Letters to the Editor
pacificwhim
Published Letters: 201 Editor's Choice: 37
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Whores
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Amen to the LW who called out Fox for the shameless whoring for Taco Bell during Game 2. I mean, I thought Curt was the only "shilling" who going on at Fenway, but no. Bad enough to prompt the "Hey, did you know everybody in America's going to get a disgusting free taco if you steal a base" conversation. Gee, how spontaneous must that have been? But then Matthews gets in the grill of the freakin' COO of Taco Hell? Give me a break! Vin Scully's not dead and in the future he's spinning in his casket. That was vile, and completely to be expected of the classless Murdoch crowd.
Fox is bad for baseball. You heard it here first. They're a freaking joke. Give the coverage back to TBS, which actually gave the LCS some dignity. Better yet, go back to NBC and Bob Costas. Costas may only be 3'6", but he'd punch the Taco Bell COO's lights out rather than shill for his lame promotion.
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Sad
[Read the article: Making a mockery of impeachment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What's tragic and ironic about this story is that the conviction that compels Kucinich to pursue a path that is absolutely the right thing to do for the nation also makes him the most worthy candidate to be president. But because his actions are so "marginal," and because he's a funny-looking, quirky, guy, he doesn't have a prayer.
How far America has fallen when our decisions about our leaders are based on who "seems presidential" rather than who takes courageous, principled action to uphold the Constitution against fierce opposition and cowardice in his own party.
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The Democrat disease
[Read the article: Why voters don't like Congress]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sadly, I agree with Karl Rove, who said that the Democrats had their window to change everything, and they blew it in an epic way. The disease of Democratic presidential candidates again and again is that they equivocate, that they can't take a strong stand and go to war. Now that appears to be a disease of the entire Democratic Party.
These pathetic congressional reps have no courage and no fight in them. If they did--if they were more concerned with selflessly representing the interests of their constituents instead of worrying about how doing what's right might affect their election prospects--they would pull out all the stops to end the war, pass universal healthcare, and impeach Bush and Cheney, all actions that the majority of the people they serve have been demanding.
The feeling I have now is one I have felt one other time recently: the days after 9/11. Then I thought the U.S. had a real shot at rallying the world around us and changing it for the better. We dropped that ball with spectacular stupidity and incompetence. We had a chance to remake our government and repudiate the damage done by the Bush administration and the right wing since 2001, but the Democrats dropped that ball as well. It makes we want to weep.
Forget Gen. Petraeus, Democrats. You're the ones who have betrayed us. Please change your symbol from a donkey to a jellyfish. Then again, an ass is completely appropriate.
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Leadership drought
[Read the article: America's water war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What's truly terrifying about all this is that unlike energy, water is beyond our control. We can create alternative fuel sources, bike to work and turn fry oil into biodiesel, but we can't make water. I suppose in coastal areas we can with expensive desalination plants, but what about everywhere else? We are dependent on the vagaries of rainfall and climatic patterns, and if those shift for the foreseeable future, there's not a lot we can do about it.
We need leadership that's willing to declare a jihad on climate change, for the planet's sake. It's not just a vacuum of responsible decision making in the U.S., though we're deservedly the whipping boy because our government has become so comically incompetent that we're now compared to Rome in its last days. But there's also a refusal to deal in places like India and China, not to mention the Middle East. If we don't pool our global resources to launch a three-pronged attack on climate change--emissions reduction, adaptation and increased carbon absorption--we could be facing a collapse of the global food supply. And that would be a true catastrophe.
By the way, has anyone noticed that it's largely the Mediterranean-like climate zones (California, South Africa, etc.) that are in drought? Seems like a permanent climate shift to me. I live in Southern California, and my wife and I are already planning our move out.
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Anything else?
[Read the article: Pickens weasels out on Swift Boat challenge]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How about the rotted corpse of one of the Viet Cong Kerry killed, T. Boone? You want that, too? How about a cup of hot fat and the head of Alfredo Garcia? Will that be enough?
What an egotistical blowhard. But while I'm glad to see Kerry taking this on and I hope he shoves his military record right up Pickens' purulent oilman ass, I have one question:
Senator, where were your balls on this issue in 2004? And why did it take you three years to find them? Were they in storage? I respect Kerry as a man, but as campaigner and presidential candidate, he's a punchline.
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Aroo?
[Read the article: News flash: Giuliani running on 9/11]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wait, Rudy Giuliani has a connection to 9/11? I thought he was just some wife-swapping, crony-coddling neo-totalitarian wannabe thug.
Next you'll tell me he wants to be president.
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Makeover?
[Read the article: The Snowman is the least of their worries]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'd love to think that even the GOP machine can't make one of these witless, Bible-thumping cadavers electable, that we've become smarter as a people since we elected George W. Bush in 2000 based on the all-important I'd Like to Have a Beer With Him Index, but I don't know.
After all, the RNC and Karl Rove managed to get us to vote for a stunningly incompetent and intellectually bereft ne'er do well, didn't they? But we couldn't be that stupid again.
Right? Right?