Letters to the Editor
gen. apathy
Published Letters: 55 Editor's Choice: 12
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Being wrong
[Read the article: Is there traction control on the Straight Talk Express?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]George Bush would rather kill thousands of American soldiers than be wrong. John McCain would rather get himself killed than be wrong.
I'm not sure which is worse, but I'm sick of both. Are there any Republicans out there mature enough to admit that sometime, in some way, they were incorrect about something?
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Hapless
[Read the article: Cheney in charge]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It really says something if the President can't reign in the power of someone sitting in a Constitutionally powerless office. If he wants insight on how to marginalize a VP, he need look no further than his namesake. Daddy was completely out of the loop during the Reagan administration, and Bush would be wise to follow that example with Cheney.
Cheney has done so much damage to this country. The problem here doesn't appear to be the inability to hire a "War Czar". The problem is the inability to marginalize or fire Dick Cheney. So, the White House knows that he's screwing everything up and they still can't seem to do anything about it. How can that be? Vice presidents have no authority to do anything but break a Senate tie. Why is the White House so afraid of Dick Cheney? And why are we stuck living with it?
Get rid of Cheney, and suddenly a "War Czar" isn't necessary.
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How quickly we forget
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How can we forget memorable scenes like Sammy Sosa's superball bat. Or Jason Grimsley breaking into the umps locker room to steal back Albert Belle's confiscated bat.
Part of what made Gaylord Perry great was that everyone knew he was cheating, but no one could ever figure out how.
I think the reason why these types of cheating are fun in baseball is that baseball still has some of the beer league left in it.
The NFL is just completely corporate. The teams make their players virtually inaccessible, NFL coaches are as vanilla bland as you can get. Baseball still feels closer to us. Take an example in my city...Donovan McNabb feels like a corporate spokesperson. Ryan Howard feels like a ballplayer (who hopefully isn't using superballs). Andy Reid seems like an NFL trademark. Charlie Manual seems....well...like Charlie Manual.
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He's in a better place now
[Read the article: Playing chess with Kurt Vonnegut]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]KV would've loved that one; goodbye Blue Monday.
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I get it!
[Read the article: Couldn't call it unexpected]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ok, so what we're supposed to do is just completely ignore anything that happens in Iraq. The sole aim of the "enemy" is to do stuff that makes us average folk question this war. But if I just ignore it, and watch some TV, and purchase some fuel and perhaps have a lovely dinner at Friday's, my will will remain intact. Hear no evil, see no evil! Now I get it, Sen. McCain.
It's like that Simpson's episode. "Just don't look. Just don't look".
Well, you can count on me, Sen. McCain! I trust you to do the right thing without me paying any attention! Did you guys see American Idol the other night?
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Guns have nothing to do with murderous rampages
[Read the article: White House and guns: Stay the course]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They are just innocent tools manufactured for the express purpose of killing things.
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A Borat moment anyway
[Read the article: Not that there's anything wrong with that]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The idiocy of politicians never ceases to amaze me.
What's bad about this one, is that Thompson obviously was trying to say something he thought was positive. So, to say something positive, he reverted to Antisemitism. Nice.
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Re: Buffalonian
[Read the article: Gun control or "hopes and prayers"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're right, Buffalonian, without repealing the 2nd Amendment we can't really change the gun laws in this country. But it's mainly because gun freaks get up in arms any time even reasonable gun control is suggested.
The gun lobby is set on this all or nothing, black or white idea of gun control and refuses to budge. They view any restrictions as someone coming to take away all of their guns, and that's simply never going to happen.
I don't like the 2nd Amendment. It was written in a different time, under different circumstances. That said, it does not need to be repealed. Gun nuts need to just meet somewhere in the middle and submit to placing the line between what is legal and what is illegal in a reasonable place.
I don't understand the psychology of people who think the ultimate in freedom is ownership of a tool that exists ONLY for the purpose of killing something.
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Again, why is this just black and white?
[Read the article: Gun control or "hopes and prayers"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cigarette smoking has been curbed, and there has been a big outcry to stop smoking and to limit it to outside. Once the dangers of second-hand smoke were realized, city after city, state after state moved to ban indoor smoking. Smokers have been warned that smoking may kill them. Now, many states won't allow you to smoke anywhere inside. If you're smoking outside, the only one you are endangering is yourself.
If people who owned guns only killed themselves, then there probably wouldn't be much of a push to get rid of them. With smoking, we recognized the threat, and made a move to alleviate it to an extent. We drew a line; the line is indoor vs. outdoor. Unfortunately, there is no "outdoors" for guns. So the line has to be placed somewhere else.
But gun rights people think that they can either own every gun imaginable or own none at all.
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Re: justin case
[Read the article: Gun control or "hopes and prayers"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've never shot a gun in my life. But so what? I understand that they can be handled safely and are handled safely by the majority of users. That doesn't change what their purpose is. Guns are made to kill things. That's what the first gun was made for, and what every subsequent gun was made for.
And particularly insidious are the guns made for the purpose of shooting as quickly as possible. Those guns are made, not just to kill things, but to kill people. Cops should have them. Why should anyone else?