Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 96 Editor's Choice: 6
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Like Groucho said, who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?
[Read the article: The 9/11 deniers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We saw the jets go through the trade towers. It wasn't made up.
Yes, there was gold in the bottom of the wreckage. Read American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center, by William Langewiesche. He has a talent for making large, complex subjects digestable. This information was all over the news within hours of the towers being hit. I never thought it was a secret.
It's the similarities between the conspiracy people and the current administration that are striking. Apparently, only the USA is capable of doing anything on such a grand scale. It was this conceit that allowed it to happen.
Relevant information is out there, it just doesn't seem to be in Loose Change. The Bush administration began to conspire on how to get the American people to support a first strike on Iraq, and as near as I can tell, the whole thing has backfired.
In some dark twist of fate, Dick Cheney, the career oportunist without much practical experience, ended up being in a position to manipulate events. Most of America doesn't even like him.
I think Seymore Hirsch nailed it a couple of months ago when he reported that Iran was the target all along.
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High-Dreck Grinching
[Read the article: A chicken hawk takes on a "hydra-headed enemy"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So Clarence finally gets riled up enough to make his voice heard, bully for him. I'm glad he chose to make it on a topic he apparently knows more than the rest of us about (including, "ahem", those who served). Now that we've had our ignorance of the many dangers lurking out there in that big, scary world pointed out to us perhaps Justice Thomas can devote his time to becoming acquainted with a certain fading document. In it I hope he finds, as I have, the reason to love living in this country - freedom.
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Cool, maybe. Hep, not so much.
[Read the article: The chosen few]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jon Stewart is one hep cat. Cotton don't grow no higher than that man.
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Weaning Junior
[Read the article: The breast of times]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Uh, I think the weaning thing will probably happen when the other kids point and laugh. It'll be successful but not pretty...
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Calling Girl6 - Please Read This
[Read the article: The sexiest man living!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To all the women who posted on this piece, I have to tell you that I read every letter and enjoyed them all very much. Some of them I can't get out of my head and I found myself repeating them over lunch to friends.
Especially Girl6 who wrote about Leonard Nimoy: I have no idea what your background is, whether you're a professional writer or not, but your post made a huge impression on me. Please consider writing a longer piece on this and fleshing it out a bit more. It was wonderful and I want to know more.
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Get In Line
[Read the article: Bloggers, Don Imus and free speech]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First, I want to say that I think what Don Imus said was stupid and reprehensible. I also thought it was stupid when Jesse Jackson referred to New York City as "Hymie Town", and reprehensible when Al Sharpton publicly heaped accusations of rape and racism on New York prosecutor Steven Pagones. Overall, I like all of these people, however, they've all said hurtful things and I'm not ready to jump on a bandwagon to have Imus fired with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton leading the parade.
I would like to see the level of discourse raised in this country and I'm afraid that as long as money is the primary component in the media equation, that isn't going to happen.
If you don't like Imus, don't listen and don't go on his show. Same for Rosie, Rush, the gaggle of idiots at Fox, etc.
I really, really love the First Amendment and really, really hate hypocricy.
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Say It Loud, I'm Smart and I'm Proud
[Read the article: Say it loud: I'm elite and proud!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm a shit kicker from Kansas who began announcing myself as a proud elitist around the time Junior the Decider started threatening Iraq. The idea seemed half-baked and there's no shame in thinking things through. In fact, that appears to be what many of the War Czar candidates are doing. Of course, it's easy for Junior to surround himself with these marginal Christians - they're plentiful and no one else wants them. Obviously, no one with all their marbles would want to be connected with this administration, so there we are.
Cheney is pathologically paranoid, Junior spends half of his time trying to complete a sentence and the other half subconsciously looking for constitutional battles just to prove that he's better and smarter than the old man - and gosh darn it, people like him. Or, they did. Not so much now.
When Newt Gingrich becomes what passes as an intellectual in Republican circles, it should be clear to everyone that, indeed, mediocrity has won the day in America.
We've had years of myth building in this country around ideas like deregulation, a trickle down economy, privatization working better than government, etc. The only good that has emerged is that we've been dealing with the consequenses of these conceits for over 25 years and the net result is that the rich are richer, primary education is in shambles, higher education is getting out of reach for more people, we're in an ill-advised war with no end in sight and it's costing us a lot of money - the degree to which most people who can't even comprehend how it will end up affecting them and their children.
Time to deconstruct. You're right - everyone should proudly proclaim themselves an elitist. And a populist.
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For Your Consideration
[Read the article: Goodbye to the Fix, for now]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I thought The Fix was okay - probably because it read exactly like what it was, culled from other sources. I would hear these items in triplicate throughout the day and didn't care much about most of it to begin with.
What might be a nice experiment is a classier version of The Fix, something with a pre-24 hour cable television feel to it. Reports on real artists and writers as opposed to the adolescent who has made a lot of money on very limited talent.
I'm not suggesting that the same vain, self-destructive tendencies don't exist outside of the ex-Mickey Mouse Club set, but it's usually more pithy and interesting.
I do agree with the others who want the talk show listings to return; I checked those everyday.