Letters to the Editor
Derbig Mooser
Published Letters: 1588
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@WT
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have already posted the "Mooser Theme Song" (sung to the tune of Yankee Doodle Dandy) but I will not, will not, under any circumstances post the tender ballad "When it's Moose-mating Time in Albuquerque" nor do I feel constrained from not posting details of what is ignominously appellated "rutting",
like the "Underwear Dance" and "Lucky Underwear" nor do I find myself compelled to offer any explanation for the fact that they must be two sizes too big!
Consult any reputable biology text for the details you dirty old man!
And yes, William, as you know only too damned well, I shoulda taken a left at Albuquerque.
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That's What I Like About the South!
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Different time, different court, different political landscape = completely different (and correct) application of the equal protection clause
I wish I was in Dixie!
Hooray! Hooray!
In Dixie-land, I'll take my stand!
To Live and Die,
In Dixie!
Hooray! Hooray!
To live and die in Dixie!
Sure, one day it's Plessy-Ferguson. hey and 50 years later it's Brown vs. The Board, and fifty years from now, who knows? Maybe hoop-skirts will be back in fashion, too!
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Mona
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I could giver Mooser the link he wants
Wait til my wife goes to sleep. Sometimes it takes more than one pint.
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@The Nose
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sorry, I really didn't give your analysis of judicial ideology the thought it required. I see now, with a little bit of tact, the whole thing could be managed nicely, you just have to coat it with a bit of honey:
"Listen, my brothers, you knopw how it is, the ideologies well, they are a-changin as this one white guy once sang, and you got to change along with 'em. Hey, it's been a nice run for civil rights, but you know, you used to straighten your hair, too.
Well, I'm really sorry about this, but seperate-but-equal is all the rage again, see, but this time, it's gonna be really equal, we promise."
But you know how they are, Nose, you got to show a little muscle, so let's wrap it up with: "Now listen homies, if this SbE system goes bad, we might just go all ante bellum on your ass, not that that wouldn't be the best thing for you, cause you remember who good we were to ya' during those wonderful days, why even now I can hear the banjos strumming, soft and low!"
Wow! I can hardly wait for indentured servitude. Shit, we should be able to manage debtors prison with hardly any effort at all, just a slight change in ideology.
Cause, see, there hasn't actually been any progress in civil rights, just changing fashions in race relations which are liable to revert to a retro look at any time. Sure, that's just how it is.
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@LWM
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's some good postin' there, pal! Interesting and provoking.
But provoking in a good way. Thanks.
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Talk About Fashions!
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]by cutting thro' the cartilage of her nose a hole of one half inch diameter at the least.
From now on, when anybody I know gets a piercing, I'll call it getting "Jeffersoned"
Whoa! Nice "Jeffersons" you got there.
Hey, it works, sort of. Maybe not, huh?
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Mona
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Opposition to persecuting
Persecuting and prosecuting are two different things. Please don't conflate them.
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The Quality of Mercy is Not Strained, its Pureed!
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's individual rights above all else, carried to the absurd extremes.
It's like some kind of libertarian suicide pact, to me.
It gives me, when combined with her own statements about herself, a mixture of pity and annoyance which is quite disconcerting.
Or maybe she's just so rich and smart she, and her children, need nothing from the world, and its troubles are only a source of contempt or amusement.
One minute she's begging for fairness, and the next telling us nobody is entitled to it.
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@Mona
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]You know what, sister, since you felt free to get nice and personal with me (incoherent, projecting) let me return the favor.
You have no idea what fairness or social reciprocity (as liberals understand it) means, because you don't really know unfairness or social abandonment and their consequences. And that is, to me pitiful.
And please, pal, don't spill any more of your personal challenges or misfortunes in a bid for that fairness or reciprocity.
You are, by your lights, only showing how well you deserve them.
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@oomex
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just don't understand why anyone, gay or straight, would want to be associated with this barnacled and hypocritical institution.
I felt just the same oomex, and I was prepared to put my feelings into action, too, damnit! This bird you can not tame!
That was about a year after I got married. No one was gonna keep me tied up, when a world of slavering polyamory and polygamy awaited. I had links, phone numbers, photos and was headed for those non-sexclusive communes Mona talks about.
Than, at a family barbeque, I found out my wife had neatly plugged her former helpmeet about a 1/4 inch from the femoral artery. (Late can-to-the-curb situation)
After that it was strictly love-and-marriage, horse-and-carriage, can't-have-one-without-the-other around here. I didn't wanna go out like that! So instead of polyandry, it's strictly poly-laundry if you know what I mean.
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@The Nose
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]"the ideology"
That's why. Would you explain how "ideology" fits in to a discussion of Supreme Court Justices? What would you say are the competing "ideologies" you are talking about.
I really think the word you want is "principles", but that would sort of put a big crack in your argument, no?
Are you saying the liberal Constitutional aproach to civil rights and liberties is an "ideology"? Which one would it happen to be.
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@LWM
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Polygamy or legally sanctioned plural marriages will be a hard sell
Are you kidding? I'm so ready for it, as soon as I get my wife's permission!