This is in response to the editorial printed Oct. 30. The editorial writer’s point of view would be expressed more cogently if he had learned to spell. It’s vise, not vice.

Vice: a moral depravity or corruption – illegal drugs and pornography are vices.

Vise: a tool with two jaws that close to hold work; to hold, force, or squeeze with or as if with a vise.

Nevermind the mixed metaphor of how something balloons inside a crippling vice [sic].

I am more and more dismayed and appalled by the recent downturn in the standards of journalism at the Sun Journal. Writers who can’t write clearly; editors who can’t express an opinion, the free rein (n.b.: rein not reign) given to Mark LaFlamme’s rants; the lurid, front-page coverage – four days above the fold! – of a dog hit by a car; the Perspective section moved to the back of local news.

And then there’s the B section. Trees died to bring us what the moron in the street thinks, other people’s sex lives, this week’s C-minus movie opening, and a summary of articles in other tabloids, all displayed in garish, pointless graphic disarray. I’ve seen car wrecks with more artistry.

If I wanted to read a tabloid, I’d buy the National Enquirer. They do it better.

Suzan Wachs Katzir, Lewiston