Letters to the Editor
AnnieW
Published Letters: 1211 Editor's Choice: 31
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Economist or Opinionator
[Read the article: In defense of Krugman]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You can google up Professor Krugman's bio if you really cared...
Here's a tidbit, Prior to his appointment at Princeton, Krugman served on the faculty of MIT from 1979 until 1999; his last post was Ford International Professor of Economics. He has also taught at Yale and Stanford Universities, and in 1982-1983 he was the senior international economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, during the Reagan Administration. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the Group of Thirty. He has served as a consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations, and the European Commission, as well as to a number of countries including Portugal and the Philippines.,
I guess once he starts opinionating that the background he has no longer applies...he magically "forgets" his economics background and should be given the same weight to weigh in on the economy as your average blowhard on Fox.
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Trees and politics
[Read the article: The burning question]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I live along the Cleveland National Forest, probably will be forced to evacuate tomorrow, I'm looking at the growing orange glow across the ridgeline. When friends visit from the Pacific Northwest, or the East coast, everbody comments that it doesn't "look" like a forest to them. They even laugh at the designation.
It's brush. It's dry and hot and tinder. Logging would do NOTHING to solve the issue. With the wind speeds what they were, fire breaks did nothing either. I've had ash raining down on me for a couple of days. Right now it's calm, but the fire advances.
I live in an area that is small but has been developed for over 40 years without being burnt. I hope that remains the same.
I find it weird to politicize such an issue, but at the same time we have the RW blogs screaming that we deserve it and/or say how much better we handle things than the completely different New Orleans. Dana Rohanbacher(R) was blaming it on the US Forest Service and bureacrats. I know, I bet he'll suggest cutting budgets and a tax cut to solve all this....maybe privatize something.
I think it's fair game, everything else seems to be.
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Canyons, maybe
[Read the article: The burning question]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm going to get a bit defensive here.... Irvine is hardly the wilderness country. The parts that burned originally were just some hills that were brush covered and the scrub along the road. The Northwood portion of Irvine is typical Irvine Co. and that means overdeveloped condos, townhomes and expensive apartments. Rancho Bernado is like any suburb I know, my friends that lost their place lived in a stucco, tile roof development of 2 bedroom homes with postage size yards.
I love the moralizing of the people that presume to say we should have seen it coming, just like the people on the west coast do when we see hurricanes.
The Irvine/Santiago fire has now progressed to the canyons where there have been homes for as long as I can remember and into the Cleveland National Forest. I'm devastated to think of the forest burning even if no homes are lost.
Just remember that the TV is showing the most glamorous pictures, which means mansions in Malibu which everybody feels the need to attack. It's not showing Ramona, Escondido, Rancho Bernardo, Solano Beach, etc. which were all affected.
And damn those people who live by Arrowhead and are brazen enough to live in a ski resort town like Big Bear...have they no shame?
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I don't want to pay.... (Waa, waa)
[Read the article: The burning question]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For people that live in hurricane zones, for people that live in tornado alley, for people that live in earthquake zones, for people that live in flood plains (look it up, those that feel so smug), for people that live in big cities that if there is a power outage than more than a few days all hell will break loose, for people that live in a drought area (again look it up), for people that live on the coast, for people that choose to live near chemical plants, near nuclear power plants, etc.
But God forbid, we cut the budget for upgrading B-2's...that endangers us, that we NEED to pay for immediately.
The rain has helped me, I'm fine, but I don't resent helping my fellow neighbors now or when Katrina hit, or when a future flood hits Kansas.
By the way, who the Hell is going to pay to f**king weed a national forest? Huh? The things are bad here in a large part because of drought and arson. Fire breaks don't work with winds over 50 miles an hour.
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My old dog...
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]would have been better at running things than most I know...even if she did dig a hole in the backseat of my brand new car. Hmm, maybe it was plot?
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pizza bones for bebop-o's dog
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Eyes fixed, wanting a Pizza crust, begging with a gentle glance, and patient as if the cold-dough was a buttered flapjack warm from the skillet.
That sentence brings a smile to my face.
At my house, we always call the crust "pizza bones" and they were always saved for our dog, who wasn't that subtle about her begging....
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Pick grapes at night
[Read the article: How green is your bottle of red?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was speaking to the owner of a small local winery and he was bragging about how good his wines were and that he has the grapes picked at night because it is better for the grape, blah, blah.
After he left, it was disclosed that they pick the grapes at night because it was so expensive to have refrigeration available for the fresh picked grapes. The owner did this to save money.
This winery is being green without trying to.
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Boylan's denial
[Read the article: Col. Boylan's implosion accelerates]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is weird, Boylan doesn't seem to sense that he's digging himself deeper.
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Typing while drunk?
[Read the article: Col. Boylan's implosion accelerates]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have to wonder if that's what occured, and now Boylan can't own up to it.
The term used above "brazen it out" does seem to apply.