Letters to the Editor
livinggreen
Published Letters: 13 Editor's Choice: 1
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Good job
[Read the article: The next New Orleans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sure glad someone is keeping this topic on the front burner. I live in Houston, which has seen some bad storms before. Had the Houston Ship Channel taken a direct hit from a (then-)Category 5 Rita, the consequences would have been devastating. People here are well aware of the dangers bigger, stronger hurricanes pose -- not to mention tropical storms that can sit over the city for days like Allison did. Regardless, and even with the flood of New Orleanians we welcomed in the aftermath of Katrina, I'm not sure folks are aware enough.
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Religion Schmeligion
[Read the article: When are women like "uncovered meat"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well then woe to the Heathens out there who aren't neo-Nazis -- which would be most of them.
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Joel Osteen and the Astrodome
[Read the article: The president, the preacher and the prostitute]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fact check: Lakewood Church meets in the former Compaq Center, not the Astrodome.
-- livinggreen
Houston, TX
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Resistance
[Read the article: I don't feel like writing. Does that mean I'm not a writer?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dear LW:
What you're describing sounds like resistance. I highly recommend Steven Pressfield's book The War of Art. Inside, a lot of practical advice about resistance.
Best wishes,
A fellow writer
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Tragedy
[Read the article: Ninety Iraqis, nine Americans dead in blasts]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And just this morning on Today, Brian Williams talked about how things were turning some sort of peaceful corner because there was no bombing to report on *this morning.* Yes, a one-day streak of peacefulness.
When will these folks join the reality-based community?
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Amy's Ice Cream
[Read the article: What happened to plain old vanilla?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Beloved Amy's Ice Cream of Austin (and Houston) stands head and shoulders above the rest for one reason: mix-ins or no, Amy's ice cream is actually amazing all by itself.
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@ timbuktom
[Read the article: Cummins: "My professional reputation has already been slandered"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh, lay off the Texas bashing already. I have doubts Sara Taylor has anything at all to do with Texas except that her former boss used to be the governor. Although I can't find definitive information on her state of birth, her father is a former senator from Iowa.
I fail to see how a Texas accent is "nasty." Not to mention that having a Texas accent does not make a person stupid, xenophobic, a liar, rude, or otherwise unethical. All those are equal opportunity graces.
- livinggreen
in Houston
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Robert Franklin
[Read the article: She raped herself]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]on proof:
Well, let's start here.
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/57/17327
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@ JOELSPRAY
[Read the article: When did we become like Syria?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There are few things more enchanting than implying a writer should be so grateful to have the right of free speech as to just shut up. That, along with impugning a writer's professional credentials with a nonsensical argument. Oh, and let's not forget sanctimony and the mention of nations whose policies have no bearing on the argument at hand. Good job.
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@ ShookDaddy
[Read the article: Hillary without tears]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've seen some of the Stratfor analysis on policy in the Middle East, and I just have to say this:
What the hell is wrong with people that the bloodshed of thousands is nothing before a game of geopolitical chess?
All the so-called reasoned analysis in the world is nothing more than a road to hell on earth if it fails to take into account the real people on the ground who are affected. It also boggles my mind that the folks who make these arguments seem not to take into account or to underestimate or mistake the effects of this sort of geopolitical gamesmanship coming home to roost in unplanned-for uprisings, etc. The blowback in Afghanistan that brought about the rise of the Taliban is just one example.
Just because the United States hasn't been hit by another terrorist attack since September 2001, it does not logically follow that the administration's invasion of Iraq has prevented anything at all.
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austincynic
[Read the article: A Scott McClellan flashback]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually, as the recent post over at War Room states, McClellan got a less than $100,000 advance. That's not "never work again" money.
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No losers indeed
[Read the article: "No fear, no regret"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bravo, Gary!
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piggybacking on JT's message
[Read the article: Bateman: Barack Obama on Bill Ayers ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not to mention that it actually *is* relevant that the board in question was Annenburg's. Many high-profile Republicans sat on that board. Not one of them objected to Ayers' presence at the time. The only objections we're seeing now are fomented by McCain/Palin out of political desperation. Suddenly Republicans care? Please.
Additionally, this matter was vetted during the primaries. There is no "there" there.