Letters to the Editor
Derbig Mooser
Published Letters: 1587
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@WT
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry, Derbig, I meant quickness of mind,
William, I'm not quite understanding you; alces Alces Americanus is known for many things, but, unfortunately, quickness of mind is not among them. Truth be told, he is prey to lassitude, torptitude, anomie, syncope, the heebie-jeebies, and more phobias than you can shake a psychiatrist's bill at.
And I've got a brucelosis which it keeps me wheezing like a calliope.
However, to make keeping track of the US's largest ungulates salient characteristics easier for today's youth, I have worked them into a little song to a well-loved melody, the tune of "Yankee Doodle Dandy" Shall we sing it together? Ho-kay! Music, kappelmiester!
He's, a big tremendous Moo-ser!
Weighing up to fifteen hundred pounds!
With palmate antlers,
Stretching seven feet!
The largest-North-American-member
of the Deer family!
Antlers, just in case you're asking,
Are made of bone,
And grown and dropped each year.
The males are mostly solitary,
They fight in rutting sea-son.
And Goddamit I should have been the National Mammal!
If this song was memorised and sung each morning by healthy, strong-boned, large-breasted, maidenformed, corn-fed, milk-washed country girls, why, I'd be amazed!
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@LWM
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mona,
We need more than the Fairness Doctrine and it should be implemented immediately and cable and satellite programming should be subject to the regulations.
LWM
Holy mackeral, that Mona nearly made me have a plotz last night. Did you catch that? I went to bed hating myself.
First Mona disparaged any notion of "fairness" in broadcasting.
She then absolutely refused to understand the nature of "free spech" within an adversary political and cultural process.
In that context, I mentioned Asperger's Syndrome.
She then wrote in, mentioning that her child may be dealing with this challenging Asperger's Syndrome, and begging for, you guessed it, fairness!
And if there is a venue in which "fairness in broadcasting" can really help, it's information about these conditions, information which will encourage understanding and help people dealing with people who have Asperger's Syndrome.
Asperger's Syndrome, by the way, if recognised and treated, is no bar to high intelligence, high-level function, or even extraordinary acheivment, if there is a certain amount of understanding. Without the concept of "fairness" we will be left with the oh-so-kind-and-fair information dispensed by sensationalistic news and dramatic TV shows. Not helpful at all.
If there is anyone, anyone who needs some fairness, and if there is anyone for whom even money is not a substitute for fairness, it is the parents of children who may have mild or manageable neurological and behavioral challenges!
Or would they rather we get no information but what Rush tells us- that these syndromes are all fake, invented by lefty parents and doctors to get disability benefits. Or that "crazy people" are maniacs and killers.
But the hell of it is- I did go through her letters, and I knew good and goddam well she a) can simply refuse to understand something she doesn't want to, and b) has a habit of demolishing her own arguements out of her own mouth, to her personal cost, if you let her.
And I did it anyway. Jesus, when I type, I turn into Lucy with the football.
But why the hell does she do that? I knew as soon as I started, it would turn out she was the one most in need of fairness. Why the hell would she do that?
She is more afraid of societal co-operation, then she is afraid the world will be a living hell for her kid. Are they that afraid of those awful "negative unexpected consequences of altruism"? (You know- "welfare saps their character" type of thing) Or are they just so afraid to admit we live in a world where we need each-other's help? Beats me.
But I should have known better.
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Ev-ery Time We Ooh...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just won tix to see Diane Reeves
For her sake I completely forgive Minnie Ripperton. All the damage Minnie did to my head was repaired the first time I heard Diane Reeves do it. Not to mention the damage to the song, besides what it inflicts on itself.
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@Che Pasa
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your post leads me to something. When I went to my in-laws last weekend for my Fil's 76th BD party, I was again shocked to hear, as I have increasingly heard for years, bits of right-wing cant coming out of my In-laws mouths. These are Depression era, FDR Democrats, and not those who became "alrightnik-billies" (that's too obscure, let's just say they worked, and hard all their lives)
What happened to them?
Than I realised something awful. At their age, with their vision and hearing TV is more real to them them the world around them. They can always see the people on Tv perfectly, hell, the heads of the talking-heads on the new TV are bigger than real life, with these big screens, and you can always turn the sound up, and up, and up. So you will hear Chris Mathews, when you can't hear your own kids "cause I can hear the TV fine, there is nothing wrong with my hearing"
So added to the authourity of the TV is the fact that now, it's the only thing they can see and hear clearly. These are not bad people, but they are steeping in a right-wing stew which is erasing the realities of a lifetime.
As for Moosehall, I've told my wife more than once that in my house, I have the biggest, loudest head. Anybody on TV is bigger than me, I'm stompin' the screen.
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Ditto me
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]"The Jeremiah Wright controversy and the hoopla surrounding it tell me that the realities of African-American history and culture are not really American. The African-American story is not an American story. That African-Americans are downright un-American and have to prove, according to people like Peggy Noonan, how American we are, when the white candidates have already had their Americanness vetted simply for having white skin."
Well put, and so true.