Other Readers Are Hot and Bothered

Your feng shui column has got to be the stupidest thing ever to sap the ink of the Real Estate section. A reader asks how to arrange a teenager’s room to facilitate studying, and Lagatree advises her to locate the northeast corner of the room and “create a feng shui enhancement with the color turquoise and the number 8.”

She then adds the powerful testimony that “a friend’s teenage daughter brought her grades up a full point about a year after hanging an eight-stone turquoise necklace on the northeast wall of her bedroom.” Right, it was the necklace that did it.

Do we really have to have this kind of idiotic mumbo jumbo on the front page of the Real Estate section? Can’t you find a better topic? How about “Mortgage Rates and the Ozone Layer” or “Choosing a Contractor Based on the Tide Level of the L.A. River”?

STEVE CHIVERS

Silver Lake

This is easily the stupidest thing I have read in a daily paper in many years . . . decades in fact. Have your editors lost their minds?

What next? A weekly column on alchemy in the science section? An occasional short piece on leeching in the health pages?

GREG BART