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NY Times silence on Bailey article ?

Since I posted the piece below, several folks contacted me to say they also sent letters to the Times editorial email. So shouldn't we expect them to have some reaction by today, one week later? I've been checking, but I can't find any response on NYTimes.com about the article either in Health or Opinion. I'll have to pick up the paper when I go out today.

Or has anyone heard any reaction at all? I send out my revised op-ed piece to some queermedia papers and some activist/author friends, but …. zip so far.

I also sent it to Jim from BearRadio.Net and he suggested I do it for Bear Soup.

It's kind of a small-b big day otherwise. Why? Maggi's left paw has been swollen and sore for a week. I keep telling her that we're looking fer th'man who shot her Pa, but she thinks the joke is not very funny. But we're a bit alarmed and Rocco's gotta work, so I have to take Maggi in to the vet in my car. My completely pet-free Passat. Oh well, another rite of fatherhood, I guess.

It feels like Mercury is retrograde…I need to get unstuck from some emotional crap that's stuck to my heel. Gotta scrape my shoes on the sidewalk some more.

Published by Ron Suresha

Ron Jackson Suresha is an editor, anthologist, and writer. He is considered an authority on emergent queer masculinities, in particular the subcultures of gay and bi male Bears and of male bisexuality. For Ron's service to the bear community, he was named "Bear of the Year" 2008. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Suresha attended the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, 1976-8), where he studied creative writing, and Vista College (Berkeley, Cal., 1989-92), where he studied American Sign Language. For more than two decades, he has worked as a freelance proofreader for trade book publishers such as Shambhala Publications. He was married in October 2004 to Rocco Russo. He is also a licensed Justice of the Peace in Connecticut, an ordained minister, ULC, and a member of the New London Green Party. Nonfiction works include Bears on Bears: Interviews & Discussions; Bi Men: Coming Out (coeditor, with Pete Chvany); Bisexual Perspectives on the Life and Work of Alfred C. Kinsey (editor). His latest book is The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin: Stories, jests, and donkey tales of the beloved Persian folk hero, published by Lethe Press.