Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 186 Editor's Choice: 1
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Let's review
[Read the article: A Bear Stearns (im)morality tale]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"No. You guess wrong. But since the money was made on speculation and did not contribute to the well-being of most citizens of this country, "
-kill all professional athletes and entertainers.
"and since the performance threatens to cause serious trouble for most of the citizens of this country, it would seem fair to require such speculators to live on the sorts of income the rest of us make. "
-debtor's prisons, slavery, theft of all assets. I like it. So did Pol Pot.
'Say $50,000 a year, no more. You would not feel obligated to pay a dentist who wrecked your teeth. '
-I might not. that wouldn't change the necessity of doing so. that's what civil court is for.
"Why should we feel obligated to reward the poor fellow who helped wreck a financial system and has to get by on the "chump change" of $12,000,000?"
-who is we? did you personally force him to buy 5% of his own company?
"That phrase is thoroughly repulsive, by the way. The person who uses it indicates contempt for those who do not have as much money as he or she does. If you are bragging, you have attained the reward of braggarts everywhere."
-I don't care. take it up with the folks here who love to tell you how wonderful their own OCD is as they prattle on about 'nit-picking' Fact is, Fidel, the average compensation of a CEO in the US is substantially more than that. if that bothers you then grab a Molotov cocktail and kill the plutocrats. I mean Bono is damned close to a billionaire and Zack de la Roca never has to work another day in his raging Marxist life. How is that acceptable to you?
"If you are trying to persuade, you will not generate much sympathy. If you are threatening, you have misguaged your opponents."
-Again, I don't care. I don't need more friends and I don't think of you as 'opponents'. Maybe the problem is people like you who are truly deluded the world revolves around them?
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Aycharaych
[Read the article: A Bear Stearns (im)morality tale]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]By the way, one of the fallouts is and will be that many Wall St. firms are very big into philanthropy and foundations and public grants. You will see a big falloff in charitable giving as a result.
Which is ironic and arch on two levels. One - that the rich's failures cascade to the poorest. And two, unlike most charities the pr driven giving on Wall St. is not emblematic of the rich telling the middle class to give to the poor.
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ramoncreager
[Read the article: "The Beijing Olympics debacle has begun"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The PRC lifted several hundred million people out of abject poverty. I've learned that when you're underfed, cold and wet and living with your pigs you don't care about democracy and identity politics that much. After all, isn't even the middle class in the US primarily interested in remaining middle class before all other issues? Aren't you? Or are you willing to trade a 50% drop in your living standard for some Congressional victory?
No I think Edmund Burke got it right in his analysis of the French Revolution and the American Revolution. Successful revolutions arise out of the middle class.
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Salon, generally is starting to sound like Cotton Mather
[Read the article: Say "nyet" to Russia's vodka for ladies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Everything will either kill you or rot your soul. Everything is shit, everyone is wrong (except Salon) the only salvation is to become a Kool Aid chugging loon.
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no it's not so much the war per se
[Read the article: Lessons not learned]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's that the people who we wish would love us, don't. Saloniks want to be loved, yes loved by Arabs, Muslims, Persians, Marxists and criminals of all stripes. Now that they hate us (as if that's a new thing) Saloniks do what comes naturally. Blame themselves. If you hate yourself enough, the people who hate you, who you want to love you, will love you. Works every time.
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Now Every Man a King
[Read the article: "True Enough": More on truthiness and Apple fanboys]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anyone with a room temp IQ and a computer can become an instant expert. We can say whatever we like and remain largely unchallenged. As a result a sufficient # of equally dull morons will flock to our truths and embrace them as their own. Soon enough it becomes its own religion and that is beyond criticism on its face. Now even faith has fact-like attributes.
That's why we live in this post modern Gen-Y world where there's no right or wrong, no truth, no facts, only good and bad feelings we hold about our own and others' agendas.
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Gee and here I thought those incredibly lame Appletinis were for the chicks.
[Read the article: Say "nyet" to Russia's vodka for ladies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Most men I think would rather drink anything else. If that's not a chick drink, nothing is.
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You've been playing MGS4 too long
[Read the article: The "War and Peace" of "Space Invaders"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Put down the controller and mean some Hu-Mans.