Letters to the Editor
A Billion Angry Bees
Published Letters: 476 Editor's Choice: 13
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ironocrat
[Read the article: What the Poling autism case means]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well why not? All this gibbering about social good. No one's talking about social good, they're talking about whether they are or are not personally harmed vs compelled by it. I'm willing to let the folks who are afraid of vaccines go explore whatever witchcraft they like as the risk to me and mine is fairly low. If that makes them happy, fine. You and I both know that next year's panic will be something besides Autism. It will be something else. And we'll be treated to paranoid lectures on how adulterants are corrupting our precious bodily fluids and giving us (fill in your favorite obscure malady here).
It's like the moms who've suddenly discovered that their kids, after being alive for 10 years are deathly allegic to nuts. And then they proceed to waterboard everyone else to ensure there are no nuts anywhere near their kids. Tell you what, keep your kids at home. Your home. I'm not prepared to sterilize my home to your satisfaction. I'm happy to let you do whatever it is you have to do to appease your OCD and that's a wonderful thing.
Maybe there's a connection. I don't know. I don't really care that much either. My kids got all their shots except chickenpox and they're not obviously defective. If someone else has or thinks they have or thinks they will have some other experience then that is their problem to manage.
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Mochabean
[Read the article: What the Poling autism case means]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's fine, stay home. With all the ex smokers who suddenly can't tolerate anyone else's smoke. I am a live and let live (no matter how miserably) kind of person.
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I'm sure I need the nanny state micromanaging every aspect of my life
[Read the article: Have you ever left your toddler in a car?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's such a relief to have that burden taken from me. I don't have to think or feel or know anything. All I have to do is obey. The only thing better would be to have that state take the kids from me to do with as they wish. Certainly some bureacracy is better than anyone at that job.
But to be fair, in America you're more likely to go to jail for messing with a dog than you are for burning your own kid with a curling iron. Pets are people too!
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Clearly the press is cowed by the fear of being labeled racist
[Read the article: Reexamining the Ferraro fracas]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So it's a kid glove treatment for Obama. If that has any bearing. Maybe it doesn't. Maybe when you paint one candidate as a shrill WOMAN and the other as the Messiah it makes no difference. Yes I'm sure of it now.
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A million American soldiers hanged would be fine
[Read the article: Will American war crimes be revealed?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I mean that's typically the punishment for war crimes.
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Those are just tools, mechanics
[Read the article: What's the matter with kids today?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anyone can learn to blog if they're so motivated. That's not the same thing as knowledge or insight or even literacy. Would you say the same thing if the assertion was that IM'ing or texting replaced the telephone? Are people smarter because they type out 160 character SMS messages instead of talking?
The problem with 'the internet' is that when young people need to 'get' something, e.g. research or information on something, they go to a tiny set of the same sources over and over like Wiki and simply cut/paste what they find there w/o having to read, digest, understand and absorb it. It might not even be accurate. But since "It's on the web, it must be true".
And what about all the materials that aren't on the web such as the collected works of Jacques Barzun or a real life Caravaggio hanging on the wall?
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This really has more to do with the incompetence of states
[Read the article: The rise of the superclass]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It used be, in the bad old 20th C. heads of state and their coterie were the elites? But the 20th C. has taught us that most heads of states are butchers, cheats, megalomaniacs, thieves or just plain stupid and dull. Does anyone really care about the President of Argentina except that she's a woman? Is there anything of note that Korea or Taiwan has accomplished or is noteworthy apart from the dull drudgery of commerce? Isn't the EU just a blackslapping society at this point?
So as the relevance of the power of states wanes, something else has to catch our attention. It's Bono, it's Blair, it's the people who look powerful and entertaining.
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Screw other people
[Read the article: Nothing makes any sense anymore. I'm at the end of my rope]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Embrace your paranoia.
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He benefits from our fear of putting harsh questions to him lest we be accused of racism.
[Read the article: Geraldine Ferraro still needs to apologize]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama doesn't benefit from being black he benefits from our liberal guilt and shame.
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Well at least they're not performing gruesome medical experiments on them
[Read the article: A sickening truth at Guantánamo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cuz I've seen that movie with Lawrence Olivier and Brazil.
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Eventually the internet is used to reinforce the bigotries you already hold
[Read the article: What's the matter with kids today?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You will pull up the sources you like and ignore the ones you don't. I can't imagine a generation raised on Howard Zinn having a wide enough perspective to investigate sources that aren't just like Howard Zinn for instance.
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We don't need elections we need apology-offs
[Read the article: Geraldine Ferraro still needs to apologize]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]who ever weeps the loudest wins.
I'd like to kick things off by apologizing for controlling the world's banks and media, and for killing Jesus. thank you.
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Why is Bronze-Age-istan Broadstreet's pet project?
[Read the article: Can a pop singer change gender history?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Surely they could find any number of more meaningful projects in the world that correlate with real successes, can't they? I mean does BS expect us all to sit up on our hind flippers and clap like seals every time some bunch of camel banging savages doesn't chop random women's head off? Hint: we'll be operating hotdog stands on the moon before the Afghanis discover the Middle Ages. The best thing BS could do for the women there is to either expatriate all of them, or give them 5 million M-16's to slaughter all the camel bangers.
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This election is 4th Grade
[Read the article: Carville wants resignation cease-fire]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So we need to find a 4th grader to elect.
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Well it fits in nicely
[Read the article: The rise of the superclass]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]With the general Salon tenor of disgruntled upper middle class faux Marxist paranoid conspiracy minded Jew hating ignorance. I'd like to continue but I have a coup in Africa I have to start.
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Tear up all stats from the pre integration era
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And erase all records of all those players. I'm sure that will fix everything.
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So much for the writer's strike
[Read the article: "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's make movies of children's books, video games, toys and cartoons. The really pathetic thing is you probably couldn't get a single page of Dahl, Suess, Sendak or Silverstein published today. "Too scary. Not enough ethnic diversity."