Letters to the Editor

• I Rest My Case (thank you, Justin)

  [Read the article: Arnold's comeback]
  [Read more letters about this article: Here]

  With the exception of Justin Case, almost every starred letter here says the same idiotic thing, which is the same point the article missed: that Democrats could also learn something from Arnold's Great Awakening. Jesus, guys! I just left California myself, having returned to D.C. after almost five years, and it wasn't because Arnold was messing anything up. He has been rock steady, actually. He has sailed straight according to his own map, having to belong to SOME party, and knowing that he had no intention of following anyone's line. THIS is the pearl of great price that no one seems to be able to grasp. Arnold's bipartisanship works for him, it would work for Republicans (who at the moment seem to have abandoned any pretense to being Republicans anyway, and have formed the new American Facist Party), and it would also work for Democrats. Except, of course, that Democrats are above that sort of thing, above everyone and everything, in fact, and so don't need to pay attention to things that make sense for others.

  And this is why we have a blithering fool in the White House with his strings pulled by the most evil cabal of honkies since the Lyndon Johnson era. Oh, but Johnson was at least a Democrat. Forgive me. I lost my head.

  Justin Case made my case, and so did the voters of California, who continue to send Berkleyites to Sacramento to basket-weave and think up moronic programs to shove up the voters' ass, and my only question is: what the hell ever possessed them to elect Schwarzeneger anyway? He was a Republican (nominally), and he was, and remains, his own man. This is not like California, where the same brain-dead ex-hippies continue to clog the legislative drain with their falling hair and bits of hemp. Why is Arnold even there? Well whatever the reason, Californians of every party afiliation (and there is more than one)can thank God (who doesn't exist, of course)that he (Arnold, not God) found his way into the mansion, because he'll roll over that fool Angelides and there will be another 4 years of slow, up and down, but overall upward progress.

  And here I am back in the land where one must be directed by Burma Shave signs as to how to cross the goddam street. Yeah, the Republicans should take a page or two from Ahnuld. The Dems are too goddam dim to do it.

  Permalink Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:09 PM

• Dawkins Disappoints - in Spades

  [Read the article: The flying spaghetti monster]
  [Read more letters about this article: Here]

  Here I was, hoping to at last read a truly reasoned deconstruction of the phenomenon of faith, or at least a noble attempt at it, and again I am oddly dissappointed. Dawkins has just rehashed the same old hash, the same old white noise of atheism, while adding absolutely nothing new to the cause.

  Now understand, "the cause" is not so much, for me, to convert the world to atheism, per se. But it is at the very least a quest to push people into thinking, so that their faith, pardon the word, will be made pure by reason or taken beyond reason, instead of just repeating the same old magic words and clinging desperately to the Old Rugged Cross. Dawkins has only, once again, kicked the cosmic idiot in the balls by taking on Old Time Religion, which any intelligent person and halfway critical thinker has long since already done and moved on - and yet not joined the atheist juggernaut. To dismiss a "personal God" is too simple and simple minded to be worth my time anymore. I did it when I was about the age Dawkins was when he claims to have, but I never lost my irrational faith in the inability to know the core of the universe, nor the drive to try and do that very thing.

  I may well be the sum of a small ooze of chemicals...but if I am, I still am. Dawkins has brought nothing new to the debate; he has merely posited the diametric opposite of what every fundamentalist believes, and, therefore, is most assuredly guilty of strengthening their resolve to prove him wrong. Nice going, Dick.

  Permalink Thursday, October 12, 2006 10:45 PM

• "...when politics becomes God"

  [Read the article: Breach of faith]
  [Read more letters about this article: Here]

  As a registered Republican and a nominal trinitarian Christian (many have questioned this, but that's their problem), I find it remarkable that anyone is surprised that evangelicals have found it true that lying down with dogs, one will often get up with fleas. I also find it very telling that Christians were, as Kuo states, so enamored of power as to be "seduced" by the Bush administration. The fact is these people who have been pouring on the Cross wrapped in the Flag for the past few years are not representative of Christianity any more than George W. Bush is representative of Republicanism. Both have been guilty of the most hideous failures of character and principle and both must now pay, in various ways, for their perversities.

  "Seduced" is too kind a word. When a guy sees a hooker on a street corner and decides he's going to buy what she's selling because he wants it that badly, he hasn't been seduced. He's been out whoring. So have evangelicals who, by definition can't leave anyone alone, can't not mind the business of everyone with whom they come into contact, and so were properly attracted to Bush and his utter disregard for all those things sane people hold most sacred. Now they are all in a boat together, and a big mother storm is whipping up. Can't call on Jesus to get out of this one, boys and girls. You built it, you climb it. You demand we worship a President, even a sane and intelligent one, let alone the lunatic we have now, and you've sold your soul for a quickie that will cost you for the rest of your natural lives.

  Wish I could help, but I'm too busy enjoying the real "end times." Hey gang, it's The Rupture!

  Permalink Monday, October 16, 2006 09:00 PM