Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 847 Editor's Choice: 9
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@sugarman
[Read the article: Majority of Israelis want to negotiate with Hamas]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I hate to tread once again on well worn ground, but..
Can you *please* make an argument that doesn't attack someone else's "intelligence"?
I know you worship at the temple of racist IQ testing, but, please, tone it down!
IQ tests are racist. Do not preface your arguments by assailing someone's "intelligence." We know what you mean. We get it.
Try arguing against the substance of the argument that has been presented to you.
I know that might put you on weak footing, but, I hope you are "intelligent" enough to work through it.
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No..
[Read the article: Does Obama's baritone give him an edge?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]His policy positions give him the edge, you f*cking moron.
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Yikes..
[Read the article: Interview with Bill Donohue: Catholic League denounces McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If Hagee or Donahue were on fire, I'd piss on them to put it out, but only so that I could hold it against them later than atheists do, indeed, have morals.
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Giving this story some legs
[Read the article: The McCain/Hagee story picks up steam]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wonder if, as a Catholic, Stephen Colbert would be interested in picking up on this issue.
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Sugarman and the False Dichotomy
[Read the article: Majority of Israelis want to negotiate with Hamas]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sounds like a Harry Potter book, but its as serious as cancer.
David, I have no love for Islam. The historical Mohamed is what I would consider to be a lunatic and a pedophile. I have no love for those who claim to be followers of Jesus, a religion which is an incoherent portmanteau of paganism, Mithraism and Semetic religions whose modern day followers couldn't have strayed further from the "red letters" if they tried.
I admire Islamic, Christian and Jewish reformers who at least try to bend their dogma to the realities of modern life. But I find all of them to have the same flaw: each one is based on an unprovable premise of the existence and sentience of God.
I have no love for the murderers of the Canaanites, if that actually happened. I do not believe that any deity has granted the sons of Abraham claim to any parcel of land.
I do not believe that your statistics about the intelligence of Arabs is anything other than juked and slanted, just as the claims of racial intelligence were slanted at the turn of the 20th century and used by Eugenicists to codify racism into our institutions.
Access to education, poverty and oppression effect the outcome of these test. To say that Arabs are idiot cockroaches is no less racist than if I were to claim that inner city blacks were inferior.
But getting back to the false dichotomy. You say, well, "we must have a means of evaluating who is worth more and who is worth less."
Why?
Because it is "us versus them."
Who would you rather die, yourself, a fellow Jew, or a dirty, fecund Arab? Well, the cockroach Arab, of course!
But why this dichotomy? Isn't there another choice, somewhere in the middle of "us versus them?" Shouldn't that be left as the "route of last resort?" To you, it seems not. Shoot first, ask questions later.
Here's my point: choose to start de-escalating, or eventually someone more powerful than Israel and AIPAC will come along and MAKE YOU CHILDREN BEHAVE.
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Senator Clinton's "Daisy" moment?
[Read the article: Newest Clinton ad plays on security fears]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gross. Utterly reprehensible.
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Lester
[Read the article: Hot off "The Wire"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bringing it back to season 1, did anyone catch Lester dropping Chardine's name after drinking at the tracks? The end of the first season tipped out with him closing the door to his office while talking to her.
References are made to her in season 2 (where we learn that she is living with Freamon) and again I think in season 3. That old dog!..
Daniels will certainly not make captain with McNulty's mess, nor Carcetti Governor (or Carcetti for President, 2012). Hopefully McNulty is soured enough that, if asked to resign, he would.
Real justice for McNulty would be for him to be failed upward and made a manager,.. Sargeant McNulty? Leutenent McNulty?
That's the kind of hell Jimmy deserves.
"Deserve ain't got nothing to do wid it."
True nuff, Snoop.
Someone, years ago when seaon 4 was just getting under way, said on TWoP that they hoped that Simon wouldn't hurt those poor Middle School children. Well, the end of season 4 was pretty damn brutal, but after seeing what's come of Dukie, Bug, Mike and Randy at the end of season 5, I am once again awestruck by just how bad it could get.
I knew, but I didn't want to see it. But I watch anyway. How can I look away. Bravo, Simon.
None of those poor kids "deserve" what life has doled out to them.
I think I have something stuck in my eye now, you'll have to excuse me ;)
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oops
[Read the article: Hot off "The Wire"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]s/captain/chief of police/
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Media "Watchdog"
[Read the article: What Howard Kurtz means by "media scrutiny"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In the Senate, this role of making sure that the right-wing attack machine was on-message would be performed by the, pardon me, "minority whip."
Perhaps we should start calling Kurtz et al "minority whips" to bring into sharp focus just what it is they are in fact doing.
Pun intended.