Letters to the Editor
juneausmog
Published Letters: 223 Editor's Choice: 10
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Trying to understand
[Read the article: Who wanted to "cut and run" from Somalia?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the logic behind this statement by Joe:
>How many elections are the Democrats willing to lose by standing on the sidelines and saying it's not their mess so they won't clean it up?
Soooooo, you won't vote for a Dem until they are accountable for their complicity? How this sticks in your craw about the Dems but doesn't for the GOP's gross inability for accountability makes no sense to me.
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My email to Tester
[Read the article: Tester leads and Burns gets testy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was reading an article in Salon.com today about this race against Senator Burns. It speaks about his ties to Abramoff and his dismissal of its relevancy because he brings federal dollars to the state very effectively. Here is an excerpt from the article...
>>So what should matter to Montana's voters? The senator's yard signs and bumper stickers pretty much sum it up, at least from his perspective: "Burns delivers for Montana." Everywhere he goes, Burns talks about all the federal funding he's brought back to the state and how his increasing seniority in the Senate means that the gravy days are still ahead.
Now I don't know about you, but the irony of a Republican senator running on this record really strikes me. Here is Montana, probably full of libertarian-style economists (who in turn, vote republican or identify with the republican party); small government, low taxes, personal accountability (hey, this is a democratic principle too, but you have to admit, the GOP has hijacked it), anti-welfare; and yet they are totally pumped that Burns can bring a lot of federal taxpayer money to pump the local economy? How does that square with these sensibilities? Shouldn't this illustrate that Burns is actually a tax-n-spend Conservative?
Since this is about the only trick up his sleeve, here is a way to show he's got nothing. Work the irony into a commercial...ask Montanan's...Do we want to be relying on the federal government for money and jobs?? Or do we want to create our own jobs through our hard work and innovation. Because if you just want federal dollars to create jobs for you, then you just voted for a Tax-n-Spend Republican.
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Would be interested
[Read the article: Dude, where's my cross?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]in knowing how the family dynamic has changed with this transformation of Stephen as his oldest brother is a very high-profile liberal who doesn't like Bush...
And curiously, Lauren left off his other famous movie, "Threesome" which has a nice sex scene of 2 guys on a girl. Honestly, Stephen has always been uber-cheesy so this path toward calling God 'Homey' and this absolutism is pretty consistent with his movie choices.
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Cannot escape moral relativism
[Read the article: Dude, where's my cross?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As much as Baldwin would like to think he is a WWJD (what-would-Jesus-do) Absolutist, you cannot escape moral relativism. What the conservatives have accused liberals of doing over and over, at the expense of our society, is in practice by right-wing Jesus-freaks like Stephen.
Just watch the GOP crawl over all themselves with their moral relativism on this Foley Scandal. We'll see the same thing when Iraq stops being a republican war and gets scuttled under new Democratic leadership. All of a sudden, these Jesus-freaks will find out that the war is wrong.
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Thanks, King!
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Man, as an A's fan, I was so worried you were going to pick them to win the series. Whew! Now I feel like the A's have a real chance of taking the whole thing. Make sure and pick the Mets to beat the A's in the WS, k?
For the previous author -- Bonderman was drafted by the A's and then traded with German and Pena for Ted Lilly and some Cracker Jacks. Not one of Beane's shining moments...
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Why you might hate your MBA program
[Read the article: I have found hell on earth -- an "MBA program"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cary addressed HOW to cope with your program, but not WHY you hate it. I would venture a guess from your quick descriptions of the professors and students there, that the type of people who are attracted to these top-notch programs are ego-centric, money-centric, type-A individuals who are going to take capitalism by storm. They can't wait to work for these self-important corporations that load up their resume and help them establish themselves in the upper eschelons of mediocrity.
And if you're not like that, it sucks. It really does. You question yourself in terms of failure because the measurements of "wanting" it, like your fellow students, don't add up. Now, here's good news, if you don't care to work for those kinds of companies, then the grades won't matter. Heh.
I went to a top national school in a top business program and was surrounded by people like that. I ventured into a private corporation soon after that provided zero mentorship and demanded 100% accountability and 70 hrs/wk. After 2 years of that, I said never again and have only worked for small businesses and done consulting since.
You don't have to sign onto a lifestyle that an MBA brings. You don't have to work and hangout with those people an MBA brings. Just take the MBA and use it as a tool to open the doors you couldn't open with it otherwise.
And here's another thought, what about a different program that suits you better? Why does it have to be an MBA?
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Billy Bush as the Host of Grease
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh Heather, you forgot the most hilarious part of "Grease: YTOTIW!"; the host Billy Bush. Cousin of Georgie, his penchant for absurdly uncreative nicknames for the contestants have been cracking me up.
I knew Dubya made up nicknames for people "You're Little Stretch, and you're Big Stretch". Colin Powell was known as "Balloon Foot" and Paul O'Neil was called "Big O". But does it run in the family? I guess so.
Before performing their solo, Billy Bush would declare, "This is 'Spiritual Sandy', and that is 'Second-chance Danny'. I made that one up by myself." I wish his cousin had ended up with a job like this; Dubya would have been much more suited to hosting a show like this one than being president.