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My editor-publisher in the newspaper where I send my opinion letters does not publish my views anymore.  Why?  Have I suddenly become crazy, or an idiot to him?  By the way, I don’t even know if he is a man, or a mouse.  Last month, all my ideas and opinions were published (online and in print) almost daily.  Oh, I feel I was taken for a ride.  Two weeks have passed and I don’t even have one message coming out.

I hope you read this, editor.  You are not infallible, as you think you are.  One proof is this—one original message I sent to you last month was:   “. . .  What makes it disgusting and ugly is the people themselves . . .”  But what appeared online and in print was: “. . .  What makes it disgusting and ugly are the people themselves. . .”  That is stupidly wrong—your using of “are.”  “What” is definitely established as singular because it is followed by a singular verb.  Therefore, the next verb must also be singular, although it is followed by the plural predicate nominative “people.”  Now you can hang yourself on the nearest banana tree around you, but before you do that, cancel my membership in that moronic “inbox” brigade.