Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 90 Editor's Choice: 3
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"We have nothing to fear from each other?"
[Read the article: The old John McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's a nice line, but, frankly, the things my compatriots and our government does have affected me far more deeply on a daily basis than anything al-Qaeda has ever done. I know there are people in this country for whom that's not true, but they are in the minority.
When the government stops sticking its nose in our bedrooms, when it stops wiretapping (and letting other private entities wiretap) our conversations, then we can talk about how we have nothing to fear from each other. But as long as the right-wing loonies are trying to prevent women from having reproductive choices and as long as there are religious wackos who want their brand of Christianity to inform every public-policy decision the government makes, I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with Mr. McCain's campaign and say that we have PLENTY to fear from each other.
Yeah, our neighbors might not be trying to kill us, but they sure can make our lives miserable just the same.
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Names
[Read the article: A floor of one's own]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Women's Executive Level" to complement its male-aimed "King Executive Level." (Note the difference in the names. Ugh.)
Okay, so what would you have them named? "Queen Executive Level" sounds awfully, well, gay. And I have no doubt this column would be screaming bloody murder at "Men's Executive Level."
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Okay, so what's the evidence?
[Read the article: White House ordered forgery]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As the Politico notes, this is not a new story--the alleged letter has been bandied about before.
So what is Suskind's new evidence that the letter actually exists? Is there any? Is he basing this on new sources? How reliable are those sources?
Look, guys, the problem with the left is that we've made a lot of claims for which no evidence has been provided. So it's easy for right-wingers to dismiss any claim that the Bush administration is doing wrong as more hysteria. This kind of story (and the kind that Sidney Blumenthal used to write here and is thankfully not writing here anymore--long on opinion and short on fact) is momentarily satisfying, but it doesn't get us anywhere in the long run.
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"Article" was tl;dr. There are two reasons.
[Read the article: Why isn't Obama crushing McCain?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1) Butthurt Clinton supporters.
2) The color of his skin.
I suppose there might also be a third: people who will vote for him in the fall but who are rightfully pissed off at him for things like the telecom immunity vote.
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I'll tell you what I have...
[Read the article: Do you suffer from blockbuster fatigue?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have fatigue fatigue.
I'm tired of Salon telling me I need to be tired of things, like blockbusters and Barack Obama.
(I'm also kind of tired of Stephanie Zacharek... Yes, she hates film. We get it.)
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... And what is the lead story on Salon?
[Read the article: "There was so much blood spilled"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"BLOCKBUSTER FATIGUE."
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Yeah...
[Read the article: The beast]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... I feel the same way about ex-athletes who say they write.
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(And, uh...
[Read the article: The beast]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... That was a joke, not a serious dig. I worked as a professional writer for ten years and never once broke a femur.)
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I'm voting for Barack Obama.
[Read the article: Oops]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But I'd be even more likely to vote for Barack America.
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So...
[Read the article: Advice to Obama for his historic speech]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Five speechwriters with a single Presidential nominee among them, giving advice to a Presidential nominee whose 2004 DNC keynote is largely seen as the impetus for the (well-deserved) acclamation the country has given him in the four years since...?
Yeah, forgive me if I don't bother reading this one, guys.
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This may be Obama's first major misstep.
[Read the article: Obama camp responds to Palin pick]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't think this is the right tone to take yet.
Welcome her to the race first.
THEN attack her.
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So...
[Read the article: OMG: Palin's daughter now pregnant]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... whose pregnancy WAS she covering up for?
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Why?
[Read the article: Palin, pregnancy and the presidency]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Because when people are talking about Bristol Palin, they're not talking about Sarah Palin's neanderthal policy positions or John McCain's support of Bush's legislative agenda. And when people DO talk about Bristol Palin, both campaigns will rush to shut them up.
It's win-win for McCain.
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To sum up:
[Read the article: Nobody's dummy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]cp;dr
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I'm with Amity.
[Read the article: Obama and the dawn of the Fourth Republic]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As I was reading this, I was reminded of a paper I wrote my senior year of college making a similarly forced comparison between Neronian Rome and America under Clinton. I did the same kind of hand-waving generalization as Lind has done here, drawing the same grandiose conclusions about historical cycles from scanty evidence bedecking a creaking and shoddy framework.
The paper got a C. The professor was being generous.
This is superficially kind of a cool idea, but there's very little substance here.
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Um...
[Read the article: Franken keeps gaining on Coleman]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Two and a half hours, 18 minutes... same difference.
If Franken loses by 20 votes, I hope he'll accept the results gracefully--just as I'd hope Coleman would do the same.