Letters to the Editor
kenwolman
Published Letters: 70 Editor's Choice: 3
-
Crimes and crimes
[Read the article: When principles aren't enough]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If Edwards lasts until Super Tuesday (my God, is every fucking thing in this moronic country defined in football terms??), I will vote for him. And I will do so with some trepidation. What if Edwards were to perform a miracle and surge toward the front of the pack pushing aside Obama and Clinton? He would do so because he attacked the pharmaceutical and insurance interests, two businesses you'd better not cross in this country. I fear for his life. I do not put it past those firms to look the other way while "someone" takes Edwards out. He is, for them, a clear and present danger.
-
My laugh for the day
[Read the article: Bill Gates and Wal-Mart want to save the world]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I will believe anything coming from the chairman of WalMart like I will believe George Bush is sober.
-
Too much
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I take a 6 AM train from Jersey to New York every morning because I actually work for a living. I get to stare at a poster for Millionaire Matchmaker and gaze my eyes upon a cheesy slut with a Cupid bow and a face I haven't seen since Alexander's on Fordham Road closed during the Hoover administration. And I ask "Why isn't the Bible literal so that God can send fire down to destroy this whore country?"
-
Forever hypocrisy
[Read the article: The "gray rape" myth]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am one of those pariah adult STRAIGHT males (I'm 64) who has never been a "guy," i.e., I despise the concept of being "one of the guys" because the guys invariably are misogynistic jerks and life to them is a penis-waving contest regardless of whether the situation is sexual. I was a college student in the early 1960s in New York and, then as now, a woman was prey. She could be spoken of as a "cunt" and "piece of meat"--and this has not changed. She could be implicitly held accountable if some male forced himself upon her. This attitude extended even to the ever-moronic cops. I doubt very much that 30 years of sensitivity training done by instructors with their tongues in each others' cheeks has had a transforming effect. Women in corporations are still hit on by senior male management. Cops still regard women as the primary suspects in their own violation. At a campus near where I live, a 2nd rate college, the national sport is indiscriminate and often non-consensual fucking. Even on junior high school buses in the area, girls get into favor with the "right" people by sucking off 12 year olds.
All the fine talk in the world doesn't change the cesspool of American puritanical culture. Ms. Clark-Flory's video is just one more evidence that we are hopeless and beyond changing.
-
Telling the truth can be a dangerous business
[Read the article: Clinton camp uses "monster" comment for fundraising appeal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The boys in "Ishtar" nailed it. Hillary happens to be a monster, but saying so...telling the truth while on any job, in or out of politics...can waste you.
-
The sentient and spiritual nature of domestic animals
[Read the article: An Olympic disgrace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anyone who has lived with a cat or dog...anyone who has left himself or herself open to communication with that animal...that person has been privileged to understand how effectively and powerfully cats and (especially) dogs communicate with us. Right, of course I am nuts for saying this. Of course I am anthropomorphizing if I ascribe a soul and spirit to a "dumb" animal, I must be one of those PETA lunatics! But I have had a cat tell me through her eyes and face that she wanted me to let her go because, at age 17, life had become unbearable for her. I have felt the forgiveness flow into me when I lost my temper at our dog and hit him. I have learned that people have sophisticated themselves out of contact with the soul that lives in those animals. Yes: I eat meat. I wear leather. I am not the plastic-and-rope-wearing prophet in the desert who thinks that all animals are sacrosanct. No, you do not abuse any animal lest you become what you do. But in the special case of domestic pets, for millenia part of our households and our lives, you do not descend to butchery, torture, and a place on the menu. You do not kill and eat somethingn with a soul that can talk to yours if you are not so closed-off and ignorant that you can't sense it's there.
-
I thought that was a model!
[Read the article: Tangled up in Dylan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bzzzzztttt! Wrong! A real girly womanly female feminine dame! Sounds like someone with a lovely personality too, forgiving and entertaining at the same time. He stepped out on her with Joan Baez? Not a knock of Baez, but Dylan could be as big an asshole as any man with outdoor plumbing.
-
Flag pins and Carmen Miranda hats?
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is this flag pin deal for real? Does anyone really give a damn? Why the hell are we in this country so hung up on the symbolism of a piece of cloth? I remember reading that the British navy, when a flag wears out, tear it up and give it to the sailors so they can buff their shoes. Wanna get a real fight going, say "Flag Burning" and see what happens.
Obama is a schmuck with or without the flag pin. I'd have a smidgen of respect for him if he didn't wear it. As for Hillary, who cares? That woman and her husband will wreck the Democratic party and turn it over to that senile old man before they'll cooperate with Obama during the run for the White House.
Flag pins. Jesus Christ, how fucking infantile a country are we?
-
Why are we reluctant to do the obvious?
[Read the article: Zimbabwe's descent into electoral terror]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Somewhere, the combined knowledge of the CIA, Mossad, and MI-6 could park someone in Zimbabwe to "surgically" remove Mugabe. Which is to say, we could and must kill the sonofabitch. Now, that's not nice to say, but waiting for this fiend to die is tantamount to reloading the weapons of the security forces around the old guy. We here always seem to pick the wrong fight. If Zimbabwe had oil, Mugabe would have been dead five years ago.
-
Oh, really?
[Read the article: Jesse Helms dies on July 4th]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I had forgotten he was alive. Now he's not. It makes no difference.