Hilburn, Class of. . . .

Robert Hilburn’s review of the Rage Against the Machine performance outside Staples Center was a rant of unabashed advocacy that reads like a high schooler’s triple-spaced paper on why Rage Against the Machine is, like, his totally favorite band (“Rap-Rockers Deliver Songs of Protest,” Aug. 15).

If such is the standard for articles in The Times, I may have to return to high school to challenge the grade I got on my paper, “The Ideological Structure of the Lyrics of the Canadian Rock Trio Rush.”

JIMI HARLESS

Mission Viejo