Please allow the 'crazies' to speak loud and clear

Regarding the opinion piece, "Letters to the editor are important," March 27, it is the second time in the last few months that in your opinion section you are threatening to enforce the 300 words rule. Please don't--let the crazies speak loud and clear.

I hope your very capable writing staff will not take offense, but the most entertaining section is the one-issue "ranters" banning smoking worldwide, the ones who would not build another house or road, wouldn't allow another business, and the ones who want to drive their stegosaurus SUVs to another city, causing traffic jams, but talk endlessly about greening.

Where else can you find city fathers who blow $30,000 because they think Calabasas is the best city in the country? Where else can you hear Groveman, who ran on the platform of easing traffic on Mulholland and Valmar, rant about his antismoking tirades, forgetting, like all good pols, his promises.

You have a better comedy writing team than "Saturday Night Live" and you have it for free. People, especially members of the teachers union, should get double or triple the space since they are funnier than most and use better grammar and vocabulary some of the time.

NIMBYs should get pages since they are hilarious with their reasoning power, such as the ones who ride bikes Saturdays and Sundays but drive Lincoln Navigators or Cadillac Escalades on weekdays, parking at the curb on the front of Ralphs in the Commons, idling for hours, belching out smoke and snarling traffic.

I am not asking to cut down on the advertising lines or that you stop reporting the important news. Maybe adding a few pages would enlighten more people on what it means to live in the city of hypocrites.
Alex Illes
Calabasas