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A friend pointed out that today's Metro paper (pdf here) has a letter to the editor by someone named Matthew Rand. The letter, on page 10, splits hairs over the terms "immigrant" and "alien" and says that calling an "alien" an "immigrant" is an example of propaganda. He says that irresponsible teachers forced a propagandistic view on the seventh graders who made a mural that apparently does that word switch. (Never mind that they might simply not be of an age where they are distinguishing between legal and illegal immigration, which is, anyway, a pretty artificial construct for a country that teaches its children that all are and should be welcome here.)

I don't know anything about the mural, nor did I read the original article. But the letter is pretty ridiculous, and I wanted to make sure that the world will know: I did not write that.

So it is that there is now another Matt Rand on my list of Matt Rands who are not me.