So what has so incensed readers of the New York Times that they have fired off a whole page of letters to the editor?  Obama’s “bitter” remark?  Immigration? DIplomacy with Israel?

None of the above, in fact: topic du jour for Monday April 21 is the Met’s new policy on renewals for subscriptions to the Ring cycle in 2009. And, even more surprisingly, not a single letter is protesting the casting of Lisa Gasteen as Brunnhilde.