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I am 2/3 through an engaging book, "My Life in Stalinist Russia," By Mary Leder, an American whose parents moved to Russia with her and her younger sister in 1931 when she was a girl of 16.
She describes how terrible it was when everyone became suspect and when everybody was expected to spy on each other. She describes how millions of idealists were thrown into an unworkable cauldron of suspicion, incompetence, fear and hate.
Some of this kind of thing is still going on in Russia today where critics are found murdered on a weekly basis. Listening to Glennn, you'd think that kind of stuff was going on here.
Stalin called people like Glennn "useful idiots."
Could it happen here? Could Glennn and many like him so weaken our nation that, sooner than we would like, another Stalin will show up to 'save' us?
Here's a guy who lives here, just waiting, like the 'trolls' he pretends to despise, and, when one or two people show up, like, say, Calamine or Me or Rocky Balboa, he goes into overdrive with multiple insulting, denigrating posts, feeling I'm sure cheered on by the flock of rooks here, who seem to enjoy a kind of daily comaradeirie with him.
And, what does Dershbag do when somebody stands up to him and calls him out, away from his little mob, his little flock of rooks?
Can this bitter little twit stand up when his multiple insults are addressed and countered?
No, he runs to dear old Glennn, begging him to ban whomever stood up to his pathetic and impotent multiple little assaults.
He lavishes insults in his posts which far outnumber any other poster here, and, when someone stands up to him, he runs to Glennn and tries to gain allies to also run to Glennn to get him to ban anyone who does not appreciate being assaulted for differing with the prevailing world view here.
Gosh Dershbag, why don't you get yourself a real life? Aren't you a little old to still be the class clown?
I was the class clown too, but I was 10. My Mother hated our rabbi, whose wife taught my Sunday School class. They were from Brooklyn, and my Mum found their accent crude, and, one Sunday, the Rebbitzah was telling us about a looming drought in ancient Egypt, and remembered when there was a water shortage back in Brooklyn so, as she said, "WE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE ENOUGH WATTA FOR OUR CAWFFFE."
So, ten year old me yelled out, "we didn't even have enough WATTA for our CAWWWFEE!"
and the whole class burst out laughing with me and she couldn't get us to stop laughing , and, she said, 'Newberry, they're not laughing WITH you, they are laughing AT you." At that point, I said , "They're not laughing WITH you, they are laughing AT you!" and I literally fell out of my chair rolling around on the floor laughing.
Pandemoneum broke out, and the poor woman ran from the room to get help.
So here is Dershbag Loser, acting like 10 year old me, certain he is very very funny.
And, yet, he races from the room calling for Glennn whenever he feels bested.
I taught Transcendental Meditation at San Quentin. There are multiple layers of reality and bullshit which go on at a prison like that. I had experienced Vietnam but it was not as terrible as San Quentin. Here were guys who would tell me all about their pet cats and also show me the home made knives in their socks. We got along fine. Mister Dershbag, they would have destroyed you. They did not like punks.
I hope I am not outing you, but if you are Marc Steyn, Canada's greatest living treasure, please raise your hand.
I bet Glennn thinks you are "intellectually dishonest" too. I think you are the funnyiest political satirist of our time, much better than Jackie Mason.
I know that even though you have a vaguely Jewish name, you are not Jewish.. You are blueish though, a righteous gentile if there ever was one.
Please tell them to get Neil Young to write a better anthem for your country, please. That OHHHHHHHH CANAAAAAAAAADUUUUUU is so boring boring boring makes you want to puke.
Next to the little children, music is my life. I even wait on tables at Village Gate long long ago, and get to see Nina Simone and Arsenio Rodriguez making the peoples dance between the tables spilling drinks all over the place. Monday Night was Latin Night, and was my favorite though the people from Spanish Harlem did not have too much money for drinks and tips, they understand rhythm and percussion better than anybody I think.
Pop Music used to include Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Rolling Stones, Neil Young {"Cortez" my fav}, Stevie Wonder, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding too. It all got horrid in the '70s for some reason. I was there in Haight-Ashbury at the Panhandle for free Grateful Dead concerts and the Human Be In at GG Park, Mister Kitt. I would not marry her, but Madonna is one heck of singer, dancer, even actress in Evita which I like very much, and one thing I got to hand it to 0bama is for stopping Hillary from being the next Evita. I think Madonna puts Brittany to shame, tho I would not love either of them at all because they are both way too high strung and very very shallow. Stevie Nicks is more my type. Nicole Kidman is very wonderful too, and she sings like an angel very soft and sweet. She will always be most beautiful woman in the world, which tells you all you need to know about Mister Scientology, Tom Crewz.