I just ran across your article on my impassioned letter against the ig nobel prizes. One doesn’t ordinarily remember all the responses one writes in the mood of after-viewing a website of most kinds, and I had forgotten this one.

Thank you for publishing my response, and responding back to it. I have a great big smile on my face after reading it, and it didn’t even take a prize to get it there.

(As far as coming last in the 2006 election was concerned, that was I, all right. Running was done for the experience, and I learned a great deal about the process.

At least all of my 194 votes came from people who were informed about my platform. The guy who was first on the ballot alphabetically won over 5000 votes; and his platform, as I recall, was that Toronto should secede from Ontario. I’m thinking about changing my name to Mark Aardvark-State for the next election!)

All the best,
Mark State