Letters to the Editor
Silenced
Published Letters: 1358 Editor's Choice: 75
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I think he should apologize to the Institute of Medicine first
[Read the article: Al Gore in 2012?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When he lied about the IOM report during the 2000 campaign, he treated the scientists who put together that report like a pack of fools.
Those were some of the top addiction and medical scientists in the country and they were not and are not a pack of fools.
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Where is the acceptance speech from the scientists?
[Read the article: "We, the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'd rather read that. Al is a politician first and foremost, and politics and I just don't get along.
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Okay people it's time to face reality
[Read the article: The green philosophy of Dennis Kucinich]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Have any of you you noticed anything ODD about Salon's coverage of Kucinich and Ron Paul?
For example -- some positions of theirs that haven't been mentioned in print here?
These two men are apostates in our secular state religion. I'm talking drug policy here. Our secular state religion is the War on Drugs.
This is a religion because drug policy is unaccountable to science.
And you cannot question that religion. Especially not in the current incarnation of Salon.
"Unelectable" really means "He supports legalizing marijuana."
You're not going to see his position on marijuana mentioned in any Salon article.
You're only going to see him called "unelectable" and that's that.
Because that's the way our world has become. This is how low we have sunk.
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Oh hell, another Christian who doesn't know his own religion
[Read the article: A question of faith]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Huckabee told reporters back in October that if there's a conflict between science and what he believes of God, he'll stick with God because science changes and God doesn't.
True, the officialized writing about God hasn't changed since the 5th century Roman editors fixed it in place and made it official.
BUT -- how many Protestant ministers have exhorted the faithful to go out and kill Catholics lately?
That was how Protestants interpreted the Bible back during the Reformation.
If you go to St. Andrews you can see burnt ruins of cathedrals and abbeys and monasteries. They were torn down and the bishops were hanged and God only knows what happened to the nuns and abbesses.
And when was the last time a member of Huckabee's church plucked out his eye after looking at pornography?
That's what it says in the Bible -- if your eye makes you sin, you should pluck that eye out.
You see --- the things that were written about "God" haven't changed since the 5th century -- but the Christian interpretation of those writings is changing and evolving every single day.
And any Christian who can't admit that is just being dumb on purpose.
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Hmmmm good point. On the other hand...
[Read the article: Republican nightmare: An election-year recession]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A recession will make it more difficult for politicians to bite the bullet on energy constraints and greenhouse gas emissions, and will stimulate protectionist and anti-immigrant sentiment.
On the other hand, if we're producing and consuming fewer consumer products due to a recession, doesn't that mean we're reversing the trends of overproduction and overconsumption that are powering the most dire forecasts for the environment?
If there was ever a time when we needed to learn to make do with less stuff, it's now.
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I'd like to know his drug policy, actually, but it appears to be some kind of deep dark secret
[Read the article: Does Huckabee believe wives should "graciously submit" to their husbands?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You've told us his gun policy and his gay policy. How about telling us his drug policy and his incarceration policy as well?
Is he, for example, supportive of the recent Supreme Court decision that mandatory minimum drug sentences are no longer mandatory?
Oh but you guys are going pretend that didn't even happen, aren't you?
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Another big Giuliani favorite just fell off the table too
[Read the article: The GOP's Iran option is off the table]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Supreme Court just made a decision that represents a major blow to people like Giuliani.
But you need to read the mainstream media to find out what that decision was, because Salon doesn't cover drug policy.
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Look Bush is almost gone
[Read the article: Republican nightmare: An election-year recession]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Can anyone take a break from bashing him to answer my question?
Would a global recession help the fight against global warming?
People will be driving fewer places and buying less stuff. That's good, isn't it?
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Okay I'll say something other than just vent my own feelings against this BS
[Read the article: No man? No hajj]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In the United States, there's occasionally debate over when people truly become adults. Is it when they turn 18? 21? Move out of their parents' homes and get a paying job?
This is an interesting starting point for discussion -- exactly when does someone become an adult separated from their family?
Let's bear in mind that Saudi Arabia is still an almost 100% tribal society.
In a tribal society, you never really leave your family. Even if you move to a different town, you're still under the rule of the top patriarch in the family, and then after that your life belongs to the leader of your clan and then the leader of your tribe.
So they don't really have the same ideal of adult separation from family of birth that we Americans have come to hold sacred in our nuclear society.
That's partly what underlies their treatment of women.
The Muslims in Singapore never lived as tribal Bedouins in the desert and have a different social and economic basis for their relationship with Islam.
So they would tend to downplay the content in Islam that emphasizes or glorifies or requires adherence to Bedouin tribal ways.
I think that's the root of what's going on here.
I don't know what I can "do" about it, since tribalism is not just a way of treating women, but an entire social and economic web of survival for people in these regions.
I suppose what one can "do" about this is support organizations that help tribal economies to evolve in a way that is more inclusive of women.
Greater participation in the economy will give women more power within the tribal structure, so that the tribal web can be reformed without being torn apart.
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al dole
[Read the article: Who is the most "electable" Democrat?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I know several Nobel laureates and while I admire every one of them, I wouldn't want any of them to be president. A Nobel Prize means you're extraordinarily good at one thing. It doesn't mean you're good at anything else other than the thing you won it for.