THE NEW YORK TIMES’ LETTERS TO THE EDITOR POLICY: You can’t say The New York Times is wrong. And more on their odd editing policy here. I used to have letters in the NYT pretty regularly back in the pre-blogging days. Usually the editing was okay, but if I was expressing a criticism of the NYT’s views or a politically incorrect view generally, it did seem to become a lot more aggressive. Now that I have a blog, of course, I don’t much bother with letters to the editor — I can express my own views right here, and probably to more readers anyway.

That said, on a couple of occasions, like this one, they were pretty generous with space for politically incorrect views.