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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Shamrockr
Published Letters: 7
Wow..what a perfect poem (Yeat's The Second Coming) to sum up the inevitable end to the Sopranos themselves and to the series itself. At least this week saw a temporary reprieve from death, though the unintentional dental work done to the fella who insulted Meadow was pretty brutal. True dat, Heather, Tony et all have gotten off easy from the viewer's judgment...but it is now time to face the music. The fat lady is a'singing!
Wow... the mother of this boy really paints a vivid portrait of mental illness from a viewpoint which truly breaks ones heart. I loved the metaphor of Geodon as Abilify's masonic, hulking chemical cousin... pretty much what I always pictured when I heard its name. I, too, was once prescribed many of the "atypics"... Zyprexa made me feel as if I were tripping on acid. Luckily, I decided quickly I didn't want to go through life as the missing member of Pink Floyd...I discontinued it after a week. It breaks my heart that adolescents are prescribed these drugs so casually... it's criminal, really.
Did anyone else get the feeling that you were just watching events unfold, and not really watching a show? Does that even make sense? I just felt so curiously disengaged...
And what of the other song choices that Tony passed up unitl deciding on Journey? Guess he really was in charge of his destiny, deciding to forego Tony Bennett's "lonely guy" for Journey's halcion lyrics. Bravo, Brilliant, pass the xanax now.
I wish these same people taking up for this idiotic M.I.T. student with extremely poor taste would have reacted accordingly in the defense of the bipolar young man who was shot dead in Miami two years or so ago...not for having a bomb, not for saying he had a bomb (though the cops, security, etc...said so, but every single passenger around him denied him making ANY such remark)...but he did have a manic episode. This was while the plane was boarding...an easily handled situation. I'm a science teacher with a Master's degree...that doesn't qualify me as a circuit board expert, but my memory isn't so short that I don't remember Richard Wright, the "shoe bomber" arrested en route, in the air, with no indication of "putty"...often a component in explosives, or an exposed battery (yes, that size battery COULD cause an explosion...believe me). All you libertarians out there...do you not remember that most of the 911 planes took off from Logan? All of you who protest racial profiling, well, what the xxxx do you want the security guards to look for? If she wasn't suspicious, than who is? If she had been of Arab descent, these comments would be totally different, because that young person would be dead. Period. She is lucky to be alive. Yes, I think that some precautions are downright silly, and,yes,they are somethimes inconvenient. But erring on the side of caution is more important than this child's civil rights. I can't believe M.I.T.'s standards have been lowered to the point of allowing a creative "art" student into its prestigious technology program. The simple fact is, she is an idiot, period. Not just "tired", and not just not thinking...an IDIOT.
He/she...sorry, didn't catch the gender... is right on the money, in my opinion. I'm sure this will be a brilliant series, certainly a jewel in the crown of Ken Burns' other works. But to call it "The War", when such key elements as the French resistance, the battle of Stalingrad, etc, were much more important than a lot of aspects of the American involvement. I say this not downplaying our contribution, but simply to "play up" what other countries did in this WORLD WAR, simply put. Quite honestly, I can't think of a catchy title...maybe that's the tragedy of it....that we have to think about ratings and such in naming this work of art... "World War II, American Style" doesn't cut it, and certainly is ridiculously irreverent. I don't have a solution....but I know wrong when I see it.
Let's see... Gay was fine, was it not? Language and the meanings dufferent words take on, especially over a ten or thirty year period of time, change like the tides. Lesbians wanted 'more'. It wasn't enough to be gay. Bi? Why are we even talking about them in any talk of legislation at all? A large percentage are prostitutes, players, or just confused...the rest will make a decision one way or the other, and then hope that they fall on the right side of the applicable legislation. Too many have worked too hard, for too long, to have fringe groups, with little in common, jumping on a bill, like jumping on a sinking boat. Because that is what will happen. The "T"'s will get theirs..in "tttime." Maybe they can jump on board with others who have bad fashion taste like M.C. Hammer or P. Diddy. A bill to help those discriminated against wearing too much gold, too much fabric in their pants, and the wrong sex clothing. Other than that, how much do they have in common with mem who have sex with men, or women who have sex with women? Nada. You'll get yours...but wait out your own d*mned ten years.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Salon headlines in your mailbox
