Letters to the Editor
pacificwhim
Published Letters: 201 Editor's Choice: 37
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The media bear a lot of blame for our stupidity
[Read the article: Panic on Wall Street]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's see, do I recall a series of articles in 2004 and 2005 about how foolish it was to be sitting on your home equity when you could be cashing it out and investing it in, well, MORE real estate! Yes, I believe I do. I remember gagging at the audacity of the financial retards in the pieces I read in newspapers and online who clucked over the ignorance of the boobs (like me) who let their home equity lie un-leveraged. Fortunately, my wife and I knew this was a pile of horse dung and burned the newspaper.
Unfortunately, millions of homeowners once again proved a fundamental tenet of human behavior: people will always believe that the way things are today is the way they will always be. Booms go bust; that's why they're booms. Yet Joe Homeowner turned his Beige Castle in the burbs into a wallet again and again, cashing out for the 64" plasma, the new boobs for wifey, and that new deck with the turbo-charged gas grill.
Oh, but then the ARM loan came due...and home values quit elevating like LeBron James...and we owe WHAT? And our house is worth WHAT? Oh dear. Oh my dear me.
The media bought and sold the real estate/Wall Street love affair just as it bought and sold the "new economic rules" of the dotcom boom, when whoring publications like Wired talked about the "Long Boom" to come. Pigeon-brains, the only long boom is the inevitable crash of housing prices. The media sold, we suckers bought, and what's always true will again be true. The folks who don't panic and do something stupid now will come out fine. The stock market will right itself. Home values will stabilize. Not tomorrow, but next year, probably. Some folks who got burned will learn and make wiser decisions next time around. But the people who freak out will take a bath. And the world will keep turnin'. Amen.
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Only a matter of time
[Read the article: P.S., Mr. President: "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The only reason no one's seen a Republican member of Congress in drag (and probably wearing a ball gag and leather bustier with nipple clips underneath the frock) is because nobody's looked in the right place at the right time.
Yet.
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Classic
[Read the article: Cookies and hankies for our "wounded warriors"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nice to know the pro-war types' "support" goes deeper than spanking a yellow ribbon magnet on the back of the family SUV. It must make the soldiers spinning their wheels and risking their lives in Iraq feel so much better to know that if they get their legs blown off by an IED, at least they'll be able to chew on some shortbread between tortuous bouts of lifelong physical and psychological therapy.
Silly rest of us, trying to support the troops by trying to bring them home and end this misbegotten self-written man-adventure by father-avenging simpleton George "I was in the military for about five minutes" Bush.
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Buddy and others
[Read the article: "I heard a man open his heart up"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is the news, ladies and gents. This is yet another example of the party in control of the White House--which leaped to power and dragged the nation into a spiraling military, healthcare, environmental, diplomatic, security and economic disaster of biblical proportions on a platform of "we have family values, they want gay men fucking chickens while your children are forced to watch"--revealing themselves to be empty, vile hypocrites...yet again.
This is a sordid story that is nonetheless about the fitness of the GOP and the Neocons to govern, since I presume we can all agree we sorta want our leaders to hold themselves to the same high standards to which they hold everyone else. Everyone else who isn't in their party, that is. Or is in their party but accused of bathroom buggering.
Character counts, and all the Republicrap apologists are showing theirs. This is newsworthy.
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The blowjob pool
[Read the article: The Craig watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]OK, I'm going to launch an online pool system where we can place bets on which venomously homophobic GOP member of Congress will be next to be involuntarily outed. In fact, I think it would be loads o' fun to also take wagers on the method. Will it be:
a) Caught on amateur video giving it to a trannie in a public park restroom?
b) Trash divers finding credit card statements with $1000s in charges to www.leathercowboysluts.com?
c) Altar boys coming forward to claim they were molested? Oh, silly rabbit, that's the Catholic Church!
d) A spurned, hairy lover coming forward and at the press conference, presenting the Senator's favorite ball gag as exhibit A?
Oh, there is so much fun to be had. Who's with me?
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Thanks for making me not need to drop acid today
[Read the article: Forcing Larry Craig's resignation while embracing David Vitter]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]GoodCelery!, that was mind-bending found poetry, seriously. I have no idea what you were trying to say, but it's got me feeling quite psychedelic.
For all you folks who keep protesting that Craig broke no laws, of course he did. Otherwise there would have been no need for a guilty plea. And in any case, the issue here is not legal. It is the Repugnant Party's boundless, bottomless hypocrisy.
If you are a public figure and build your career on relentlessly savaging the lifestyles and rights of a certain segment of the population, and then are found to be engaging in exactly the lifestyle which you have so viciously condemned, then you deserve to be hounded from our midst. PERIOD. NO EXCEPTIONS.