DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say the NY SUN is no longer publishing.

Yes, Virginia, there is a New York Sun. It exists as certainly as cynicism and bias and conservatism exist, and you know that they abound and require a paid registration to access content.

Alas! how dreary would a New York City be with only 13 daily newspapers that nobody buys since you can be handed a free copy of the Metro when they get on the Subway in the morning! It would be as dreary as if there were no carpetbaggers willing to come up to New York and run for congress.

There would be no childlike faith that a woman might be qualified to be vice president because she’s pretty, no whatever that stuff that rhymes is, no faked romance between characters on The Hills to distract us from the economic Armageddon. We should have no Sudoku, except the five star ones which are really hard.

But Virginia, while your subscription has been extinguished, believing that you’ll get a refund on undelivered issues? Well, that’s like believing in Santa Claus.