Ask the pilot: The American non-traveler: What's the price of staying put? Plus: When airline …

Before getting started, I would like to express my appreciation for your many flattering comments in response to last week's story about the African slum and the injured hedgehog.  It was not an easy column to write, and I worried that feedback would not be positive.

Still, though, I beg to differ that the piece was, as one e-mailer called it, "by order of magnitude better" than anything I've… » Full Story on Salon.com