To the Editor:

 I certainly hope Santa brings Bob Wilson a “Connect the Dots” book — he could use the practice. His meandering letters are clearly out of touch with verifiable fact, but then his goal is plainly to give additional ink to some of the most flawed far-right messaging.  

To be clear, I do not fault papers for printing this tripe as it is, after all, submitted to the Opinion section. These are his opinions. Note: his opinion. I usually won’t bother to read these as they’re so clearly the conclusions of a very strange mind. I also do not usually call out letter writers by name, and will only refute the premise of their printed opinions.  

However, this person repeatedly shows his flawed and circuitous thinking with variations on quotes from what we all recognize as those notoriously twisted “urban legends” or, even worse, he offers his own invented “facts.” In short, these are in not facts.

 A friend labeled this kind of thinking as, and I quote: “off-the-shelf pundits, tend to construct these far-fetched analogies to fit presuppositions without rigorous analysis.” I agree. I don’t think any “rigor” is involved in any of Mr. Wilson’s rants.

Let’s all ask Santa to do him a favor and gift him with a new children’s “Connect the Dots” book in hopes of improving his thought processes and promote reasonable, rational and truly factual future remarks.

Shirl Ches

Franklin