Letters to the Editor
NewFauve
Published Letters: 39 Editor's Choice: 4
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The Oprahror has no clothes
[Read the article: Oprah's revenge]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I guess if there are adult readers who rely upon the host of a TV show to tell them what to read maybe it IS neccesary for that host to then make a public, hour-long(?), televised spectacle of pointing that a book she recommended wasn't what she thought it was,
but it wasn't her fault.
Flocks of people are told by others, thought to be infallable and wise, to read and believe story upon story, the validity of which cannot be confirmed. People read them and believe them to a variety of degrees. Whether or not those stories a "real," some people can get something useful out of them.
How about a new Oprah's Book Club sticker that specifies: "Fictionalized Memoir" and sticking on some other shelf, and let people get what they can from it?
Dock Frey's royalties.
And move on.
BK
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Graven Images
[Read the article: Inside the Creation Museum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Pseudo-science aside, IF THERE IS A GOD, isn't this museum, from its silky-haired Adam & Eve to that upstanding Christian, Buddy Davis' lifelike dinosaurs, nothing more than a colossal parade of graven images?
And doesn't it fly in the face of, and maybe defeat the whole purpose of - FAITH - , to errect and charge admission to such a monument that would attempt or claim to - PROVE - creation?
AND IT'S EVEN OPEN ON THE SABBATH!!!!
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"Reality" - the most abused word in American culture
[Read the article: The artful seducer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is the the "seduction scene" in LA reality?
The women in the Youtube photo montage (linked in the second paragraph- and interesting glimpse into his so-called "reality" )- does anyone really think any one of them wants to "replicate?"
The former Dungeons & Dragons geek has found a niche in a subculture where a bunch of girls & boys gone wild need and deserve eachother for validation.
There's nothing wrong with adults hooking up for consensual fun, but to think this guy has THE method is just silly.
Attention Fellas: Mystery's "reality" is a circus, and if you think you need to join it to get laid, your problems are probably sadder and deeper than he's qualified to help you with.
This isn't "reality," and there is no mystery.
Not with a capital M, anyway.
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One unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is ...
[Read the article: Bush on the lesson of Vietnam: Stay longer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... the flock of chickenhawks who, to this day, claim to champion that war's validity, and even while creating their own version of it, once again find myriad ways to avoid its consequenses.
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Intellect?
[Read the article: The scruffy charms of an insecure president]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Smart but allergic to inconvenient facts." ???
That just doesn't sound possible. It almost sounds stupid.
For what it's worth, definition "1A" of Intellect, according to Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary (for the sake of convenience) is "the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge."
Being somewhat of a minor league "intellectual," how our president can somehow demonstrate to the author both intellect AND the absence of curiousity has me damn curious indeed!
Probably not so much that I'd buy the book though.
Also, my curiousity led me to try, but I found no definition for "Hitlery."
So, we're -left- ;) to infer any number of reasons one might choose such a screen name.
Me, I'll proudly own up the particular strain of "Bush Derangement Sydrome" I'm afflicted by.
It's the reality based form, in which patients display and/or are willing to openly state an awareness of just how badly the current president has "deranged" (disturbed the order or arrangement, or upset the normal condition or functioning, disturbed mentally; made insane) the United States of America.
Here's hoping it's contagious!
Get well soon, Hitlery.
Lotsa luv,
NewFauve
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Bike's aren't for transportation...
[Read the article: The bicycle thief]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... they're for photo ops:
http://www.anti-matter-movement.org/bushbike.jpg
... like ranches, and aircraft carriers, and groups of men in uniform, and...
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The question is ffensive?
[Read the article: A non-di-nahy-uhl di-nahy-uhl]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Finding a simple question so offensive that it can't even be commented on probably means the answer is the one we'd find most offensive, or at least most embarrassing; "Yes."
As in, "Yes, our president is kind of a dolt."
That's old news though.
But in order end the continual exposure of the inconvenient truth, heads must roll in the White House Bureau of Phonetics.
For the good of the nation, it's time to repeal at least two official folksyisms.
"NOOK-yuh-ler" and "TERR-ist" must go.
A small step, yes. But if one of us sounds willfully dumb, we all sound willfully dumb.
The president leads by example,
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Meanwhile, In Bizzarro World:
[Read the article: Bill O'Reilly explains the African-American]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fox's Sean Hannity is calling into Al Sharpton's radio show, and the Reverend is recalling with wonder:
"I had dinner with an Irish-American lastnight, in a quaint local pub. It wasn't, you know, just beer and whiskey. They served food as well. On plates!
There were no brawls. And this Irish-Amercan gentleman didn't get drunk. He didn't conclude the evening collapsing by the curb in a puddle of his own urine and vomit.
I only wish that young Irish-Americans could have seen this, what they can aspire to."
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It would also be fairer...
[Read the article: John Edwards' Katrina contest]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... if John Edwards were the former mayor of New Orleans and had decided, against wise advice, to move New Orleans south, from its former, safer site on the northern shore of Lake Pontchartrain to edge of the Gulf of Mexico a few short years after a near miss with category 2 hurricane, only to have the city decimated shortly before he left office, and then SOMEHOW managed to capitalize on such a tragedy, and could barely utter a sentence that didn't include the word "Katrina."
Yes, the trip to New Orleans IS a bit of a photo-op, but Rudy is truly in league of his oen.
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It's been 4 1/2 years
[Read the article: The war president "at peace" with himself]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why does it take this long for this to be brought to light?
Who transcribed this?
Why didn't it get "leaked" in a more timely manner?
I understand why my current president wants to bury any evidence of moments of private candor he may have let slip. But what does it say about the quality of leadership of western nations when Anzar has this conversation, yet apparently feels no need to go public? To shout it from the rooftops?
4 1/2 years later, all this transcrpt does is confirm what we already know about Bush, and show how shiftless Anzar was when action or speaking up publicly might have mattered.
WTF?