Letters to the Editor
Stellaa
Published Letters: 186 Editor's Choice: 14
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The greedy investors made it happen
[Read the article: Why I didn't invest in subprime mortgages]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Everyone is guilty in this mess. The lenders who through out the rules about what good lending is. The investors who got greedy and wanted more. The realtors who oversold the market and fueled the ponzy scheme by inflating prices. The government for not enforcing the rules on fair lending and disclosures. The media for riding the tide of false market promises. And finally, the borrowers who wanted a home so much, who wanted a piece of wealth, who believed the machine that was aimed at them, aimed to take away their feeble earnings.
I am sure, that Lance was in some way part of the S&L crisis of the 90's. These low life forms, re invented themselves and brought us another disaster. They disregarded all the rules and the snake oil salesmen, the boom and bust merchants, took us down the path of gluttony one more time. Be careful, he will pop up somewhere else and shake the hands of Democratic and Republican Congressmen at Rotary club meetings and still be considered and upstanding American.
At least the mafia had the culture to give us some great movies and tv shows, these guys are just a bunch of criminals of the lowest form. Now they working to figure out how to make money from the carcass that is left.
Thanks for the 29 years of cosnervative economic policies? Has anything wokred?
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EEks
[Read the article: Why I didn't invest in subprime mortgages]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Threw...not through. Why cannot I edit letters....sorry.
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Extreme dislike
[Read the article: Salon Book Awards 2007]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...an obese Dominican-American geek living in New Jersey, with a baleful, dying mother, a devoted punkette sister and a heart full of thwarted romance. With grace and brio, Díaz conjures a world that encompasses everything from streetwise Spanglish to Dungeons and Dragons, campus politics to immigrant family saga.
Why does this type of book completely turn me off? Is it age? Has a new style of fiction come into play and I am missing the point ?
It just seems that writers/authors were replaced by a randomizer that creates characters in odd situations and tries to either shock or surprise me, the reader, as to how what a clever conjurer the writer is. There is a similar indie film style that creates the same reaction. Royal Tanebaums, Malkovich etc.
Unfortunately, your list of recommendations is filled with "whacky" character books, getting whacky with each other.
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Oppression
[Read the article: Feminist hypocrisy on the hijab?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't think this is an area of grayness. Very recently I heard Azar Nafisi, the author of Reading Lolita In Teheran. She very clearly articulated the issue that I also have as a woman with middle eastern but non Moslem. As western feminists the issue is very clear. Religion by choice, wether for women or men is a right, a human right. How we choose to practice it should be an individual choice. Oppression, misogyni and patriarchy rear their heads when the state, the father or husband force a woman to practice that expression. When it is forced, it's a lie. It's a caricature that is only there to make the person who endows themselves with authority the satisfaction of obedience. That same right of choice in religions expression, should be afforded to Arab women, Moslem women, basically all women without distinction and without gray areas. We are either for human rights or we are not. It's not ok to apply cultural relativism to an issue of rights.
Practicing and believing Moslem women should have the right and the protection to wear the hijab. As feminists we should not cloud tyranny with the fog of cultural relativism and acceptance. When a woman is killed for not wearing the hijab, it's a violation of human rights. In this day in age, this is a crime against humanity. If there is one honorable thing that has come out of the West, it is this concept. It's not gray.
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To Topha
[Read the article: Feminist hypocrisy on the hijab?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please read my point carefully, if a woman chooses, I repeat: chooses. If she is free to make the choice and only then, it is her choice. The issue is that the state and the family forces in the current Moslem nations. It is a lie that it is in the name of religion, it's in the name of tyranny. Then it is not a religious/human rights choice. The question is how many places now are people afforded a true religious choice?
The tyranny is when the individual does not make a true choice. If you offer freedom and then tell the person, you chose your religion but now I will not let you wear the hijab, that is as well tyranny as well. Many westerners have transferred the tyranny of the state into the hijab. The hijab is not the tyranny, the state and the father are.
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Comment reading problem...
[Read the article: Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds warn of "social unraveling" if Obama loses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I cannot click and read comment, get error message for one month now.
What gives...the only way to read is by posting...so sorry for this.
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Once again: Right ON
[Read the article: The role of political reporters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Brilliant . I started my morning with your article and Krugman's. Time to close the computer. Both of you summarized the goings on brilliantly.
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Self hating woman
[Read the article: Hillary without tears]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gee, Camille, where does all the self hate come from?
When did you become the Dr. Phil instant psychoanalysis queen?
Get a grip.
You may not agree with her or her politics, but why all the character assassination?
I frankly find the Hillary bashing loathsome. I don't like her politics, but I don't give a damn about her persona or personality.
Hillary's health plan is way more progressive than Obama's. And frankly, she is the only one who tried to get one going before, so maybe the she knows Cumbaya will not work.
I am and Edwards supporter.