On the matter of our fine feathered friends former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. and Gov. Martin O'Malley, it has been a mild source of amusement watching the mutual slinging of brickbats on their TV ads, mainly in the form of pots calling kettles black. What is not funny, however, is the regular intrusion from the O'Malley campaign of "robocalls" to my home, compared to no such calls from the Ehrlich side. As a voting independent, I suggest to the irksome Democrats that discretion is the better part of valor.

Owen Cummings, Baltimore