Letters to the Editor
AJCalhoun
Published Letters: 964 Editor's Choice: 127
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All Quiet on the Western Front - Our Everlasting Shame
[Read the article: War is swell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]While the article is both well-written and redundant (we all know the President is insane, he plans to stay that way, and he is likely to precipiate a series of Constitutional crises), it is refreshing to see the case stated in such blunt, cogent and trenchant terms for a change. It is appreciated as never before that the writer recognizes the likelihood of the coming Constitutional crises, and it is only unfortunate that people, in general, tend to think of crises as bad things. We have rarely been so badly in need of a Constitutional crisis as we are at this moment.
One (or perhaps it was a combo) of the respondents has said that a) "Maybe they [Republicans]don't intend to give it up" - a not unreasonable consideration and one we perhaps ought to be prepared to deal with at the very moment such an unappetizing situation might arise; and b) that "The Dems are equally culpable" for sharing the sources of great wealth bestowed upon PACs and various campaigns. It is worse than that: the Dems are culpable in utero, for being dependent upon the seemingly endless division of the public by partisanship instead of seeking the moral high ground of uniting, by any means necessary, the voting public so as to insure rational, sane and eminently decent people REGARDLESS OF PARTY are elected to our highest offices. BOTH parties are not culpable but manifestly guilty as sin in this respect, and neither deserves the particular alegience of anyone who truly cares about the fate of this particular nation, which is, by the way, one of the most important issues facing the entire planet at the moment, for the reasons cited in the first paragraph. The President of the most powerful, influential and, above all, most responsible of all nations, is, quite plainly, and apparently acceptably, insane. To yield any ground whatsoever to this pervert is to aid and abet the selling out of the entire planet. It is time to call in all chits, cards, favors, and, in the words of the immortal William S. Burroughs, "Pay it all back pay it all back pay it ALL back!" NOW! Now is more than 5 years late, but late is better than never, which may well be our alternative if we continue to sit on our collective dead ass. If we don't feel we owe it to ourselves then perhaps, as good bleeding hearts we can recognize that we owe it to the rest of the world as well as those who gave their all to help craft this magnicent experiment we are now watching be laid waste.
Stand or shut up!
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Bravo Cary!
[Read the article: My husband won't set limits!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At last! My god, what a totally intelligent and very insightful response to a truly crazy-making problem! Hats off!
As to the dipwad who endorses divorce as the logical and overarching solution to everything, hey, I got yer divorce right here. Literally. Wanna LIVE IT for me? Oh, shut up!
Again, props to you, Cary. I am not always kind, I realize, but then I am old and cranky. But I sure as hell don't impose on my relatives nor do I even own an RV. If I ever do EITHER, I hope someone will set the fucker on fire while I'm snoring away inside.
Thank you.
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Which Way to the Vomitorium?
[Read the article: Wingmen: Serving up some "man love"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I read it. I don't know why. It just makes my impending return to DC all the more painful. Does this mean I have to hire my old buddy Raymond again? Jesus! (Just sit there and look like yourself, Ray. I'll seem God-like. Attaboy).
The city once had three solid newspapers...and the Post - or the Stump as we used to refer to it. Slow news week? Pump up Style with some BS about some, well, BS. Not much new here, which has been the problem all along. Once the freakin' Post ate the Times-Herald and subsumed the Evening Star (the Daily News, a wonderfully trashy tabloid, had already gone under on its own), there was little reason left to try. Then Rev. Moon's Washington Times shows up and lo an' behole! Even less reason to work! Next to the Times the Post looks halfway intelligent (an optical illusion) and can now blow its wad doing stories on this kind of crap which, just for the record, is of so little consequence that, well, as you said, the only reason it's even a trend is that is has a name. I feel like Nancy Kerrigan. I just wanna sit on my ass and scream "WHYYYYY?"