Letters to the Editor
Neimon
Published Letters: 76 Editor's Choice: 8
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One more thing...
[Read the article: "The Trap"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...spending a few years as an activist gets you a nice FBI file, which denies you entry into some of those very "sellout" jobs we're talking about. This is new. Your past follows you and destroys you from behind, and we're all under more dire peril every year as each innocent activity, one by one, is placed under suspicion.
I'm a Quaker. I'm for peace. Therefore I'm a suspected terrorist sympathizer. Imagine what happens to people who work a few months stuffing envelopes? No job for you, terrorist scum.
Threat of economic disaster is an invisible, unspoken form of coercion. It is a thing we've perfected, where secret people can judge us lacking without our even knowing it.
Paranoid? Yes. But this is a symptom, isn't it, of an elite class that doesn't trust the under class, and wants to weed.
Honestly? We've made this too damned hard for young people. We should maybe tend to our own gardens and get off their backs.
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Oh no.
[Read the article: If we leave Iraq, do we lose for good?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I do not underestimate "the enemy." Indeed, I want us to bring to bear all of our weapons.
Diplomacy. Tact. Grace. Leadership. Freedom. Fairness. Mercy. Justice. Compassion. And, yes, we've proven we have Strength.
We've barely scratched the surface of the possibilities. All we care is that certain holding companies get their share of loot.
Think of what could have happened if we spent $500,000,000 on putting our money where our mouth is and living the promise that is America. Instead we feed hogs. That's the reality, not the promise.
And Ms Paglia is only a symptom. A bug. A parasite.
Salon. Stop this.
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I see
[Read the article: Hillary is from Mars, Obama is from Venus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Haliburton become your white knight in the money department? Because this is exactly the kind of slash fiction that will lead to another 8 years of war, greed, corruption and pestulance at the hands of our "conservative" corporate overlords.
My GOD how tasteless and pointless is this? And how CLEVER to hand to our worthy opponents - who have shown an unyielding desire to take every tiny perceived "weakness" (witness "Haircutgate") and stab us all, every one of us, every American, in the heart - another freakin' sound-bite sexual innuendo to trade on.
Yes. Obama is a kind, generous and merciful man who believes that these aren't weaknesses. Yes, Hillary is potent and savvy. Jesus, when ARE these things weaknesses? When the Republican noise machine echoes these ideals and ridicules them JUST FOR THEIR OWN POWER.
Good. God. Is there anything you IDIOTS won't stumble over? Between this and Paglia, this is one of your worst. Weeks. Ever.
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It's 2007
[Read the article: The secret life of sperm]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We can stop making hay with the idea that men hate women and only love their cocks. It's insulting to everyone involved and just a laughable an attempt at divisiveness as being "with the terrists" or "agin'em."
I wish I could father a child. It is, for the foreseeable future, impossible for me because of my marriage. Ironically, I want a daughter whom I could raise to see that gentle people are gentle people, period, even if one or two of them are penis-equipped.
I don't feel threatened by alternative ways of fertilization. It is, instead, exhilarating to think that people who really, really want children can find a way.
But I wouldn't donate sperm in this current culture where men are both sperm and cash machines - where the chance exists (however unlikely) that someone could sue me for support of a child I don't even know I have. That's nuts. I think we still have some growing up to do.
It's not really sperm we're talking about, but the state of children in non-standard relationships, and the financial and social responsibilities that need divining.
Meanwhile, Salon? Dial back the "bravely publishing controversial feminist authors" meme about three notches. It's a rubber bone of contention, and we all have so much more important things to do. I certainly don't need to be hated while I'm trying to figure out how we save the planet from the current greed and hatefest that is American Bush.
Peace.
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Oh for GOD's sake
[Read the article: U.S. to merge with Mexico and Canada?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Intellectual elites?" Has he LOOKED at the Bush administration?
If there's one place where "Intellectual Elites" aren't allowed, it's there. In fact, I'd say that in the last 30 years, there has been a decline in "intellectual elitism" to the extent that there is an "intellectual elite gap" with other nations. We risk falling off the Mutally Assured Intellectual Elite Non-screwing-up-everything curve.
This book is proof. What a lying sack of moronic poo.
Now we allow THIS wedge to drive us. For the love of all that is holy, can we STOP falling for the obvious con that everything would be perfect but for "thuh Jews" or "thuh Mexicans" or "thuh Canadians" or "thuh homosexuals" or "thuh egg-head smart people who think they're so big?" (Has anyone else noticed that bigotry always starts with "the?")
We have become a nation of button-pushing rubes, childishly assuming we are entitled to Daddy Warbuck's largess. That lie is what keeps us all down, enslaved, hoping. Dumb.
Salon: Stop. Re. Printing. It.
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HomeBrand
[Read the article: "A persistent and evolving terrorist threat"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I, too, am disturbed by the constant reference to "The Homeland" instead of "The United States." This seems like an intentional rebranding into something that's not quite The United States, or perhaps United States Plus.
What's the purpose of that? Is it so we forget that there's no "Constitution of The Homeland?" Sure sounds like a plausible explanation.
Scarier and scarier ever day.