Letters to the Editor
Godsilly
Published Letters: 54 Editor's Choice: 4
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Is it even possible for us to leave?
[Read the article: Daddy issues]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Is it even possible for us to leave? If we leave, what happens to our oil supply? What happens in Saudia Arabia?"
And that is precisely why the "run up to the war" appeared like some insane foregone conclusion no matter what doubts were spoken even by loyalists, or how many lies were proved. It was all about just getting in there under any pretext. There would be no way out planned. Ever.
I remember Jon Stewart sincerely asking Richard Clark what motivation they could have possibly had for doing such a poor job of every aspect of the planning and implimentation. They both just shook there heads in wonder.
I believe Richard knew, like Eisenhower knew, but there are some things you just don't say loud and in public - without fear of taking an unplanned flight out of the country, never to be heard from again. These guys shoot presidents.
They think America has no higher calling than business, as if success as a human being is accorded only to the financially successful.And the literally billions of other lives led around the world, are of far lesser value - if they have any value at all. Hundreds of thousands die and are maimed, just Geo-Politics on a game board at a think tank.
Albert Schweitzer, Mother Teresa, the selfless soul down the street? All poor deluded fools, in their eyes.
"The Good Shepherd" is a nice start, and "Syriana" helps a bit, because this is the new world of all the old secrets being made public.
They will not go easily or quietly into any good night.
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Religio Absurdum
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Absolutely (pun intended) almost perfect.
I do wish the last ballon said, "Die Tuesdeist!"
That would be perfect!
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WTF?
[Read the article: My dad's doing too much creepy hugging]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not even going to read what else you've been sent, Carey. I'm going to tell you, as a father of a young man who's emotional patterns were formed by two people who argued in front of him, that you are way off, here. My own child is now exactly like that letter writer described himself: Cold, distant, angry, and untrusting of anyone who gets "too close", even me. CHILDREN WHO REGULARLY SEE ANGER BETWEEN THE PEOPLE WHO ARE THEIR SOURCE OF PROTECTION AND COMFORT, DEDUCE, AS CHILDREN DO, THAT INTIMACY CAUSES PAIN. Hence the incredible resonse to what is simply the father's attempt to demonstrate the love / compassion / sympathy / and probably regret, for what has already been done to his child.
I am a father who spent my child's whole life trying to get his mother and grandmother to let go of their arm-waving "anger is real - and must be expressed" old Italian bullshit so we could raise a sensitive, brilliant (gifted school) talented (Piano prodigy and 1st chair Percussionist on Timpani and Vibraphone, 2nd chair Snare and Kit) as a WHOLE human being.
To the writer: Son, you father is trying to save your life. He is demonstrating, the only way it can be demonstrated, that human touch - especially parent child - is not only normal, but essential to life. Hug him back. Let him feel you forgive him for what's been done to you. Let him know that you love him - and not with words. You both know only too well that words usually hide your actual feeling, not express it.
You've got a long way to go. Love is not "creepy", allow yourself to feel it. There are few things more beautiful and limitless than the love of a father for his son.
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Reason?
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Just little dancing cartoons heads attached to infantile speeches." That isn't meant to be satire. That's precisely what these little demagogues are! They are very much the people who inhabit the astral plane of bizarro, from whence cometh stoopid and childish (in direct opposition to 'childlike', itself a very high aspiration - see: Jesus) rationales for world-class destructive and sociopathic behavior.
"Writing on the level of 'Dick & Jane'"? Well, that's just where these idiot bastards live and commune. Just exactly what do you think you would hear if you could listen in on on Kristol, Cheney, Perle, Wolfy, et al, cementing their plans for turning the world into one large multi-national corporation of which they are the Board of Directors, while attempting to find words that "W" could speak "explaining" their actions to an incredulous and really pissed-off world?
Sound "reason"able to you?
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Once more with feeling!
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Stephen,
The only mistake made by Democrats, and a shit-load of Republicans, was to believe that lying little cretin when he PROMISED allof them, and us, to exhaust all other options. These clowns you insist on being loyal to do NOT have your best interests at heart. Really! That is finally dawning on even the Republican leadership. Neo-Cons (emphasis on Cons!) have had an agenda since the first PNAC proclamation, and it's only goal is a loooong as possible war BIG profits for a looong time!), ostensibly to bring "democracy" to a part of the world that either flatly refuses the concept, or democratically elects the last folks neo-cons want to negotiate with about anything. Pathetic. You, and they, are very very dangerous in your ignorance.
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homoerotic obsession with the author
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hmmmm, never thought of it that way. It's a fundamental law of psychology that great love is the necessary foundation for just such reactionary anger. Of course, such feelings may be rooted in a much simpler source, such as the simple lack of a sense of humor - especially about one's own beliefs, no matter how wrong they actually are.
It's all good. We get to laugh at a weekly send up of the wing-nuts - and then their diatribes!
God, I love freedom! I've fought and died for this country too many times to surrender now.