I could honestly write a column every week about readers' thoughts on the puzzles and comics. You've seen many of those here, though I don't address them often because, well, there's not much point to something so subjective.

I wrote about the new creator of the Tribune crossword in the FYI section earlier this year. The new editor of the crossword was making puzzles that literally thousands of readers around the country complained were too hard. She dialed down the difficulty, and I heard many happy voices.

I just spoke with a reader who was really (and I mean really) upset that today's A-1 centerpiece was a story by Dave Helling and Diane Stafford about overly-aggressive youth coaching. The story is also about how coaching styles have an analog in the business management world -- but that didn't matter to this reader.

As I've said many times, what readers tell me is individual and subjective, so I don't mean this as representative research -- but I sure have heard from several people who are tired of so much attention being devoted to the Mohler case. One particularly memorable e-mail I received today:

"Enough of the Front Page Mohler Case Puke on the front page, tabloid at best at this time. Put in on the back page like you do the Faith Section, in the FYI section. Amen."

A caller tells me she "disapprove(s) of your photo editors' judgment" in today's photo on Page A-1. With the story about holiday shopping, a caption says Carol and Shelby Jennings were pictured shopping at Oak Park Mall.

"What store is that?" asked my caller. "What if I saw something and I wanted to buy it? Is that a Star policy not to identify stores?"

A reader yesterday posed a question that was pretty much the first thing that had come to my mind after police made arrests in the Mohler case:

"Is all of the evidence against the Mohler family based on recovered memories? If so, there are some high profile cases where people were falsely accused of child abuse based on recovered memory. Some experts believe that the psychiatrists are planting these memories rather than recovering a true repressed memory."

A caller asks why today's correction in the print edition was necessary:

A story Nov. 12 about the arrest of members of the Mohler family incorrectly said Burrell E. Mohler Sr. had been an Independence firefighter. His son, Burrell E. Mohler Jr., was the firefighter.

"The original one just said he was 'reportedly' a firefighter," she said. "Doesn't that cover it?"

Eh, you could argue that -- but I think the correction was appropriate and necessary, myself.

Several readers have asked me about a clause in the newly-updated "Terms of Service" for KansasCity.com and its affiliated sub-sites and blogs. The passage in question states that "there may be certain content available via subscription or surcharge, and such content will be clearly marked."

"When are you planning to try to charge us for our news there?" asked a caller this morning. "I won't pay it."

I asked The Star's publisher if there are any current plans to charge for content, and he told me that isn't the case.

I'll just let this reader's observation about today's report on alleged crimes against children by members of the Mohler family south of Bates City:

I am writing to protest some of the details in the article "Horrendous Crimes" in today's paper.
Some of the details, well, I can't even bring myself to quote or describe them, went so far as to be pornography for pedophiles. I'm sure some of them will appreciate the images.

A question editors mulled yesterday and again in this morning's news meeting: Yesterday, the military issued a report entitled "Ready, Willing and Unable to Serve" (warning: pdf in link), which states that "75 percent of America’s young adults cannot join the military" because of poor education, involvement in crime, or that they aren't sufficiently physically fit.

Here's one of those weird little details that readers always notice: Several people called me Monday to tell me their copies of the editorial page had a strange flaw -- the text down the first column on the left was wavy. Was that intentional?

Definitely not, and I couldn't find an example in the building. One reader in Topeka kindly mailed me his edition, and there it is, right before my eyes. In fact, every black element on the page has the same little smooth dip of about a centimeter.