Letters to the Editor
tom payne
Published Letters: 1101 Editor's Choice: 3
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Dimbulb 69
[Read the article: Repeal the Second Amendment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Bushistas have dismantled half of the bill of rights without a shot being fired or a peep from the reich wing. The right to bear arms (arms, not guns, dimwit) was in lieu of an army. Now, we have the military industrial comples that Ike so prophetically warned us about, and they're got us by the short hair. Polish your Glock if it gets you off, but don't delude yourself it saves any of the rights that your republikan friends have ripped into tiny shreds. My personal preference is for impeachment rather than revolution. The odds are better, but not as odd as gunnutz.
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more fuxxsnooze bile
[Read the article: Charles Krauthammer takes rank hypocrisy to new lows]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]hate, hate, fear, hate, fear, Moslems, terrror, fear, hate. There: fuxxsnooze text in it's reader's indigestion version. Whatta marroon.
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dred scott turns into a woman
[Read the article: Supreme Court upholds ban on "partial-birth" abortion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]in the reichwing world, women are props and property. Men have the right to tell wimmen to carry a fetus without regard to her health or her personal choice. The repulkan model of the male/female "relationship" is Rhett carry Scarlett up the staircase to ravage her.
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Hypocrites and Pharisees
[Read the article: Supreme Court upholds ban on "partial-birth" abortion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Say this prayer: "God, I defend to the death life before birth, and thereafter leave the wellbeing of chidren to your Almighty power, or random chance, whichever comes first." As long as republikans keep bleeding and bleating about poor widdle babies, while they ignore a half million dead Iraqi civilians, you'll pardon me if I'm not convinced of your piety. On the contrary, you have Pharisee written all over you. God is merciful, but He is also just. Watch your back "reverend". God is.
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Craphammer
[Read the article: Charles Krauthammer takes rank hypocrisy to new lows]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When your head's a hammer, the world is a nail. Or anal. Works either way. These flaming hypocrites only have two gods: money and power. Israel is only a mean to those ends. Iraq as well, and Iran in its turn. Textbook fascism. Pity that most Murkans think unless you wear bad costumes, stand on balconies, give stiff armed salutes, and come from Italy or German, you can't possibly be a fascist. Dead freakin' wrong. Neocons, with the emphasis on "con", are military industrial complex propaganda whores. My apologies to any ladies of the evening present. Your pursuits are far more moral than anything the Bushistas do. The worst administration in American history, combining the worst of Nixxon, Ray-gun, Grant, Harding, and Ronald McDonald. Lies, death, environmental degradation, the dismantling of the Bill of Rights, women's rights, voting rights....the list is virtually endless, and, as Lewis Black so well put it, every time you think they can't get worse, they do. And the bastards have two more years. That'll be at least another 1500 dead American soldiers (not counting "contractors", mercenary thugs that they are), tens of thousands of dead Iraqi civilians (and Iran is on the radar screen next), Krisply Kreme Kourt decisions stripping rights from women and minorities and workers and french kissing the asses of corporate polluters. Disgusting doesn't come close. All those years ago in college, I never understood the French Revolution's appalling excesses with the guillotine and all. Now, I get it. I don't advocate it, but I get it.
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Proctology
[Read the article: Right-wing blogs discover massive conspiracy to hide WMDs in Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The long-sought wmd's are hidden where only a proctologist can find them: up Dick Cheney's ample arse. Hi there, Scootie the Cootie. Havin' fun at those Klan meetings? Have a lovely day.
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Roaring Stoned
[Read the article: Rolling Stone hits the big 4-0]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sure, it's tough to narrow it down to 40, but Britney Spears changed the world? What world? And RS started in SF, during the heyday of the sixties San Francisco sound, and yet nothing from the Airplane or the Dead- hell, even the Youngblood's "Get Together" was as emblematic of the summer of love as any song I can think of. And I was there- Berkeley, Monterey, the Fillmore, all of it, everybody, and I've been a guitarist for 42 years. No Muddy, no Memphis Sound (where's Otis Redding), no Robert Johnson or Son House. I agree with about a quarter of the choices (that's alright, mama had to be there), but no Jonny Cash, or Hank Williams. Give me a freaking break. The move to NY was the sure signal of sellout. I was a charter subcriber from issue one, but I haven't read the rag in twenty years. Booooooring.
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Floyd
[Read the article: Rolling Stone hits the big 4-0]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'd go with "Wish You Were Here", but at least Floyd made the list. Syd Barrett invented what Gilmour and Waters carried on, and the song is about him. But I'm good with "The Wall", too.
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Taking our Country Back
[Read the article: "Worse than Nixon"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]These bastards are far, far worse than Nixxon, and I though that was impossible. I don't give a damn if impeachment is messy or lengthy or impractical. It is the Constitutional means to regain our lost country. You remember the Constistution, doncha? It's what Bushit and Cheney have used for Charmin for the last six years.
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Racial Ignorance
[Read the article: Who gets to use the N word?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For some American blacks, Barack Obama isn't a nigger 'cause his forebearers weren't slaves. All this infighting about terminology undercuts the class, economic, and social stigma that still goes in this "free" country. There are a whole list of offensive references (coon, darkie, tom, crossbreed, ect.) and that's just for folk partly or mostly African in origin. But how about Brazilians, or Jamaicans, or actual Africans? Sloppy language, and insulting language, is dangerous thrown around casually. Gay and dyke and fag may be bandied about in the homosexual community, but don't tell me those words aren't still loaded in middle America. Worrying about "nigger" is like worrying about the flag while the Constitution disintegrates (no pun intended). Think about issues. Organize. Vote. Don't get sucked into the Imus style surface crap when the deeper injustices are rife. Honky out.
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Get Over Yourself
[Read the article: Is it too late to start a band at 45?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you wanted to play, you'd play. don't be a dilletante. Practice, get gigs, and let the road lead where it will. Fame? Get real. Deep satisfaction? Very possible. I'm pushing 61 with a short stick and I"m in two bands and play in clubs several times a month. I make very little money, but the energy you get back from a crowd that gets what you're doing is way beyond material trivia. Get off your ass and play, or shut up and stop pretending.