Letters to the Editor
lupercus
Published Letters: 170
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honesty
[Read the article: I'm cheating on my husband and loving it. Is that a problem?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Good relationships are not always built on complete and utter honesty. Sometimes, it's kinder or smarter or better to dissemble a little.
I am having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that all the defenses of cheating keep coming back to this ridiculous point.
Folks: cheating on your spouse is not "dissembling a little." It is not a fastidious attachment to "complete and utter honesty" that keeps me from completely deceiving the woman I love.
One would think you'd at least have enough self-respect to at least lie creatively to yourselves.
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@Kitt
[Read the article: John Edwards' dark leftist America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow. I didn't know it was that easy and quick to edit a wiki entry.
White House deputy press secretary Tony Fratto learned how easy:
http://wonkette.com/assets/resources/2007/10/fratto1.jpg
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"The executive has no fear of being held accountable to the law."
[Read the article: Telecom amnesty would forever foreclose investigation of vital issues]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Take it away, Comrade Goldstein:
A Party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the Thought Police. Even when he is alone he can never be sure that he is alone. Wherever he may be, asleep or awake, working or resting, in his bath or in bed, he can be inspected without warning and without knowing that he is being inspected. Nothing that he does is indifferent. His friendships, his relaxations, his behaviour towards his wife and children, the expression of his face when he is alone, the words he mutters in sleep, even the characteristic movements of his body, are all jealously scrutinized. Not only any actual misdemeanour, but any eccentricity, however small, any change of habits, any nervous mannerism that could possibly be the symptom of an inner struggle, is certain to be detected. He has no freedom of choice in any direction whatever. On the other hand his actions are not regulated by law or by any clearly formulated code of behaviour.
In Oceania there is no law.
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@ Robert
[Read the article: Telecom amnesty would forever foreclose investigation of vital issues]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Does the term "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated" mean anything to you?
Privacy for the people and transparency for the government, not the other way around.
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"you can't change 'em into liberals or progressives"
[Read the article: The conservative vision of America, by National Review]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tyler, right about now I'd give my left nut for some good old One World Order Bush I Republicans.
I don't want everyone in the country to think like me. I'd just like a little fracking sanity.
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P.O. Box 1142
[Read the article: The conservative vision of America, by National Review]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://tinyurl.com/385cun:
P.O. Box 1142 ... is Fort Hunt Park just off the George Washington Memorial Parkway in southeastern Fairfax County's Mount Vernon District.
During World War II it was the site for two "super top-secret" intelligence programs of the U.S. military. MIS-Y involved the systematic interrogation of Axis prisoners-of-war.
Now ya know.
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F-day
[Read the article: The conservative vision of America, by National Review]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I really wish we had someone of the stature (!) of Beppe Grillo in this country. For those that don't follow Italian politics (which I recommend if you want to feel better about American politics), Grillo is a Genovese comedian who got half a million people out on the street in Italy protesting corrupt and disconnected politics.
He called it V-Day: V for vaffanculo ("go fuck yourself").
http://www.beppegrillo.it/eng/2007/06/vaffanculoday.html
Maybe we could call it F-day. It looks more and more like we could get people from the left and right out on the street..
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And al-Qaeda
[Read the article: The conservative vision of America, by National Review]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...doesn't have thousands of nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles pointed at our cities.
Are you, Tiberius, literally saying that some guys in a cave are a greater danger to us than THAT?
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@EDL, viz. "tak[ing] it down a notch"
[Read the article: Nepotistic tough guys and their coddling parents]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...why is it that no one's opinion is ever mistaken, misguided, misinformed, etc., but rather, the screed of a fucking loser troll? Isn't this what Fox News is for?"
"no one?" "ever?"
Are you sure it's this comments thread you're reading? I have been lurking and posting, here and at UT, for quite some time now, and I can't say that I can recall when anyone being called a troll who was not actually trolling (i.e. shooter, nasalfiber, realname in her/his various incarnations, etc). Certainly, elbows do get thrown, but it seems pretty bizarre to me that you cast such a blanket condemnation on the level of dialogue around here. The marginally respectful debate that shooter gets, pretty much despite his best efforts, seems a pretty good refutation of your claim.
May I suggest that perhaps the best way to encourage civility is to lead by example? Kitt's expressing in a more succinct and salty way what many of us probably feel: nobody likes a scold.
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@EDL
[Read the article: Nepotistic tough guys and their coddling parents]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I looked in your history and found your post about Hemingway, which may be to what you're referring. As I remember that thread, it was like Fight Club with HTML... just a long knock-down drag-out. Generally the threads are more tame, but once in a while we seem to like a bar brawl.
As far as "temperature," well, suum cuique pulchrum est, but there's also that saying about kitchens...
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@shooter
[Read the article: AT&T, other telecoms, buy victory in lawsuits]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Enjoy.
Heh.
Have fun doing your little end-zone dance; I'll still have your back when you're complaining about how President Hillary wants to use all these great domestic surveillance powers "your" side has given her.
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meh...
[Read the article: The Weekly Standard mentality and the Senate Intelligence Committee]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the "war on drugs" is not a war on an abstract noun. Thus, it is the sort of thing that could be totally eradicated
I'm sensible of the distinction, but it seems to me to be a distinction without a difference. Since "drugs" are nothing more than "chemicals," would a "war on chemicals" make any more sense? A campaign to rid the physical universe of alkaloids?
True, it is concrete, rather than abstract, but this idea of declaring "war on" non-humans seems flawed at its centre, regardless what the indirect object is...