Letters to the Editor
The Professor
Published Letters: 420 Editor's Choice: 26
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@jim
[Read the article: Incorrigible]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The most horrific part is, it would be better if the $1,000,000,000,000 had been swept into a pile and burned. Instead, we have done immeasurable harm with it. Hell, buying a single $1,000,000,000,000 toilet would have left us all better off (especially those who got to use the toilet). But on the other hand, it only comes to about $3000 per person in the US. Doesn't that sound better?
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Something is deeply creepy...
[Read the article: A man's right to choose in Ohio]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]About all the estrogen-haters who lurk around Salon, particularly Broadsheet, waiting for some issue related to paternity to come up and then swarm to it like mosquitoes at a barbecue. And they ritually claim to be offended at the notion that they are misogynists (because they are just slaves to women!), and that they are the victims of man-hating gender nazis. Cry me a river.
On the other hand, when my sister was lying to her boyfriend that she was on the pill, and secretly wanted a child, and planned to eventually dump him but demand child-support from him, all the "man-hating feminists" in my family and circle of friends thought she was being an absolute bitch. That's not the topic here, exactly, but the estrogen-haters would like us to believe we would all heartily support such behavior.
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Positioning?
[Read the article: Newt goes off message]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Perhaps he senses not just a next Democratic presidency, but a long-term Democratic control of congress, and is folowing his yearning for power. Secretary of Education, perhaps?
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As a man...
[Read the article: Broadsheet is on hiatus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have the following requests:
1) more views of radical/fringe feminists. You are too tame.
2) continue to ignore anonymous (and otherwise) posts from guys with serious gender issues - let them push Joan Walsh to make a Mansheet, which I would never read. (have they ever noticed that between the sports and opinion pieces, the rest of Salon is largely a 'Mansheet' aready?).
3) Bash men more. We are an obnoxious, entitled lot enraged by the slow erosion of our traditional privileges. Men who find that 'unfair' make me giggle.
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The great irony for me...
[Read the article: The Islamists are coming]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is how Bushco is most tightly allied with the most fundamentalist of Islamic regimes - Saudi Arabia and the other oil states (UAE etc.), and has succeeded in creating a new one in Iraq. Bushco has been the avowed enemy of 'secular' Arab states like Syria and over-threw the strongest - Iraq. We've spent decades fighting secular Arab nationalism (Baathism, the PLO) and allied ourselves with and actively supported the most fundamentalist elements in the middle east (including the mujahedeen in Afganistan, which led directly to the Taliban and Al Qaeda). There has been such a thing as a liberal/progressive muslim community in the Middle East (I know many in it) - but the US right-wing has always shunned it in favor of amoral capitalists like Chalabi or oil-rich Kings.
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More ironies
[Read the article: The Islamists are coming]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]of the islamo-phobes:
1) the claim that 'muslims are gonna get you' echoes the most radical Islamic claims that 'Christians are gonna get you.' That is, they are essentially supporting the radical Islamic claim that 'the west is anti-Islamic.'
2) what they desire - some kind of broad-based, government sanctioned anti-muslim enterprise (what exactly?) - is the hallmark of those countries in the middle-east that they claim to so hate (i.e. those who think kicking out the Christians and Jews will solve their problems).
3) so generally, their stance embodies what they claim hate about their enemy, which is I think how such things tend to go. ("They are intolerant of us! I hate them because they hate us! They hate peace! Let's kill them!")
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Western liberalism?
[Read the article: The Islamists are coming]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How does intolerance for the ideas/beliefs of others that are different from ones own somehow fit in with a devotion to 'western liberalism'? Is it liberal to say, "people with beliefs different from my own will not be allowed into the country unless they renounce them"?
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Saudi Arabia is moderate?
[Read the article: Bush's tangled arms deal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They behead homosexuals. Women can't drive. Music is illegal. No elections. The only thing that makes them moderate is they sell us a lot of cheap oil. Iran, which is a relatively well-functioning democracy (with music and women-powered cars!) is 'extremist' because they aren't pro-American. Bush just wants the middle east, including Israel, on a permanent war-footing. Peace is bad for business.
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"This is why...
[Read the article: New NIE on Iraq: The prognosis is grim]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]we must keep the surge going! It's current failure is why we must re-double our efforts to make it work! Now, if it had done everything it was supposed to, then it could have been called off. But because it's not working, we must continue to do it until it does." GWB, October 2007
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Whose money?
[Read the article: How our seedy, corrupt Washington establishment operates]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"the most powerful GOP lobbying firm, run by former GOP Party Chair Haley Barbour and staffed by key former Bush national security officials, is being paid by Allawi to coordinate these anti-Maliki"
Allawi's money? Wouldn't that likely be money from the pallet-loads of US tax-payers' hundred-dollar bills we dropped on Iraq? What a surpise to see some of that money coming back to GOP.
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The 'surge'...
[Read the article: Revisionist history]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]was designed for a particular political purpose last winter - to be the 'shiney object' to distract washington from the Iraq study group recommendations. It did that. Now, they can make up whatever the hell they want, because it's job is long done.
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From CNN:
[Read the article: The U.S. senator and the bathroom stall]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"In recent years, Craig's voting record has earned him top ratings from social conservative groups such as the American Family Association, Concerned Women for America and the Family Research Council. He has supported a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, telling his colleagues that it was "important for us to stand up now and protect traditional marriage, which is under attack by a few unelected judges and litigious activists....Craig has also opposed expanding the federal hate crimes law to cover offenses motivated by anti-gay bias and, in 1996, voted against a bill that would have outlawed employment discrimination based on sexual orientation, which failed by a single vote in the Senate."
Screw this hypocrite and his 'pain.' He has done terrible things in the name of 'family values' and deserves all the pain he gets. Something about chickens and coming home to roost, I think.