Letters to the Editor
William Timberman
Published Letters: 3298 Editor's Choice: 7
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The left-wing apacalypse
[Read the article: Right-wing blogs discover massive conspiracy to hide WMDs in Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree with Paul Rosenberg that the disconnect between the right and reality has been a long time in the making, and that it has clearly identifiable parallels in earlier historical periods. I also agree that its increasing virulence heralds a gap which is rapidly becoming insupportable between what the right asserts, and what anyone can see with his own eyes. (It still amazes me that any adult of reasonable competence would join any club which requires tangible evidence of schizophrenia as a condition of membership, but that's another discussion.)
In pondering Paul's analysis, it amuses me to imagine an End Times theory for the left, which, if not terribly useful, is at least as plausible as what Krauthammer, Dobson and Melanie Phillips have to offer us.
It goes like this: When the fears of the right, fears of everything from the vagina dentata to the yellow peril begin to generate flecks of foam on the lips of its principal spokesmen, the End is Near.
Their end, or ours, or everybody's? That, of course, is what is of principal interest to the faithful, but unfortunately, it's also the only aspect of the catechism which has yet to be worked out. Perhaps our theologians here can help us; we'd like to avoid schism if possible, especially given the great work of evangelism which still lies before us.
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As long as I'm up
[Read the article: Right-wing blogs discover massive conspiracy to hide WMDs in Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First of all, that should have been Apocalypse.
BUt here's another theological question. When shooter called us old biddies on a previous thread, I considered praying to Hera to hold him down while Kali bit his dick off. Was that a blasphemous impulse?
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Tiresome is what it is
[Read the article: Right-wing blogs discover massive conspiracy to hide WMDs in Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is a big country, and despite the buffoons now running its government, it still has a lot going for it. I'm not much impressed, and certainly not intimidated by the loonies and ninnies who come here to sell their absurd and bloodthirsty fantasies, but I do admit that they can get in the way of the real business of citizenship.
No, RealName, it's not all lies, not even your part in it, although given your deficiencies in the common sense department, you'd do well to listen more and yap less. America can't rule the world, or direct it, or even single-handedly set the agenda for it. It's simply not in our power to do so. Must we kill millions before you and your colleagues realize it?
What we can do is make a serious attempt to live up to the ideals embedded in our Constitution, and -- I have to say it -- in the religions which we profess, which have nothing whatever to do with punishing the perceived iniquities of others, either in our own backyard, or in other people's homelands.
Have you ever considered what it would mean if we made a serious effort to feed all our people, and educate more of them, or to begin the design, development and construction of an infrastructure which would allow human beings and the rest of the earth's species to live in relative harmony? If we can't -- or won't -- agree to less energy-intensive modes of living, how can we provide for this energy when economically convenient fuels run out, or if it should prove an indisputable fact that burning fuels on the present scale will cause our doom?
Hell, RealName, these aren't really even political questions, and they certainly can't be answered by the neo-nazi mouthbreathing shit-slingers like yourself who mistake themselves for the voice of God on blogs like this one.
I don't find you worth a reasoned response; considered in the aggregate, such ignorance, and such belligerence is simply tiresome, especially when there's so much real work to be done.
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The destroyer of worlds
[Read the article: Right-wing blogs discover massive conspiracy to hide WMDs in Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ah, I see shooter, that you believe that no one in the United States starves, and that education is free. That's what the bumper sticker says, so you believe it.
Beyond that, what made you think I was speaking exclusively of the United States? Our people doesn't mean only those who live in Seacaucus. Only you would assume that it does.
You think that there's no way to proceed other than to burn down the forests, pave the bottomland, dump mercury into the oceans, melt the icecaps, and become a stink in the nostrils of God himself. The rest is magic, wishful thinking, or the unhappiness of liberals, yes?
That's why every man -- wnd woman's -- hand is turned against you here, not because we have no respect for a forthright warrior.