Letters to the Editor
ash2323
Published Letters: 15 Editor's Choice: 1
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WMD coverup conspiracy
[Read the article: Right-wing blogs discover massive conspiracy to hide WMDs in Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This just proves the quasi-religious nature of conservative belief. Even their own prophet--GWB--has deserted them, but they still hold to the True Faith. The closest parallel to this that I can think of is the Sabbatean Jews who still insisted that Sabbatai Zevi was the Messiah even after he himself gave up and converted to Islam.
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Grima Wormtongue Lieberman
[Read the article: Joe Lieberman outspins the Pentagon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"How long is it since Saruman bought you? What was the promised price?"
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Fox News vs. AirAmerica
[Read the article: The Internet is making us stupid]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cass Sunstein claims that Fox News and Air America are analogous. This is true up to a point, but that point is a very important one. Air America never claimed to be anything other than an outlet for opinion. Fox News insists on posing as a news outlet, and its major spokespeople in fact *don't* admit that there is a conservative bias to their coverage. They merely claim that they are a "fair and balanced" news channel that is just giving rich, white male conservatives a fair shake for once.
If you get all your news from Air America, I pity you. But no one--including Air America itself--ever said you should. Fox News is a different matter entirely.
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Where are the boys?
[Read the article: What teen girls are made of]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Surely they aren't *all* illiterate, inarticulate mooks. Is anybody listening to them?
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Hugs, etc.
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't see this as a liberal/conservative issue, nor even an example of PC. As much as I would like to blame it on the Bush administration, it's an issue of cowardly, short-sighted educational administrators (a redundant phrase, to be sure), if anything.
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Ron Paul
[Read the article: Ron Paul distortions and smears]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why doesn't anybody mention his decades of fellow traveling with racists and extremists like Willis Carto and David Duke?
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Free market and environment
[Read the article: Ron Paul's free, green market ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Given that the human race is the main cause of environmental degradation, I suppose the free market could be of some help when people start dying of starvation, untreated medical conditions, and wounds inflicted by sociopathic libertarian gun nuts protecting their "stuff" from lesser breeds.
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Female prez, etc.
[Read the article: Feminists want just a female prez?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This white, Christian, middle class male is voting for Obama if he shows he's got game by the time he gets to my state. If not, Kucinich, who I suppose is a white, middle class, Christian (in the sense of not being Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, etc.) male. I have no problem with a woman president, if you can find one who isn't a war mongering, opportunistic elitist.
I can understand a woman regarding a candidate's having/not having ovaries, etc. as a factor, but niot as *the* factor. Please, let's get the Schwarzennegger amendment passed soon, so we can elect Arianna Huffington!
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Camille Paglia, enabler of the religious right
[Read the article: Dogma days ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Seriously, does Paglia have any aim in life anymore, other than to prove that she's not one of "those" liberals? The founding fathers were deists. In the sense that they were not Jews, Muslims, etc., and that they probably attended church because it was expected for people of their station, they were Christians. But evangelicals today would regard them as heretics for their adherence to deism, and their rejection of such things as the Trinity, miracles, etc.
And what mainstream "liberals" regard religion as a social problem? On the contrary, I see them bending over backwards to show "respect" to the wackiest beliefs imaginable, so long as they are "religious" beliefs, and their adherents wear nice suits. Look at all the God talk in the Democratic race, for example.
Camille, you might try engaging the real world for a change when you have days off from being a Fox Liberal.
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@ GuyinCT: Dept. of Damning with Faint Praise
[Read the article: Dogma days ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I think that Camille's columns show her to be one of the foremost thinkers of the new century."
Yeah, right up there w/ Elizabeth Hasselbeck (sp?).
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Clinton victory
[Read the article: The comeback chick]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, it looks like privileged, Ivy League educated white women have finally found their voice after being ignored for so long. Oh, by the way, I'm being sarcastic.
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Nader
[Read the article: Scott Bateman: Oh boy! It's Ralph Nader!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The claim that Nader does nothing except during election years is similar to someone who only goes to church on Christmas and Easter complaining that the pastor never preaches on anything but the nativity or the resurrection. A look at his site ( http://nader.org/ ) reveals that he continues to work on the same issues that he has for the last half century or so. Two examples: drug safety and the dangers of coal mining. Sorry if that's too boring for you.
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Mark Cuban's hip
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Apparently, American society today is such that being a billionaire with a hip replacement makes you an orthopedic specialist, without all that screwing around in med school. They aren't asking my 94 year old uncle to talk about *his* hip replacement, and to judge by this interview, my uncle is a lot more interesting.
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Terrorism
[Read the article: Is Briana Waters a terrorist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Does anyone else think this sort of thing might have been what they had on their minds all along? First they came for the Muslims, but I wasn't a Muslim, so I stayed silent. Then they came for the environmentalists, but I wasn't an environmentalist, so it wasn't my problem. Then they came for... Hey, that house on TV looks like *my* house!
(Homage to Ted Rall)
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Neocons
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]More proof, if any is needed, that Neoconservatism is a criminal conspiracy.