Letters to the Editor
tom payne
Published Letters: 1101 Editor's Choice: 3
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Dishonoring God
[Read the article: Inside the Creation Museum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]These fundie morons diminish God by squeezing Him into a six day box and a 6000 year framework for the whole history of the world. How sad. If God is omipotent, why is He restricted to such kindergarten rigidity? I believe in God and His creation, but He has eternity, and need not conform to such mindless and insulting cartoons, as if the Flintstones werea documentary. Go to place of great geolocial grandeur and it is screamigly obvious that creation is real, is continuing, and is millions upon millions of years old.
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Saltine or Ritz
[Read the article: Fred Thompson, "tough guy" and "folksy cultural conservative"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Either way, still a cracker. Most of the confederacy is going to vote for any republikan with a pulse, so his "aw shucks" crappola means zip. I personally hope Romney gets the fascist call. He's a spineless empty suit and incapable of original thought or credible debate, assuming an actual debate would ever take place- not just the alternating stump speech format that we've had the last few times around.
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Unequaled
[Read the article: Why is "Sgt. Pepper" so overhyped?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There has never been an album to unify, astonish, and touch an entire generation as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band did for those of us coming of age (say, mid teens to mid twenties) on June 1, 1967. "In this way, Mr. K will challenge the world", indeed. Yes, the revolution was naive and short lived, but it did, for a brief while, change America. The cultural lines drawn in the mid sixties are very close parallels to the red/blue (formerly blue/gray) dichotomy that divides our country. If I have to chose between Sgt. Pepper and General Petraus or Colonoscopy Powell, I'm going with the band that's been going in and out of style since that explosive February 9, 1964 evening on Ed Sullivan. Yeah, the Stones can rock, but so could the Who, the Allman Bros., Skynard, the Doobies, and a long list of derivative bands. John, Paul, George, and Ringo were, and are, the voice of the sixties. Our children, two in their thirties and two in their late twenties, listen to the boys from Liverpool as much or more than my wife and I do. We got married in the Ozarks in 1970, and had "In My Life" and "Here, There, and Everywhere" played during the ceremony. The congregation was scandalized a little, but it was our time, our music, and our lives. Still true today, every last word. Thank you, Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Starkey, for what you gave to the world, and to me.
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Better Than Blowing
[Read the article: Ron Paul is blowing up real good]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At least Paul makes some cogent points. Or course, the New World Order nonsense is just that. There isn't, and hasn't been, an Old World Order. Chaos, conflict, diminishing resources, one war after another. Welcome to planet earth, and the good Ol USA can't do jack unless it wakes the hell up, gets green, gets benevolent, and soon. the smoke and mirrors of "libertarian" "thought" is just selfishness with an MBA. BS is more like it. It's like the old saying about affirmative action opposition: "I've upped my mobility; now, up yours." Exactly.
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bloomsbury
[Read the article: Why is "Sgt. Pepper" so overhyped?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Amen. The grey men, the souldead ones, have taken over again, and we need all the optimism we can get. And the Beatles, all in all, were an adrenalin rush of optimism, coming on Sullivan two months after Kennedy was murdered, and taking us all along on an all too brief mystery tour. I still believe it, too, all of it, despite the heaviness and heartache in the world. I still play in two bands at 60, and there isn't a republikan to be found anywhere in our family. Change is not only possible; it's inevitable. The question is, are we going to be agents of change, or victims of it? "we were talking about the space between us all/ and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion/never glimpse the truth/'til it's far too late and they pass away." If you have a pulse, it's not too late.
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Brian Wilson and Sgt. Pepper
[Read the article: Why is "Sgt. Pepper" so overhyped?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The album that was infuenced by "Pepper" was "Smile", not Pet Sounds. Brian was in the midst of a drug induced meltdown from which he's never completely recovered. A friend of mine, Van Dyke Parks, wrote the lyrics for "Smile", which was finally released in the last couple years. Van Dyke also wrote the words for "Heroes and Villians", and has done so much mind boggling stuff the only thing you can do is google and check out the list of hall of fame people he's worked with. Just an amazing man. And "God Only Knows", along with "Wouln't It Be Nice" are my favorite Beach Boys songs of all time.
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Billogna
[Read the article: Will the real Hillary please stand up?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ross Perot didn't elect Bill Clinton, but the Supreme Kourt did appoint Bushit. As far as Hillary is concerned: I don't hate her. I don't even dislike her. But she is a negative ad campaign's wet dream girl. If we nominate her and the fascists pick Fred or Mitt, we'll lose. Again. That cannot be allowed to happen. Edwards/Obama would run away with it, and govern with great eloquence and competance, things utterly absent for the past six years. Bush is the worst preznit in Murkan history. Not even close, unless you include Jefferson Davis.
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shooterpatooter
[Read the article: The great right-wing fraud to repudiate George W. Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Scooter was complicit in war crimes. Berger made a clerical error. BFD. Have a lovely day, and an even more lovely '08 ass kicking. You've earned it, in spades.