Cow art cheapens our Village The newly installed cow art looks ghastly and cheapens the appearance of our Village. They were the idea of Deborah Marengo and Tiffany Sherer when they ran the Promote La Jolla business organization. Thankfully they are now part of a better balanced board and we may avoid these ridiculous ideas.  I will be surprised if any of the cows sell.  John Beaver, La Jolla Get rid of the Casa Beach sea wall We are a group of people that want the La Jolla Cove designated as California sea lion habitat. We want the lifeguards to stop chasing the sea lions off the La Jolla Cove beach in the mornings and we want a rope erected by the city to protect the sea lion area of the La Jolla Cove beach, which is the right side of the beach where the sea lions congregate in the mornings. If the city council is to declare Casa Beach as harbor seal habitat, we want the same done at the La Jolla Cove for the California sea lions. We thank Scripps Institution of Oceanography researchers for the help they have given us on this project. Also, we want the seawall at Casa Beach condemned as unsafe for human use and we want the seawall removed. The concrete surface of the walkway is worn away leaving only rocks to walk on. The concrete railing supports are all eroded away and are structurally failing, a part of the railing came down just last year. We also note the railing is rusted badly. Declare the seawall unsafe for human use and close it. Take the seawall down along with the old lifeguard tower. Let the ocean restore Casa Beach to its natural state and the harbor seals will use Seal Rock in place of the Children’s Pool beach. People can enjoy the seals at Casa Beach from the sidewalk. Robert Johnson, San Diego Save the babes! Whenever I speak with the zealous supporters of the Children’s Pool seals, I give them several very good, practical reasons why I don’t think 200 seals should be squatting in downtown La Jolla. I always ask them for their counter-argument, and so far all I’ve gotten is: “I like to look at the seals.” OK. You know what? I’d “like to look at” 200 Playboy Playmates out there, prancing about, buck naked, playfully frolicking in the surf and sunning their beautiful. wild selves on the sand. This is untamed, raw nature, that kids in a city (or the country, for that matter) don’t often get to observe up close. I know the boys, at least, would find it educational as all get out. And they might even attract more tourists! I admit this would be controversial to some, but so what? You see, I “like to look at” the naked Playmates at Children’s Pool — can’t we give them (and me) just one lousy beach to call their own? Well, no, we won’t, because let’s face it, a couple hundred naked babes at Children’s Pool, in the middle of La Jolla Village, just wouldn’t be appropriate, would it? But then again, they wouldn’t be nearly as inappropriate as those fetid seals. Consider the following: 1. Playmates would presumably avail themselves of modern sanitation facilities, thus Children’s Pool Beach — formerly one of the most beautiful beaches in the continguous U.S. and now the most polluted in the county — would no longer stink. And, bonus! Playmates smell good! 2. Playmates would respect the marine preserve, and even if they didn’t, the lot of them could never eat as many fish in a month as a seal eats in a single day. 3. Playmates, while they are very attractive, are not so to sharks. Despite what misinformation you may have read or heard, the recent fatal attack in Solana Beach was the first and only shark attack on a human in San Diego waters, ever. (The “Shark Data Base” in Florida is all wet.) If the seals remain, expect further attacks. 4. Ellen Scripps really did a lot for us La Jollans, but, like Flounder in “Animal House,” she screwed up — she trusted us. And now the council and Kehoe and all the rest of our reprobate “leaders” are doing everything they can to undermine that trust. Why would anybody ever give anything to the city of San Diego again? The presence of naked Playmates, however, would not violate the trust. 5. Presumably, it would still provide James Hudnall and others of his ilk something they “like to look at” without ruining our beautiful town. So, come on, everybody! Save the babes! Joe Guiney, La Jolla