Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 15
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Office primates.
[Read the article: Office romance: Is dating a co-worker dangerous?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]More highly evolved primates--office or otherwise--have learned this truth:
Do not shit where you eat.
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Joan, I think I love you.
[Read the article: Mission accomplished]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Later it turned out that the White House advance team had produced the banner, but administration officials continued to claim it was at the Navy's behest."
Yeah, we've never seen that strategy from this administration before. Maybe it'll work for them this time. You know, or not.
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RE: the puppy-dog theory of terrorism
[Read the article: Last refuge of the scoundrel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But I thought that the surge was supposed to work if we just gave it a chance? If you think the Arab world hates us now, wait until we surge another 20,000 rapists and assorted other violent felons into Iraq. They are going to positively LOVE us!
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I've been saying it for years...
[Read the article: The right's explicit and candid rejection of "the rule of law"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...and the Military Tribunal Act of 2006 was what really sealed the deal for me, but this Administration has been, deliberately or through shear stupidity, rolling back the clock on the liberties this country was founded on.
The Executive is supposed to be the weakest of the three branches. It's set up that way so that we don't have another "King George."
Do you hear me, Mr. Bush? Of course not. You're too busy listening to your imaginary friend.
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Historicizing Falwell.
[Read the article: The stone is cast]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To the extent that history will remember him, it will be as a politician, not as a preacher.
I disagree. I think that history will record him as typical of his religion. Not in his extremism, mind you, but in the divisiveness of his faith.
Fuck him. He was a bigot, and his life should not even be a footnote to history. Let him be stricken from the records, along with all his ilk.
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re: plan B
[Read the article: A timetable for withdrawal? How about "a few decades"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And do the Iraqis also have a contingency plan for several decades of occupation?
I'm sure they do. In a word: resistance.
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Bravo, Keith.
[Read the article: Keith Olbermann calls it "betrayal"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There are two things that we need to start saying to ourselves and one another aloud and often and in the media:
"The soldiers are dying for nothing."
"The Democratic leadership has agreed to finance the death of Americans."
Thanks, Keith for having the courage to say it.
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Let's do the time warp again...
[Read the article: Major troop reductions imminent -- again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"War supporters give the same false assurances over and over, often verbatim, and the press trumpets them each time."
It's like 2002 all over again. And '03, and '04. 2005 wasn't a good year either.
Let us never speak of 2006 ever again.
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In the internet vernacular...
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]pwn't.
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contempt of congress
[Read the article: Taylor declines to answer questions]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The problem with citing her for contempt of Congress--should they elect to pursue that route--is that the citation goes to the Attorney General, whose duty it is to put together a grand jury and begin criminal proceedings. That's right: Alberto Gonzales.
Congress, however, cannot compel him to actually do anything with the citation. It would be a meaningless gesture. How incestuous is this relationship between the White House and the DOJ? =/
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Ditch Rabbit Bites.
[Read the article: Goodbye to Audiofile]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree with some of my fellows that Video Dog needs retooling or it needs to go. As for Audiofile, I could personally take it or leave it.
Glad to hear about the expanded War Room, though.
Now, can we see more Joan?
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Way to support the troops...
[Read the article: Bush was against a pay raise for the troops before he was for it]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dou***bags.
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Not to split hairs, Glenn...
[Read the article: Carl Levin reveals the Democrats' Iraq "strategy"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Iraq is so disintegrated, so ethnically cleansed, so broken that, as Rosen points out, it does not really exist as an entity any longer...
"Iraq" never actually existed to begin with: as I'm sure you're aware, it was an artificial country to begin with. Presumably you mean that post-Saddam, it cannot be said to exist as a unified nation any longer, but that's an argument that's already been made.
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The White House is "disappointed."
[Read the article: Craig: No love from the president]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's got to be a misquote. I think it's supposed to read "the White House is disappointing."
Yeah, that's better.
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suggested reading on the topic of modern masculinity
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man," by Susan Faludi. I consider it required reading, as it's the (IMHO) definite book on what has been called "the crisis of masculinity in today's America."
If you haven't read it, Glenn, I would strongly suggest it; as I've been reading a lot of your posts lately, I find myself thinking back to it again and again.