LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
dorsing him, while GOProud’s cofounder Jimmy LaSalvia endorsed
Romney by saying, “Gay people
are living in the disastrous failed
Obama economy too.”
Meanwhile, Tom Zeller Jr. was
tracking another debate—this one
over the eastward migration of
mountain lions, which have traditionally roamed the American
west but in the last decade have
increasingly been spotted in the
Midwest and even the Northeast.
Tom introduces us to mountain
lion enthusiasts like Bo Ottoman,
one of a small but growing group
of wildlife experts who claim that
the “big cats” have returned after
being driven west of the Mississippi by hunters nearly a century
ago. And he draws attention to
the divisions between believer