Letters to the Editor
malcalypse
Published Letters: 96 Editor's Choice: 3
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Wrong before, but unenforced is still wrong
[Read the article: Hijab banned from girls' sports event]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you get pulled over for speeding, I think you should explain to the cop that you have driven by a number of cops at that same speed before and they didn't issue you a citation. Therefore, you shouldn't get one this time.
When that happens, tell us how far that excuse got you.
Next time you call Microsoft Windows tech support because a third party application you purchased isn't working, and they tell you it's outside of their area of support, try explaining to them that the last guy helped you and see how far that gets you.
Just because you got away with breaking the rules N times, does not mean you have the right to get away with breaking the rules.
Tae Kwon Do has an international governing body that sets the rules of the competition. The rules are enforced by human beings, some of whom may have shown inappropriate lenience.
However, I don't think it is a young Canadien woman's right to participate in Tae Kwon Do, just as I don't think such participation is compulsory.
Stupid rules should be changed, sure. However, the reason for change has never been "because I broke this rule before without incident."
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What's common among all these shooters?
[Read the article: "I think he was just a confused kid"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They all had access to guns.
They were also all humans.
They were also all males.
What else do you want to make illegal? Who gets to decide whether it's the guns or the Y chromosome or the humanity that needs to be controlled and eliminated for us to be safe?
Look up North. Canada has more guns than we do, and yet their rate of gun violence is very minimal, especially in comparison to us.
Besides, it's very easy to make bombs and the like from commonly available materials.
What else do you want to make illegal?
Sure, it's awful hard to shoot someone if nobody has any guns. It's hard to argue with that.
However, maybe it has a tiny bit more to do with the fact that at the very highest levels of our society, we demonstrate that violence, often preemptive, is an effective and accepted way to conduct your affairs.
I don't see why all the soccer moms have to come out of the woodwork every time someone gets shot and try to abridge our rights for the sake of their own piece of mind.
Outlaw cars if you want to make the country safer - they're not a constitutional right. My gun is.
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At least he's not gay...
[Read the article: Storm over "penis" in Va. Tech shooting photo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A gay man's penis is 10 times as powerful as a straight man's penis.
Simply by being inserting into another man, the gay penis can weaken the very fabric of society!
Seriously.
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Common?
[Read the article: God save the queen!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your salary is public information, Ms. Walsh.
I don't think commoners make 3x the median income for a family of 4 all by themselves, do they?
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Catholicism is supposed to be ominous?
[Read the article: Tony Blair becomes Margaret Thatcher]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hey bro, the war of the roses ended a long time ago.
It's time to get over it.
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Hey Hoodwinked
[Read the article: Edwards' insensitive move]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I would say you can't enjoy your American privilidges (with all that entails) without, if not gratitude, at least tacit acknowledgement that our troops provide some measure of insurance for the lifestyle you surely enjoy.
Well, maybe you can, but it makes you a hypocrit.
To the extent that you condemn them, you condemn yourself for enjoying the fruits of their labor, all while wagging your finger in disdain.
You should think a little more deeply about who we've made enemies of recently and what our army means in that respect.
I'm not saying we undertook our current Levantine adventure because we're in danger. I'm saying to the extent we're not in danger, given our behavior as a nation, the fact that we have our army we do has a lot to do with it.
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it's not that shocking
[Read the article: The American Life League finally tells the truth]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You see, poor people had a chance to be godly, aka rich and conservative, and they blew it. Therefore, they are not deserving of God's love or the compassion of humanity. Unborn babies, on the other hand, only become moral (ie economic and political) failures *after* emergence from the womb. While they're in there, they get the benefit of the doubt.
It's not like Jesus went around hobnobbing with poor people or anything...
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Hockey is a niche sport
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I never read you anymore because of your unapologetically poor coverage of hockey.
You claim you're not biased, and your poor coverage stems from hockey's status as a niche sport, akin to curling or somesuch.
Now you're arguing in favor of more coverage of a minor league sport?
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It's all about the bikini
[Read the article: What else we're reading]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So when Gwen Ifill has Condi Rice over to her house for dinner (which she does), and then lobs her some softballs when interviewing her (which she also does), how come Gwen gets to keep her job?
Probably because she wasn't in a bikini, I'd guess. Nobody cares about corruption and integrity unless there's sex involved.
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Flying is an unsustainable practice
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As the pilot said, the amount of people flying has doubled.
How could this be possible without enormous subsidies, both in the form of direct bailouts to the airline industry as well as our government shielding us all from the true cost of burning fuel in such quantities?
Add to that delayed flights, grumpy airport workers, and security procedures that are so stupid an missing the point as to be insulting to one's intelligence and it's a wonder why anyone flies.
If the airlines were forced to build in the true cost of actual flight, including the environmental costs, the prices would be so high that flying wouldn't even exist.
Maybe it shouldn't.
I know personally I am sick of my government bailing out these shitty businesses that have poor customer service and whose product has only deteriorated in every sense of the word in the last couple of decades.
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It cuts both ways....
[Read the article: The Islamists are coming]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It cuts both ways. I personally find the degree of concordance between the values of our own dear right wing and the so-called islamofascists odd and disturbing.
I think it's more than a little disingenuous when those who stand in the way of these enlightenment values at home are so frothy about defending them abroad.
For me, the author makes the wrong point.