Letters to the Editor
stilltheone
Published Letters: 506 Editor's Choice: 31
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Give him the hook...
[Read the article: The passion of Jim McGreevey]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There are good gay people and bad gay people, just as there are good and bad straight people. But when straight people are bad, unlike when gay people are bad, the world doesn't tend to associate their badness with their straightness.
Like pedophile priests and congressmen, McGreevey's whole story makes people associate gay with bad and bad with gay. He is helping no one by trumpeting his story, not even himself which is clearly his only goal.
Gay people and groups should uniformly condemn him and his cynical attempt at character rehabilitation.
Please Gov, get off the stage before you do more harm to the movement than you've already done.
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Default Answer # 1
[Read the article: I'm in love with a man of inaction!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Another letter to which the only required response was "Maybe he's just not that into you..."
I'll say this for the boyfriend. He's not locked in to a challenging job, an expensive house or a demanding girl friend. He earns in excess of $100,000 per year. He's liquid, available, and mobile. He's a man with infinite options available to him. And he (to our knowledge) is not bitching about his life or his girlfriend to a cyber-therapist.
The LW, on the other hand, is hopelessly in love with someone she is completely incompatible with.
I'm liking his situation better than hers.
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It takes more than righteous anger...
[Read the article: Miracle drug of anger]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To those who fret that the Foley matter is a diversionary tactic designed to draw attention away from our incompetenent President, the war in Iraq, and other governmental atrocities, I ask: should it matter if the nation has ADD when each new issue it lands on paints a worse picture of the Republicans than the prior one?
It isn't the nation's attention deficit I worry about, it's the inability of the Democrats to offer real leadership and new ideas and to come together as a group around something or someone other than the other party's sexual misadventures. I fear this latest embarrassment will drive voters of all persuasions away from the polls in droves.
Somebody needs to show a way out of the mess we're in. I'm liking the Mike Bloomberg for President concept more and more.
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And does anyone really want to go back to Dan Rather?
[Read the article: Guns don't kill people, abortions kill people]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Atypically for me, I wasn't particularly bothered by that Free Speech episode. The segment is clearly identified as "opinion" rather than "fact", and that evening's right wing slant is more than balanced by Bob Shiefer's frequent and quite leftist rants on other nights. Also, it was obviously designed to get under my skin, so I refuse to give a television network the satisfaction of actually getting angry over it. Besides, the guy lost his child tragically and has probably earned the right to believe -- and he may not be entirely wrong here -- that a culture which devalues life is partly to blame for his loss. I might have cited the glorification of violence in movies and video games, America's Rambo policies abroad, and the hate politics of the far right before I mentioned school prayer and abortion, but, I dunno, something about the guy made me want to cut him some slack.
Meantime, I'm just loving Katie at Night. I'm completely fascinated by where she stands, how she moves, what she wears. (Is it me or is her hair actually morphing toward yet another new Katie-do?) I love her attempts at incorporating AM Katie into PM Katie, even the ones that make you kind of cringe -- like when she announced the Amish shootings had made her "literally sick to her stomach". I thought: She's America's sweetheart, damn it. Won't someone please bring her a Bromo-seltzer? Make that Free Speech guy do it.
Of course, you'd have to be an idiot to rely on this show or any evening newscast as your only source of real information. But for shear entertainment value, it's right up there.
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Time Warp
[Read the article: Sullivan's travels]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sullivan has many interesting things to say. What I find difficult about him is that he is too old to be as naive as he is/was about George Bush and too young to believe that Republican conservatism can possibly be about I'm OK/you're OK. The Goldwaters and Rockefellers had long since left the stage when Sullivan adopted this party as his own. He is a libertarian in a party which has abandoned libertarianism. No wonder he's been so disappointed.
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Ready, set, GOVERN
[Read the article: Sullivan's travels]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I would regard Sullivan's mea culpa as generally helpful to the cause of liberating Congress (and perhaps, in 2 years, the White House) from Republican control, so I see no reason to crap all over him like most posters here.
Withdrawing from Iraq seems like a no-brainer -- I just hope the Democrats have at least one other idea if and when they take power.
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Or maybe ride around in a wheelchair for a hoot...
[Read the article: The Fix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks George. Homophobic humor is always appreciated. Next time, why not pretend to be black. Really, it's every bit as funny.