Letters to the Editor
Jayman
Published Letters: 42
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Love In The Silicon Age
[Read the article: Why Apple fans hate tech reporters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Like an ever-growing number of humans I take care of many machines. I take care of more than most as I am a computer scientist, but almost everyone spends some of their day taking care of one machine or another. And, as humans are wont to do, we get emotional about the things we are attached to. We love our machines. “My machine is better than your machine.” Now that used to be an emotion usually thought of as a car thing, but more and more it is being transferred to silicon-based machines. There are Apple lovers and WinTell lovers and AMD lovers.....
I don't think tech reporters are any more "hated" than any other kind of reporters, I suspect they are surprised by the emotional responses they get because they think their field is just gadgets made of parts and people who love or hate those things are a little crazy. On the contrary, the craziness, dear reporter, is in your misunderstanding your audience and their beliefs. The line between humans and their machines is becoming less distinct with every passing nano second.
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The Eyes of the Beholder
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama's speech today was a sociological litmus test. Unlike almost all other political speeches it cut like a knife and exposed the inner bias of each of us. Joan saw what she wanted to see--a good politician but not quite there.
I feel sorry for Joan and the other Clinton supporters who would rather have a woman become President than the most inspiring and insightful candidate of our lifetime. But it will be a sorrier day if we let a pastor's bitter words get between a real leader and a country full of people who desperately need someone who is honest about where we are and inspirationally optimistic about our future.
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Wow!
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's long strange journey on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Joan,
I took some time and read many of the letters here. Your readers are much clearer and informed about all this than you are. The response is overwhelming: you are letting your support for Hillary Clinton bias your non-daily daily editorials. Either stop it or stop writing until this fight is over. Your bias is understandable, just not appropriate for your job here. If you really want to help the Democratic Party you should prepare your fellow Hillarianiacs (joke) for her unavoidable defeat. How you can let your love of a hopelessly damaged candidate blind you to the power of Obama's character and message is sad in the extreme.
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THe Rest of The Story?
[Read the article: Clinton camp goes on offense against Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]OK, you posted the Clinton points, now examine the truthiness of them, please!
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Questions
[Read the article: "God talked to me today"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nothing is gained by asking questions about God. As Buddha is said to have said when asked if God exists, "The question does not edify."
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The Uncurious
[Read the article: Journalists, McCain and the false Iran/al-Qaida link]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A little perspective about Senator McCain's foreign experience: McCain still maintains, as he always has, that the USA should have and could have won the war in Vietnam. This is the bedrock of his “experience”. This is what we know about that. His experience in Vietnam was 22 bombing runs over Vietnam and one unsuccessful run where he was shot down, imprisoned and tortured for 5.5 years in Hanoi. His experience in Vietnam is analogous to an Afghani fighter captured in Afghanistan and put in Guantonimo for 5.5 years. That Afghani would understand as much about the USA and its people as McCain learned in his experience about the Vietnamese. (The biggest difference in those two experiences is that McCain actually killed thousands—which may make his torture by the Vietnamese more understandable.)
If McCain had studied the history of Vietnam he would know we should never have waged that war and would never have succeeded. If he had studied the history of that nationalistic war for independence he would have realized the immoral nature of his bombing runs. The Vietnamese have been successfully beating back foreign invaders for the last 1000 years in the same way they defeated us.
My understanding of Vietnam started with my being drafted; spending 6 months in the jungle as a grunt, being wounded and then made a combat correspondent for the 1st Air Cav. When I went back to college I studied the history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War. McCain was evidently too busy building a political career to learn about the war he fought in. His unwillingness to understand the wars he is so sure we must fight is an inglorious extension of Bush's mindless belief in the Black and White of righteous wars.
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A Possible Future
[Read the article: Journalists, McCain and the false Iran/al-Qaida link]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We can be sure that if we have a President McCain the future will be "da bomb"!
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Really?
[Read the article: How the long primary battle helps Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I suggest you want to believe this will not hurt the eventual Democratic nominee because you still want to believe Hillary can be that nominee. We all rationalize but you are becoming a master!
I do not see how this helps Obama. And the serial lying--at least five times--should be all she wrote for Hillary. If she does not see the reality of her postition why do you think her "fighting on" will do anything but give words and pictures to the Republicans to use against Obama?