Letters are posted as we receive them during the week, and before they are printed in the paper, so check back frequently to see new letters. If you'd like to send a letter to the editor, use this postmarks submission form, or email your letter directly to mail@austinchronicle.com. Thanks for your patience.

Hey Doc,
    I think you're hysterical. Your rapportee (I can't spell worth a shit) is mighty crunchy. I wonder at times if being the Luv Doc is just a front for your social commentary, your satire, and you should just step into being the Austin Hunter S. Thompson that you truly are. Tell the guy to stick to "Dear Abby." ["Luv Doc: Embarrassing Stupidity," Jan. 11.] Or maybe, get a blow job. Or go online for touchy-feely stuff if he can't handle pithy.

Dear Luv Doc,
    I read your reasoned response to unfounded criticism today and remain firmly in your court ["Luv Doc: Embarrassing Stupidity," Jan. 11]. Those brave individuals who dare enter the arena of human relationships are bound to be attacked by those who sit on the sidelines and jeer. Sure, you may hit a couple of rim shots at times, but I find your responses to be both humorous and spot-on most of the time.
    I am reminded of the quote from Theodore Roosevelt:
    “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
    Carry on, Soldier.