Letters to the Editor
AJCalhoun
Published Letters: 945 Editor's Choice: 126
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To "Salonmarte": I Feel A Need to Qualify...
[Read the article: Karen Finley smears Bush all over]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]my own comment that "I'm sure George Bush is going to hell." I hope this isn't "speaking down" to you, as you may well have caught my Oscar Wilde reference after that statement. Others may or may not have "got" it. I realize most of this crowd is so hip it can hardly stand itself, but the remark may have been lost in the dustcloud of hoo-hah, so just for you, dear "Old Lady" (and that is such a misnomer in your case, it seems), my remark was not necessarily a second to Finley's closer, although I certainly can understand why anyone would be angry enough with the President at this point to say something like that; it was, however, an observation which I believe (and one first has to believe in some sort of hell). Oscar Wilde has been attributed with the remark "We are each our own Devil and we make our own Hell." If that is true, as the Hindu seem to think as well, then our man in the Oval Office has already stepped into the handbasket of self-made torture, at least for several lifetimes to come.
Of course, that only applies if one believes in that sort of thing.
Which I do.
It was a pleasure to come across your letter. A little fresh air...
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I am Stunned
[Read the article: "This Book Will Save Your Life"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Stunned by the excerpt (I lived through something similar that "happened", but it "happened" fully - and so I had some closure on that part of my story); stunned by the truth in the life-changing potential for a catastrophic event - or a potentially catastrophic one - because I did live through something that fully "happened" and it did change my life - so dramatically that only this little story, this excerpt from an obviously very important book, is as close as I have been able to come (and I fancy myself a writer) to being able to explain, describe, touch upon even, what such an event meant to me, what it felt like from the first explosion of pain to my emergence into a new world and having to shed that old one in order to move deeper into the light.
Finally, stunned by the paucity of responses thus far. Maybe one cannot be touched in any other way than being forcibly placed on the threshold and given the choice to either live or go on dying.
Anhil is right: For such a smart people, we are awfully stupid.
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The Book May Suck...
[Read the article: Instant salvation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]or it may not. For me, that is. I haven't read it yet, so I'm not going on anyone else's word and saving myself Twenty bucks. I write. I may also suck, at least at times. But forewarned is, well, forewarned, at least. I won't blame you, Heather, if I feel the book sucked after I'm done reading it. I can't know that til I've done it. But I have read the excerpt, posted here under separate cover, and that - if only that alone - was worth one helluva lot more than the twenty bucks I'm about to blow. I have too much in common with the Novak character - way too much, maybe
(except for his economic status) to take a pass on this one. Thanks for the challenge. :)
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Racism, Cultural Relativism and a Buncha Other Crap
[Read the article: He has sort of moved in. How do I set some boundaries?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Smartalek hit it on the nose in so many ways. The only thing missing was an indictment of the rambling Anti-American bullshit preamble to the advice given this woman. "That voice" is heard in the Islands, in much of Europe, in Mexico, Guatamala and a goodly part of the middle east as well, and it doesn't matter whether it is fomented by religion, morality (god forbid) or just plain common sense (again, god - who does not exist - forbid!). The bottom line is the woman is being played, she knows it, and yet she goes to someone she knows will equivocate till his ass falls off so that she can rationalize hanging in there a while longer. The "man" in question isn't gonna commit to anything, and he knows he doesn't have to. "Why buy the cow?" and all that.
Of course that would be playing right into the hands of Conventional Mid-cult Morality, and even if it sometimes serves us well, it just doesn't jibe with all the worst the Left has to offer up as "advice." Two strikes, no balls.
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This is News?
[Read the article: More top brass blast Rumsfeld]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well is it?