Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 77 Editor's Choice: 11
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translation
[Read the article: Come again, Cindy?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In right-wing Newspeak, "expressing your opinion" is code for "blatantly lying, but in a way that helps our cause." The same way "rewriting history" is code for "telling inconvenient truths", and "freedom" is code for "American military hegemony". Just replace those phrases, and things both Cindy and George W. say start to make more sense.
Judith Miller has the right to blatantly lie on our behalf.
Critics of the war have been trying to tell inconvenient truths.
Our soldiers in Iraq are fighting for American military hegemony.
If you're against the war, you're against American military hegemony.
Operation Enduring American military hegemony.
It all makes a lot more sense. Someone should really put out a translation guide.
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marta, is this Broadsheet or Broad Generalizations?
[Read the article: Finally, women can pay for sex too!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just because the men you go out with don't give you the respect you feel you deserve doesn't mean such men don't exist. And you think someone who's fucking you because you're paying them is going to be overflowing with respect and post-feminist understanding?
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The Larry King Factor
[Read the article: Too old for the altar?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't forget, though, that there are a certain number of people who, for whatever emotional or psychological reasons, just can't hold a marraige together, although they try several times. I got married at 26. I'm hoping my wife and I will be toasting our 50-year anniversary one day. That means I show up in the under-27 group as a 1-0. But say I'm a complete asshole. I cheat on my wife constantly, I come home drunk, etc. She kicks me to the curb. I repeat the process with wives 2-6. Now I show up in the under-27 group as 0-1, but also in the over-27 group as 0-5. That heavily weights the over-27 group negatively.
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don't forget 9/11
[Read the article: Paging feminists, Aisle 3]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]According to Jerry Fallwell, 9/11 happened because of "feminists, abortionists and gays." Damn you, feminists!!!
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Colts just might go undefeated
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...if King keeps it up. If every week, you write about how "the Colts are going to lose in the next few weeks," isn't that like reverse-jinxing them, and insuring that they'll keep winning?
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being gay isn't analagous to drug use
[Read the article: Principal tattles to mom, lesbian teen sues]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cynthia, handing out report cards is the purpose of education; drug use is illegal. Monitoring students' love lives has no educational or legal purpose. It's patently absurd to say that if the school has no business outing students, it has no business grading them.
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The 11th Question
[Read the article: Ten ways to argue about the war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Where do we go from here? Or, put another way, what ever happened to the War on Terror? In invading Iraq, Bush pulled virtually all of our resources away from dismantling Al Qaeda and bringing Osama bin Laden to justice. I believe the phrase "dead or alive" was used prominently, then quickly forgotten.
So, if we do wrap up our misadventure in Iraq, where does that leave us in regards to 9/11? Do we finally get around to going after the perpetrators? Do we pretend that installing a friendly government in Iraq somehow provides closure for the 9/11 attacks, despite a complete and utter lack of connection between the two things? Or do bin Laden and his people have to kill a few thousand more American to remind us who our enemy actually is, before Bush sits up and takes the action he should have taken on 9/12/01?
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If you have religious objections to performing medical procedures...
[Read the article: Religious conservatives: All women should be pregnant! Oh, except you]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...maybe you shouldn't be a doctor. Just a thought.
As for Jessica's comments, you clearly have a lot of anger to deal with - could it be that it has more to do with your cousin's specific situation than gay parents in general? Because I have both friends and family who are gay parents with perfectly happy, well-adjusted kids, and on the whole, all evidence shows that children of gay parents are no worse off than their straight-parented counterparts. In fact, they may be better off, because straight parents often get pregnant unexpectedly, and wind up with kids they're not financially or emotionally prepared to raise. That doesn't happen to gay couples.
And all this hand-writing about "not having a father" is crap. How many kids out there are raised by a single mother on her own? You can't tell me someone with two loving parents, both female, is worse off.
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a few days late, and a trillion or so dollars short
[Read the article: The good old days of the press]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Good for Wallace. Why the hell didn't he, or someone - anyone - ask that question when it should have been asked, in 2000, when Bush was running for office in the first place?
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Truth be told...
[Read the article: "We have tortured an elf"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]this War On Christmas isn't being fought against Christmas; it's being fought by anyone who dares not to celebrate the damned holiday. No one is being prevented from celebrating Christmas, but that's not what nuts like Bill O'Reilly are up in arms about - it's that city governments, schools, and retail chains like Target aren't celebrating Christmas, or aren't doing so vocally or visibly enough.
These far-right Christian wackos (and that's not a knock on Christians in general, just the crazy ones) see it as a tremendous threat that any public space should exist that doesn't shove their beliefs down people's throats. Never mind that Christmas, the way America celebrates is, has about as much to do with Christ's birth as rabbit-delivered chocolate eggs do with his death.
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whaaa...?
[Read the article: Baby, we were born to breast-feed?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]AnitaBonita writes...
> society doesn't support breastfeeding. They don't, folks.
What the hell society are you living in, Anita? My wife and I are bottle-feeding, and when some people hear that, they look at you like you've announced you're letting the baby sleep in the backyard under a tarp. The "breast is best" mafia have no qualms about butting in and telling you, basically, you're harming your baby by using formula, despite no evidence that it's any better or worse for them.
Never in my life have I heard of someone telling a woman who breastfeeds she's hurting her baby and should really use formula
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bias study... biased?
[Read the article: The Fix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'd be very interested to see, in that media bias study, how much more conservative the media would look if they did take Op-Eds into account. Because it seems like most of the conservative mainstays - O'Reilly, Coulter, Hannity, etc., deal in opinions and not facts, and were therefore omitted from the study. So they're basically saying, "if you leave out a bunch of the conservatives, then the media is sooo liberal!" And by " sooo liberal," we mean "to the right of Joe Lieberman."