As for Best Best & Krieger LLP (whatever LLP means), their
letter proves again that no position is so ludicrous that a
lawyer cannot be paid to represent it. Their legal analysis is
as nonsensical as the Alien and Sedition Acts are dead. The
Onion, the Phil Hendrie Show on radio, and many other examples
suffice to show that parody and made-up quotations are clearly
protected by the First Amendment with no necessity of
identifying them as parodies for any feebleminded who may read
them.  So keep on with “SD on the QT.” It may be the most
valuable thing you publish, especially when you make fun of
those who consider themselves above anyone laughing at them.  J.
F. Dolan via email  Secret Sewage  In the mid-1980s, I found a
horrible mass of sewage flotsam and jetsam washed up on the
shoreline of Ocean Beach. As a senior city lifeguard, I was
incensed that huge amounts of plastic syringes, tampon
inserters, used prophylactics, and various hospital and sewage
debris was contaminating our beaches. I collected a sam