Letters to the Editor
Dawggone
Published Letters: 451 Editor's Choice: 69
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Ok, that was funny
[Read the article: Peace out, my Wigga]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And I don't even know about the Wiggles. My son's a teen, now, and I grew up with Trout Fishing in America and Flying Fish Sailors. Baudy sailor drinking songs are so much better for child development than whatever passes for contempory culture and thank you for your stab at ridiculing it. As a parent, I'm not too old to get the joke.
But that's not why I'm writing. What is with the playa hatin on my "Mel Richards" for skewing an overblown kid band and the society of fame that surrounds them. Like have you nothing better to worry about?
You know, I like sports, but like King and Gregg Easterbrook I also watch politics and have to listen to the right wing nuts from time to time. Most of all I listen to them rant about intolerant mind control left wingers who can't bear to let their children hear anything that doesnt' fit they're kumbaya moments, at least when they aren't declaring War on Christmas, and I wonder, "Who the hell are these people talking about?" Since when are there anyone on the left who is this intolerant or believes this crap. I understand straw men but manufacturing loonies from whole cloth? Obviously people can see through this farce.
Then I read the angry responses to King's article (and recently discovered the Huffington Post) and thought "Oh... never mind."
Look people, its satire. The type a good writer who is also a caring parent suddenly notices and can't help but share. No country got invaded, no forests were clearcut, no feminists raped and forced to carry some Evangalist's love child. If you don't appreciate the joke, just move along. My guess is he had fun thinking of it, loved writing about it, and hoped other parents of small children would chuckle at the inside joke it is. Unlike alot of you he won't be spending the cocktail circuit repeating over and over again waiting for someone to laugh.
Speaking of which, the joke about the penguin and Bill O'Reilly who walk into a bar and the bartender asking "Are you wearing a tuxedo with a fake redneck wielding a loofah?" and the penguin says "So what if I am?"
It wasn't funny the first time, or the next time or every tofu and merlot party since then. So please, give it a rest.
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Pelosi, start building the levees up now!!!
[Read the article: 777 days, 20 hours, 8 minutes, 13 seconds -- but who's counting?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, only 777 days to make our world much worse than it is now, and you had better believe that this administration is beginning the two front war: First loot the treasury and hand out as much money and contracts to our rich benefactors as possible. No rat should leave the ship without a welll packed bag. Second, destroy any chance that our government could ever be a leader and force it to be an empire by ensuring that whoever takes office in 2009 feels himself surrounded on all sides. Must not let anyone believe we can get along with the rest of the world. Must make them think we are at war forever against the cheese eating surrender monkeys of destruction. Must continue on our path of all money toward the military industrial complex and all efforts toward a thousand points of light toward a new world order lit by our us or them belief. Because
We are at war all ways all the time and on twenty four hour news coverage.
Gaaah Slovenia I'm begging you for a visa.
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Lordy lordy lordy
[Read the article: Obama, Gingrich and the Bush twins]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A good grief! Honestly, I think half the reason some people speak is to provide an argument for shutting up. Ironically, Newt is his own best argument for limits on the First Amendment.
That being said, let me speak frankly: "Newt you ignorant slut. You're an author! Well, a very bad author, but an author. You must have read a few books in your time before writing your trash. Then again, maybe not. But if you get the chance you might want to read the Federalist Papers and a few Supreme Court decisions, especially those featuring Oliver Wendall Holmes on the bench. No, Newt. Not Johnny Wad Holmes. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Maybe after digesting advice from some of the soundest minds in American History, unlike yours, you'll think before you yell 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
As for Kos, have you ever considered taping yourself when you speak and then playing it back to you? Smart men look in a mirror to ensure their combover is in place, their tie straight and their fly zipped before they go in public. For the same reason you should tape yourself and listen before going out and speaking to the public.
Michael Kinsley. Well I have nothing to offer. Once a moron always a moron. Just quit trying to argue Newt's point will ya?
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So what
[Read the article: Gates: A "clarification" on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Insult the dog themed sock puppet could have been nominated for this lame duck, unplug the toilet, position and he/she/it would have been rushed to the senate floor to be nominated unanimously. Guys and girls, this is like approving someone to replace Beria for KGB chief.