Letters to the Editor
Susan Wood
Published Letters: 379 Editor's Choice: 27
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Chad Bagley,
[Read the article: What Bush is hiding]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]what the slave who rode in the Roman triumphator's chariot actually said was "Memento mori," "remember that you must die." Your translation, "remember you are just a man" got the sense of the phrase, but not the impact. Hubris is a powerful emotion that leads to great danger, and needs a powerful take-down. Unfortunately, the presence of the slave and his timely reminder didn't save Caligula, Nero, Domitian, Commodus and Caracalla from hubris, and Bush's Christian faith, which seems to have left out the part about humility as a virtue, won't save him either.
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A pity Stephen Colbert will never be invited to the WH Correspondents' dinner again.
[Read the article: The most revealing three-minute YouTube clip ever]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He gave these empty-headed narcissists the arse-kicking they deserved, but it did no good -- at least not to them! It certainly was balm to the souls of the rest of us, however.
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MAV
[Read the article: Regional stability, the Bush administration way]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, technically, it WASN'T a lie to say we had no plans to invade Iraq. We didn't have plans, and still don't. We just went in and did it without thinking anything through. That was supposed to demonstrate moral clarity and resolve, because understanding the enemy or the nature of the fight was for sissies, remember?
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As we said in 1973,
[Read the article: Sampson: I suggested firing Patrick Fitzgerald]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]IMPEACH THE COX-SACKER!
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The next logical step
[Read the article: Your modern-day Republican Party]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]of course will be a special court (let's call it the People's Court) that can try pesky subversives and condemn them to the guillotine, the sentence to be carried out the same day. Hey, it worked on uppity student protesters like Sophie Scholl and her hippie-commie buddies in The White Rose organization. When they said that Germany couldn't win World War II after the defeat at Stalingrad, and could only prolong the bloodshed, they were clearly undermining the morale of the troops. National security demanded that they be eliminated right away. What loyal American could argue with that kind of logic if he is truly loyal to George Bush?
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Priceless
[Read the article: Quaint]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'd just love to see her sit down with James Yee, the Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo who was arrested and thrown into solitary confinement for the crime of being a whistle-blower about abuses, and later released without a single charge brought against him. He and she could have a nice chat about civil liberties.
I heard Yee give a lecture yesterday, and it's a story every American should hear.
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I wish Matthew Dowd's son well
[Read the article: Matthew Dowd's not-so-miraculous conversion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but if, God forbid, he should die or be maimed in Iraq it will be a grim reminder of the Biblical truth that often the sins of the fathers are visited on the children. Dowd's "conversion" may or may not be heartfelt, but if he's a good Southern Baptist, he knows how to quote his Bible, and I'll bet that verse has been keeping him awake at night.
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I think that by "civilized looking"
[Read the article: How Iran played the hostage "crisis"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]he meant civilian suits as opposed to orange jump suits, or possibly Gitmo-style birthday suits with sandbag on head.
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Pundits are constantly calling on Muslim imams to disavow terror and extremism.
[Read the article: Coulter: "Who's running this holocaust in Darfur, FEMA?"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why haven't any prominent Christians spoken up about the grotesque way that this woman invokes her "Christian" faith whenever she justifies her bigotry, death-threats and calls for genoicide?
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Cut the man some slack.
[Read the article: McCain: It's fun to be wrong]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He had the balls to admit he was wrong, which is more than the Current Resident or Vice Ventriloquist will ever, ever do.
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So now you're an expert on climatology
[Read the article: Real inconvenient truths]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]because your college professor once asked you to consider majoring in geology? God help us, woman, the main source of hot air these days is you and your blowhard ego.
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Three months ago,
[Read the article: White House and guns: Stay the course]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I would have been rolling my eyes at the NRA party line that people need to keep their guns. Now, however, I know that their argument -- that a law abiding citizen with a gun can deter or prevent crime -- is absolutely true. Last January, three armed thugs kicked in the door of my stepson's house at about 4:00 a.m. He had time to run to the kitchen and grab his gun as they forced their way in, and to order them out (or, to be more specific, tell them to "get the f--- out of here." When they responded along the lines of "F--- you, m-----f-----, he fired twice, and hit one of the intruders. They immediately fled, were apprehended soon afterward when they took their wounded member to an emergency room, and are looking at serious prison time, because this was at least their 10th such offense, and they'd attacked several homeowners in the past. Because the guy's blood was on the premises, the DNA evidence along with the ballistic evidence is pretty conclusive.
So, now I agree that IF you are very well trained in gun handling and safety, as my stepson is, then yes, a gun can be an important protection and crime deterrent. But I still think that licensing and mandatory training for legal gun owners is a good idea.
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CHUMP CHANGE????? WHAT IF ONE OF THOSE SMALL COINS WAS YOUR SON OR DAUGHTER????
[Read the article: White House and guns: Stay the course]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bignose, I can't let that "chump change" remark go unanswered. I am absolutely appalled by the heartlessness of your choice of words. Yes, more people have died in Iraq. Yes, more people die in car accidents. But no death of any human beings, especially young people with their lives ahead of them, is trivial, and people have every right to ask in a situation like this what can be done to prevent future such events. Personally, as I indicated in an earlier letter, I don't for one minute think that "gun control" is the answer. On that subject, I'm a "liberal who has been mugged," a former proponent of gun control until a member of my family used a gun in self defense against burglars and is probably alive today because he did. But let's not try to argue the case by dismissing the significance of these brutal murders.
It's nice at least to see that President Bush intends to attend the memorial service. Someone finally got the guy's attention quickly this time; good thing he wasn't on vacation, or he'd undoubtedly still be clearing brush and joking with the media about his dogs. You don't suppose he might actually show up now at a funeral or two of the men he's sent to their deaths in Iraq, do you? Nah -- among the true believers, the party line is still that the casualty rates there are "incredibly low," and that those deaths also are "chump change."