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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
bilhelm
Published Letters: 386 Editor's Choice: 3
Post a review of Quatermass and the Pit, it would appear to be more pertinent in today's day and age..
Combine blind arrogance, borderline paranoia, quasi-religious fervor and petty vanity and what do you get? George Bush, recklessly in charge of the most dangerous nation on Earth, that's what you get!
Only one extremely bad episode (the reverse the show). Otherwise wonderful entertainment and that's good enough for me, thank god somebody is creative out there. Clarence waking and asking the homeless if they were dreaming an American dream knocked my socks off for good!
do shut up Bob. That's better!
Colbert has done something that Richard Cohen and most others have not, as a fake reporter/pundit (if you will) he has done a better job than most of the press staff combined. I'm happier than shit on a tulip! Finally, somebody said something to the P(resident) that won't go away, that sunk in to his pep squad and provided a terse and unkind wake up call to the press (corpse). If they want to live in la-la land so be it but don't expect the rest of us to be spoonfed by dimwits with a guilded sense of accountability far and away less binding than that of Stephen Colbert insulting the Chimp god and his cheerleaders.
What a laugh! More like victims of righteous fervor. I'm gay, why should I have anything but contempt for these people when it is obvious I will ever be despised? If dominion ever came into the equation I would raise lions and host a pit as a side business! At least then there would be a legitimate outcry. I love how one can renounce all rational thinking in the name of "God". It is "God" after all, what else trumps that? Christian = Ultimate lemming!
I will always fear my Mother's passing because I will either be the head of healthcare at that point (my brother's are completely inept and make no attempt to hide the fact) or play some disjointed supporting role wherein I do what anyone does who has never understood their mother, her habitual need to meddle and seek out conflict or create her own conflict when there was no legitimate tragedy to be found. I will still suffer regardless. My relationship with my Mother is in some ways very similar (in effect, at least) to the author and not so similar at all as I have no children and my Mother whom I suspect got pregnant every time her marriage at an early age seemed to be going South did not have to go to such great lengths to bare children. She has never changed, and although in one extraordinary moment while my sister's life was in great peril, she apologized to me about her abuse when we (including her) were children in a surreal twilight driveway experience, I will never be able to reconcile my relationship with her. I don't know if I dispatched her apology with "Mom, that is water under the bridge, we have all grown past that" in an attempt to diffuse a maelstrom of unpleasant memory, or secretly refute her genuine attempt at redemption for our haunted pasts or maybe even to deny her the pivotal moment in our relationship where things would be new and hopeful. Of course, now there is new drama and conflict and meddling to be done and that distant surreal moment is simply that, distant and surreal. I'll call her in a hour or two, slip into the only role I know how to play on the telephone (strikingly similar to herself with anti-Bush-isms and character assassinations, or evaluations of other family members who aren't playing by the rules, or maybe a brief mention of my little sister who hasn't made contact with my Mother in 12 years). Yes, Happy Mother's Day. I hope it's quick and tidy, with any luck, like her passing.
Or at least I used to.. I also like the word "humanity", it's supposed to get you all excited about humans and the human condition. At least somebody put forth the effort to help some of these kids and bring them some productive and positive structure. That wanna-be theocrat pedophile should be stuck on a pig pole, but would I then be sacrificing my humanity?
But terror is our national dogma now; "Pedophiles and terrorists and gays, Oh My!" Innocent until proven guilty, my ass. Eckerds should be sued out of business, that police department should be restocked as well.
Here, here! Maybe it's payback for me spamming Freds Phelps site with emails. They all in the same basket, Fred Phelps, the "Puritans", and self righteous mental vacumn chambers who are probably afraid of their own genitalia..
I'm pretty certain most women don't have an abortion with glee in their hearts. It's hilarious that on one hand these well-to-do "Christians" can motivate such an outcry against the killers of babies and on the other hand proudly display "God bless America" and "Support our troops".. I'm pretty certain George Bush (commanding our troops) has killed more than just a few babies.. Out of sight, out of mind I guess. I was born in Mississippi! Some fetuses weren't, some women had to go through what nobody but women can undergo or understand. I can't wait for all these "Christians" to go to Hell.
Maybe you should be a little more "selfish". I love your rant, "drink a beer and paint a picture" to keep creativity alive. I don't think anyone is being selfish by wanting/seeking an occupation and ideal that gives meaning and satisfaction to their life. Out of all the comments, yours is the one that says "Me,me,me" more than anyone else. Did you walk 10 miles through the snow without shoes to get to school too? LOL!
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
Salon headlines in your mailbox
