreciate it as a masterpiece in my "grown-up" years. We are reliving the migrant worker era; South Americans are the new "Okies."

Something you didn't mention was those who can afford a weekend in Martha's Vineyard or P-town are unwilling to shell out another buck per margarita in places where residents and citizens are employed. Maybe Cape entrepreneurs can put up signs reporting, "Unemployed laborers are commuted/moved here for your summer consumption pleasure."

Best,

BILL SPIRITO

BOSTON

A picture's worth a thousand of these suckers.

Dear Dig,

Tak Toyoshima's 4.16.08 "Secret Asian Man" was brilliant; in one simple, wordless strip he captured perfectly the poignant absurdity of our whacked-out "global economy." With the sad demise of the AZN cable network, there are few media outlets that feature the unfiltered, unsanitized work of Asian-American artists. Props to the Dig for giving Tak a platform.

CHARLES

CAMBRIDGE

Errata: Last week's Soapbox (4.30.08), Our Dumb-Shit Quick-Fix World, was written by the talented Brennon Slattery and not our scum-sucking news editor whose name was erroneously in the byline.