Letters to the Editor
Ectoid
Published Letters: 20
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If you hate elitest souless French theory then you understand Paglia
[Read the article: If we leave Iraq, do we lose for good?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I regret to say that I have spent time in an American graduate program where I was exposed to professors espousing post-structuralist theory. I don't think I'm alone in being disillusioned by this faction's hijacking of traditional, liberal, democratic core values, which should be concerned with workers, health care, education and seeing to it that the government represents our interests abroad and at home.
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good article
[Read the article: Cupid's science]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You know the article is good when letter writers start quibbling about which is the ring finger, etc. and feel offended by the suggestion that they may not be normal performers in sex or in romance, (and get a little uncomfortable at the suggestion of a link between sex and love.) What are we going to do?
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Camille Paglia
[Read the article: Queen Hillary's disruptive court]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What I liked about her is that she somehow communicates intellectual observations about seemingly mundane topics. This time, however, I'm beginning to see what so many other letter writers have said: self-glorifying fluff ball. She's lost touch with reality.
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agree with others.
[Read the article: Minding our health]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This Medical historian falls into the trap that historians tend to fall into: that is cold-playing the individual's aspirations, relegating the notion of the soul to the status of cheap atavism, and suggesting that people who accept 20-20 hindsight reality are the alpha males and females and society. Oh, and everyone else is a rebellious loser.
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Both seemed noble and both are skilled debaters. Hillary's a little better.
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's Texas-size moment ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Like most democrats I will vote for either one.
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It's just that she
[Read the article: The dude vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]voted for the war in Iraq and supported Lieberman's war resolution for Iran. That's all and she's the centrist candidate here, just like Bill Clinton.
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american women
[Read the article: The dude vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]are the female version of the dislocated American animal. How do you like your imperialism and your hypocritical religious bigotry? Female flavor or male flavor? It doesn't matter and talking about is pointless. Do you like the Lakers or the Celtics?
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War Room Lacks the wit
[Read the article: Obama hits back at Clinton ad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I enjoyed before it changed hands. Now it's just the game of reporting just facts and so that you may decide.
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she voted for the war in Iraq
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and voted to give Bush the authority to start a new war in Iran.
Obama didn't vote.
Not a good choice, but a choice.
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The one reason to vote Hillary
[Read the article: Can the Clinton campaign take the heat?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is that she is shameless enough to do just about anything to get elected or get legislation passed. Politics and democracy are messy, right?
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Enough with Hillary defence. Go back to the woods.
[Read the article: Obama says Clinton ad "straight out of the Republican playbook"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All you who demand Obama respond to every playground fight started by Hillary and call that the standard of toughness are really just secretly in bed with Rove and the neocons. Enough already. The intelligent way to deal with a gadfly or political bully is to respond like a reasonable parent, but not to sully one's hands by joining the silly fray. There are more important matters to discuss, such as the economy, gas prices, Israel, Sudan, and the Iraq fiasco/boondoggle.
If Ann Richards were running for office no one would be attacking her on grounds of authenticity. The same goes for Barbara Jordan, Margaret Thatcher, or Angela Merkel. At long last it's not the gender, it's the rejection of political dynasties, political machines, subterfuge, and the inept pretense to having feelings and heart.
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Her articles trails off at the end
[Read the article: Hillary's race against time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And I don't think Elizabeth Taylor that alluring or sexy in the linked Life magazine cover. I just see cancer stick and cancer skin. But overall Paglia's a nice counterpart to Glen Greenwald as a reason to read Salon.
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Alex ,
[Read the article: Michaels denies "SNL" is pro-Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you do only partial justice to your war room story. The other part is what the viewers actually see in the skits. Tina Fey said to vote for Clinton in the show's fake editorial section.
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We deserve McCain
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]McCain is correct in saying that American can only get behind a center right candidate (which is far right in Europe).
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Snarky, sarcastic?
[Read the article: Exploiting women to protect animals?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]These are words you use to describe others, but contentless snark and too-cool-to-take-a-stand sarcasm are the only things this article really expresses.
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New War Room editor guy
[Read the article: Richardson said Obama can't beat McCain?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't get your points a lot of the time.
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House of Cards argument
[Read the article: Why Hillary Clinton should be winning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The author knows it. This is just provocation.
The lynch pin of his "what ifs" arguments rests on the weak assumption that Obama doesn't really have a commanding lead in the popular vote tallies because of some "stealth campaign" by Obama activists in Michigan and some advertising in Florida. Remove those assumptions and it all goes kapunk.
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What this means
[Read the article: What Pennsylvania tells us]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is that people believe she's tough enough to do something crazy to secure jobs and security for the American people. Pretty frickin sad.
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you see things others don't
[Read the article: I was wrong about Wright]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but remember white people can make fun of blacks right back. It's fine and dandy to do so in good fun. The world won't end as a result.
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the pettiness and shrillness of it all
[Read the article: Was Hillary channeling George Wallace?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]these small people who say they will vote for McCain because their horse lost the race is appalling. If there is a crisis in American democracy and culture, it is based in deficiencies in critical thinking. How were Americans able to reelect Bush in a response to fear-mongering and gay-baiting? Witness voters willing to crossing political lines over non-issues, and you have a glimpse into the mindset responsible for past electoral disasters.