Letters to the Editor
Tyler_Mason
Published Letters: 490 Editor's Choice: 41
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fervently left-wing?
[Read the article: Get your facts right, boys]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe left wing in the recent years, but anyone who speaks against the administration's various lies, corruptions, and abuses of power is viewed as left wing. If a dem gets elected prez, then salon will still report the truth and will appear as somewhat right wing. Recall that salon was not too gentle with clinton when he sat in the big chair. That was during Dave Talbot's watch though.
It is amazing that standing for the truth can make you left wing one day and right wing the next.
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@djansing
[Read the article: Ari Fleischer: It gets worse]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From among Ari's fool comments, you picked something truthful to pick at. We all do lose a little something every time one of our soldiers catches metal in iraq. Those really are ->our<- soldiers. They are not bush's soldiers or the military arm of the neocons. They are ours. We owe them the duty to get them the hell out of iraq.
What many folks fail to understand is that our soldiers really are acting in our name. We might not like it and we might deny it, but they are. Neither a "Not in my name" bumper sticker nor angry denial can change it. The only thing that can change it is bringing our soldiers home.
Oh yeah. Buy them a beer or help 'em get laid when they do return. If we had done our part 5 years ago there wouldn't have been an operation iraqi freedom.
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bumper stickers
[Read the article: War Room contest: Pick the Democrats' bumper sticker]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dem: Operation American Freedom
GOP: George Who? The GOP is new!
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Thanx Catherine
[Read the article: It all goes back to trail mix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What you're noticing is the hidden inflection point in which science morphs into conjecture. The studies find a gender difference in remembering where things are. That is science. It starts with a hypothesis (is there a difference?) tests the hypothesis, and finds an answer (yes, there is some difference). That is science.
Then the conjecture part begins. Varied people with agendas ranging from rationalization to ax grinding make up bullshit like "because women used to look at the sunrise and sun set while men looked at the blue sky..." That is pure conjecture and has absolutely no scientific value. The reason it has no scientific value is that it is neither a hypothesis nor data. A hypothesis can be tested. Data comes from an observation. These conjectures are neither because we can't go back in time and make observations.
Sadly, most people have forgotten that the basis of science is the scientific method. Instead, sounding smart and secular while spouting bullshit is perceived as rational scientific thought.
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my nits
[Read the article: Ari Watch, continued]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lots of others have commented on the lighting hence I won't.
Thank you for saying "I thank him for his service." Most people say "I would like to thank him his service." I guess more words sounds more important while not actually saying thanks.
The other thing is that you look too pained. Kind of like that girl in the verizon commercial that looks like she's sitting on a roid or something.
your fan, tyler
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twits
[Read the article: It all goes back to trail mix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]anon twits. The observation is in the present. The event is in the past. All observation are of past events. Astronomers begin with a hypothesis and test it. They can't look back in the time at past observables that no longer are observable. (That means they can't dial the telescope back 200 years and observe the star of Bethlehem ).
As for the other twit saying you can't rerun evolution and hence it ain't science. Wrong again. You can still make a hypothesis and test it. The test may involve digging up old bones or looking at old museum collections, but the hypothesis is still guiding the observations.
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I made this mistake.
[Read the article: How can I love my Republican parents?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Firstly, AJCalhoun rocks. fantastic post.
LW is at that point where he must decide if he's a fair weather friend or a good friend. I erred
Even though I'm a republican, I've despised the neocons since before bush was elected. Regardless, my friends at that time ran the gamut from neocon to ultraliberal to earth firsters. As the drum beat to invade iraq, I severed my relationships with many of the pro war crowd because I felt too morally superior.
Sure, I made new friends who thought proper thoughts, but the depth wasn't there. Some of the people I had turned my back on have known me for decades. The newer friends couldn't look at my posture and know what I was thinking about. Worse, I hadn't experienced the new friends during their down years. That is when you learn someone's character. If someone is a good friend when their life sucks, then they are a good friend. Anyone can be a good friend during the good times or when you agree on stuff.
I've spent the last two years rebuilding bridges that I should never have burned. Luckily, I didn't write off my parents. It was tense though. Most of the other relationships are regrowing because, well, they are good people and good friends.
All the current political stuff is transient bullshit. Bullshit eventually gets washed away in the rain. Family and friends weather the storm. Treasure your family, treasure your friends. Argue the bullshit.
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@polly
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You still make me laugh. This time, though, I sense a little ironic jujitsu. Some responses to your article expound on how stupid we Americans really are. No surprise, no ironic twist, just dull.
No, the jujitsu is that you sucker some people into demanding that not every American loves gw, fried food, and wet naps. They then give a little vignette to differentiate themselves from the stereotype. This, as per your plan, unbalances them (further). Still, you don't cleverly snap them down. No, the best techniques encourage people to throw themselves to the cobbles. Which many do in other threads by painting all republicans/conservatives/christians with the same broad brush and assuming complete homogenization. Then one day, when the irony thumps into their perception, they'll curse you. Well taught, sensei.
Hey, what ever happened to terry colon?