Important Mockingbird Update

The freakin' mockingbird is still terrorizing our neighborhood by chirping all night long. If you haven't read about this demon bird, here is the link to my column about it in the Metrowest Daily News.

Also, helpful reader Dee wrote to offer support saying she has the same problem. She writes: "At 3 a.m. I remind myself I wanted to live in the boonies." She says her neighbors took aggressive action and cut down a small tree near their bedroom window that had become a "mockingbird hangout."

Tom Ridge should be become directly involved in finding a peaceful solution to this obviously growing mockingbird problem. Why do we have a Department of Homeland Security, if not to handle situations exactly like this one?