Letters to the Editor
Silverback66
Published Letters: 176 Editor's Choice: 26
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How hard is this?
[Read the article: In the battle over choice, what about dads?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When Conley and his kind can offer the option of transferring the fetus to their own bellies, and of taking all the risks of birth and raising and deadbeat moms, then and only then they should be permitted to express an opinion on abortion.
(It might happen. I have a former law partner whose personality strongly suggests that anal intercourse in not an infallible contraceptive.)
Until that time, let's recognize the sly homilies of the fetus-worshippers for what they are: a subset of the fundamentalists' worship of human beings (most specifically themselves) as the center of the universe and the beginning and ending of time.
By the way, in all the jurisdictions I know, and I don't pretend to know all of them, Mom has no power to waive the child's right to be supported by the biological parent, and the statute of limitations doesn't begin to run on the child's right to collect until the child reaches majority.
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Rev Pat
[Read the article: Pat Robertson: God is punishing Ariel Sharon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What is a mystery is why anyone takes Pat Robertson seriously anymore.
Err,...
Maybe because his name keeps appearing even in places like Salon?
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Gimme an S...
[Read the article: No s-e-x on Valentine's Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At first blush, it's a wonder that these folks ever manage to reproduce. What bedroom could be dark enough? But upon reflection, there's no one on the planet so obsessed with sex as a fundamentalist. They see it everywhere, and fear it anywhere, since it might divert cash and attention from the money-collection palaces that are our modern churches, mosques, synagogues, TV channels and web-sites.
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Excuse me, but
[Read the article: Enron: Bad apple or poisoned orchard]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"willful lack of ignorance"?
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Debt
[Read the article: The losing generation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's a good thing for both Republicans and Democrats that their children can't read numbers nor understand history. If they could see what the Republicans are doing, and the Democrats are letting them do, children would rise up and smother their parents in their sleep. The individual debt that Generation Debt has personally incurred is chump change compared to the national debt that their parents will leave them as an inverse birthright.
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Bounce
[Read the article: Ladies, are your breasts too bouncy?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]OK, you made me look. I smiled, so sue me. Shall we revisit the porn post?
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Intelligent design?
[Read the article: I, Nanobot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is mankind's purpose on earth to create its successor? How ironic if it turns out that Homo sapiens was the Intelligent Designer.
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Terri
[Read the article: DeLay: Threatened judges still don't "get it"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just for openers, her name was Terri. If you would presume to speak for her, you should care enough to spell it correctly.
The real "Terri Schiavo" was long since dead before the medical community made her a zombie and the wingnuts made her a poster child.
Considering that her brain was not only dead but half of it was missing, the fundamentalists' sense of affinity is understandable.
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This I know
[Read the article: Sinners in the hands of an angry GOP]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't know, maybe there is a God. I can't prove that there's not, any more than the wingnuts can prove that there is.
I also don't know, maybe there is a Heaven. Can't prove that there's not.
One thing I know for sure. If there is a God and there is a Heaven, and God has decided that the folks at this conference are going there, then I would much rather go to Hell.
Actually, it's hard to imagine a better definition of Hell than being condemned to spend eternity in the company of people who take Tom Delay seriously.
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Katie
[Read the article: Couric-crazy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe you have to live on the East Coast to understand why anyone would care which millionaire talking head sits where.
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The Stupid Vote
[Read the article: Bush's new strategy: Appear less smart]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What the Republicans discovered with Saint Ronnie is that a substantial plurality of the American electorate is as dumb as a box of rocks. What's the matter with Kansas is that a majority of the voters are stupid. Why worry about things like deficits if you can't read numbers nor newspapers?
The Democrats haven't had a leader at the national level who appealed to the Stupid Vote since "Jack," and that largely posthumously. Until they find another, we're stuck with what we deserve.
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Bodies
[Read the article: The significance of Rove's job change]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Unless Rove volunteers to drink the hemlock, his job is safe so long as Bush sits behind the decider desk. Who else knows where so many of the Bush bodies are buried?
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Politicians
[Read the article: Federal agent: Corruption probe is "much bigger" than Cunningham]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The quote belongs to Al Lewis: "America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling."
It will take generations to undo the damage that dates back to Saint Ronnie. And we deserve it.
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Statistics
[Read the article: It's like Chris Matthews said: Only the "real whack jobs" dislike Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That UFO statistic clears up a few things. Thanks, Tim.
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Eternity
[Read the article: "Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If these folks are right about Heaven, then I choose to go to Hell.