Letters to the Editor
Little Miss Patriot
Published Letters: 51 Editor's Choice: 4
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Um, Dana
[Read the article: Three faces of Karl]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Did it occur to you that maybe he was trying to get you to stop screwing around and do your job? Perhaps the fact that you laughed and went on with your tour instead of handing it off to an aide and going to read the papers on your desk is why you're always so unprepared for press briefings.
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Um, Karl
[Read the article: Coming soon: Karl Rove as Jesus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So, which are you, Beowulf or Grendel? You can't be both. Don't pretend you've read a book you know nothing about. Might I remind you you were the one who leaked that the President read Camus' The Stranger on his vacation, a book about a Westerner who kills an Arab for no reason and has no remorse? Either by "win hearts and minds" you thought they meant "piss people off", or you need to start checking Wikipedia before you open your mouth. Some of us have actually read these books.
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Military mindset
[Read the article: Is this how we support the troops?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To address the first part of the President's statement:
I have several family members in the military, some with high rank. My understanding, not being a service member myself, is that they go where they're told, do the mission they're told to do, and when they're told to stop and go home or go elsewhere, they do that too. They divorce themselves from political ideas of What That Was All About (or compartmentalize those feelings) and focus on helping their buddies do the job they're assigned to do and protecting each other. I don't understand the GOP message that their feelings will be hurt if we "pull the rug out from under them" and reassign them. I thought they were trained not to question where they are sent and why, but to serve with dedication and pride in service. Can't they handle a redeployment? Wouldn't getting to go home make up for having to leave? Wouldn't getting to hug your kids and go to their baseball games and recitals soothe those hurt feelings just a bit?
I asked a young soldier who's headed back if the soldiers' morale was hurt by all this debate about what they should do. "Of course it hurts morale," he said, "but everything hurts morale. Not having a shower in the morning hurts morale. You get used to it."
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Makes me curious
[Read the article: Craig gives up committee assignments]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When McCain said no one who has pled guilty to a crime should serve, it makes me curious as to how many men and women who are serving in Congress have pled guilty to a crime in their lives.
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That's what Gramma says
[Read the article: Maybe they just need to "turn the corner"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]about my son, that he's growing so much bigger, and how I "just can't tell" because I see him every day.
Oh, yeah, because even though I'm lifting him up 17,000 times a day, I'd never notice he was bigger if Gramma didn't tell me. Just like I'm sure the person living in NO, neck-deep in rubble, "doesn't notice" the condemned houses on his block that say "DOA" on the door in red letters until the President comes and points it out.
Hello!
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I'm guessing
[Read the article: Cookies and hankies for our "wounded warriors"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not many of these care packages will be purchased by French-descended Americans.
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I don't know anything about these real people, the Craigs,
[Read the article: What do you call a female cuckold?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but here's some speculation to add to the pile, and I am going to pick on them a bit as my example, even tho we don't know them (despite knowing more than we ever wanted to).
What if she knew full well he was gay, and the marriage is covering her secret, too? Let's not confuse "cuckquean" with "beard", or "willing participant".
I know, this is something that one usually reads evil people saying about Hillary. Forget that, it's stupid. The last thing a lesbian would want to be fake-married to is a panting hounddog. (Egads, what if she were the only woman left in the house after a particularly drunken fundraiser?!)
But just in the Craig situation, they were hastily married 24 years ago after the news broke in the papers that Mr. Craig might be gay. Rumors, sudden marriage. You don't think she was in on that?
And why would she (or any woman in this sitch) go along with it? Perhaps there is money arriving in an offshore account every month to bank against this day. Or perhaps she has don't-touch-me issues because of trauma or some such, and is perfectly fine being a beard. Or perhaps she's a lesbian.
Perhaps "game face, game face," is "oh god, don't look my way next!"
Or maybe she knew because she sat up with him one night while he cried and they talked about it and she really feels for him and promised to be his friend and try to help him cover it up? I mean, let's not leave out plain old compassion for someone that you've lived with for 24 years.
I just wouldn't always assume the wife was unwittingly "cheated on", which is what a cuckold is (the other poster was right, it's about not knowing the parentage of your kids, being lied to). That's actually assuming these women are dumb as stumps and unable to see their marriage rationally.
Although that happens, the blind cheat, but you can tell when it does, by the jewelry. The ones who really got cheated on sport $4 million eight-carat, purple diamond rings, like Mrs. Kobe Bryant, who can hardly lift up her arm.
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He was 68 and portly
[Read the article: Ohio congressman found dead in Washington]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]they're thinking he died of a heart attack but don't know yet for sure. Go to his web site for his pic, he looks like he liked his fried food, rest in peace.
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This, in general, is what I want to teach my son
[Read the article: Lately I've been kissing women I'm not married to]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That it's sometimes not so much about the choices you make as the situation that you put yourself in that gives you a good or bad set of choices.
Which explains Iraq. And the kissing.
Sometimes the best way to keep yourself making good choices is to keep yourself in good situations.
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sorry, folks
[Read the article: Ohio congressman found dead in Washington]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was trying to be nice to the poor man and steer us away from conspiracy theories and visions of homicide, not pick on him. The saddest part was that he appeared to have been alone. I think we can all feel for someone who passes this way, I don't care what party they're in.