Letters to the Editor
jk rowling
Published Letters: 30 Editor's Choice: 1
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Patient US
[Read the article: Hospital, USA]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Laura has taken us into a drama that appeals to "shockmongers" simply for its everpresent threat in all our lives. We go to the hospital: we may have to go in minutes. The multicultural reality is that humans are mortal, and suffering as a result.
Why review this book instead of one about success, etc.? An after-effect of reading too much political mixed-up message is: Can this society be saved - at all? "Hospital" is a metaphor of tragic, uncontrollable, lottery-lucky or damned-to-eternity prognosis for us. Perhaps not unlike a MidEast war, terrorism that cannot be extinguished because its root causes - Orthodox Zionists insist that nothing can be negotiated with Palestine peoples because because because - remain unlimited without end.
Yes, the rascism of diaspora appears in this narrative as with any group that insists upon autonomous function in a foreign society. Who sees The Chinese as the up-and-coming threat to this community of medical/financial/cultural problems? Almost no one after reading this piece - people who are willing to give up, die are the meat-and-potatoes of mythic "stoicism" - about the forces at work in a complex hierarchy community.
We want to believe that they will be there for us, but as this tale clearly indicates, conflicts, bottlenecks and egos rule - against our chances.
If the book is as good as her last outing bashing Hollywood, sales will exceed all expectations, and the cancer of publishing an accurate, dramatic, personalized institutional memoir will go into remission. The oncologists may be surprised.
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HItler vs. Ahmajine-dhaddy
[Read the article: "Hardball": Barack Obama is no Neville Chamberlain ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Chris Matthews is pretty good for a TV show host who obviously despises Hillary and The Clinton legacy. "Appeasement" in the coming media-hate attack may devolve to torquing Bush's views on MidEast affairs so they appear "rational" or "proactively engaging" of a very violent period... of needless conflict.
If the object of an interviewer is to elicit greater expertise on a topic than previously revealed, then Matthews has done us a great service in debunking the myth of hate-radio hosts as sources of real knowledge... and respectability.
They tend to be despicable due to the Cardinal Sin of Omission more often than outright ignorance - of the whole damned thing being discussed. But because you raised the ugly issue, Mr. Leonard - don't you think Salon ought to rebuke attackers with deft research and radically-correct intel regarding history?
a. Obama's speech and subsequent acts
b. Bush's speech and consequent actions
c. The dire state of MidEast conflict; effect on world powers
d. Why in the hell George II can get away with such drivel!
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I Want to Do HoneyBeeGirl and Heather...
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sigh... oh well, it's not to be. The 70's are gone, blasted away by monolithic media and dumbed-down U.S. pop culture as filtered by TV robo-exec stupidiacs.
Where is Nixon when you need him? Since Ronnie Raygun ruined working-class hopes, America has been down in the depressive, You-Can't-Say-That dumps, at least on TV. Movies are another matter - "Animal House" has a nude scene with a giant dildo - something that cannot be exhibited today as it competes with the Current Whitey House Occupant.
When I attended college and graduate school in The States, all my peers were trying to fuck each other just to see what the hell was contained in the other's brain - hence, the honored phrase, "fucking one's brains out" became natty and pop-u-lar. It was left to The 80's for America to rebound into artistic expressiveness and white feminist makeover/takeover (with the music of Madonna, Cindy Lauper, Annie Lennox, etc.)
CBS is home to "Survivor," "Big Brother" and "LOST," all of which show that a Demo-GRAPHICALLY illustrated old-folks' network can become relevant to the surging hormones of a new generation of mesmerized TV watchers... nevermind the Net or new media when all one has to do is "click" to join the homo sapiens party.
Pass me the bong - I'm horny - "Love will keep us together."
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Six Degrees of Integration
[Read the article: Condensed literature]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tell it like it is, please. Reduce me, just don't seduce me. If this thing works, we win. Western civilization is literature plus redactductibility. Out of Africa, into White House. It loses ourselves, it finds market. Makes no sense, sufferance, sudden relevance.
Of all the games to play with lit., "headlining" sums up our mutual and irreversible predicament: It's all just opinion now.
But moderated neurotically by cultural bias, personal choice, nouveau novelty a la pop iconography, Salon filter or others', economic experience, instinctive prejudice and knowledge-based lies, distortions and ultimately, discrimination - we live.
Socrates was shit. Plato rebelled a bit in "The Republic." In the entertainment franchise that is western cibibleization, right meets wrong, not democracy or literary expression. Reduce it to instant code, pollywogs. It's fun to rant, Kant.
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It depends what story you're living in
[Read the article: Clinton suspends campaign, endorses Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary Rodham Clinton just caved. OR, Hillary went as far as she could, and retains power via popularity. OR, now the bad guys will have their chance to destroy Obama, using the most egregious network of weaponry possible, and Hillary can assist the Dems in fighting back against hate.
Pick a story. The election of '08 is either about taking back a people's democracy vs. corporate greed and incompetence in the White House, or about changing the very process of doing business in running the United States. I prefer the latter, because unlike Hillary's unrealized goal, Obama's appeals to just about everyone who isn't rich, or brainwashed to believe that religious issues + spouting God = righteousness.
Hillary's speech - put into perspective - is about a natural, historic evolutionary path that shall yield a woman prez next time a good candidate runs. Believe it, or not. But if you doubt the sincerity and power of her candidacy, recognize that this is the very first concession speech ever delivered by a major party woman candidate for Pres. of The United States.
Not only was her speech great, it is a historic document of the times. The world was watching, and now it is listening to what can only be breathtaking in superpower domination.