Letters to the Editor
AJCalhoun
Published Letters: 992 Editor's Choice: 129
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You Lie Down With Dogs...
[Read the article: Porn free]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]like Ann Coulter, well, you're gonna get something on you. I don't give a rat's ass whether you're gay or not or what your political affiliation is (and I'm a Republican and old-school conservative by the way). My only concern was that you seemed to feel you'd been somehow abused by the left - and I do recognize there is a faux liberal element which will do stuff like that, but more subtly than your current group of friends, who will, when the time is right, throw acid in your face and laugh about it. Publicly.
What really troubles me is that I can't figure out exactly what the hell you're beefing about. You seem, for the moment, to be enjoying the best of both worlds, tolerated by the intolerant facist swine (and sows) you've chosen to be seen with, and still getting away with being gay in the midst of a bunch of philistines who will undoubtedly throw you under the bus at the earliest opportunity. What was this article about, exactly? Is it really just a cry of frustration from one of those people who cannot be happy so long as things are going ok? If so, count to ten. It'll all be over by then.
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Is Good Just not Good Enough?
[Read the article: What an anti-Giuliani ad should say]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Giuliani is a freak. In his personal life, politically, morally, mentally - the guy is a trainwreck. If Bush the Younger was in the Right Place at the Right Time on 9/11 we should have been asking then - and still asking now: Would anyone have done any less? Same thing hold true for Hizzoner. Would anyone - no, could anyone - have done any less? Just showing up was all anyone in a position of leadership had to do on that black day.
Swiftboat the guy? As countless letter writers have already pointed out, that is not what Polner is suggesting and to suggest that he is suggesting that is beyond sick: it is utterly without honor. We've been living under those conditions for more than six years now. Do we really need to descend to the level of the swine who have dismembered our very American honor?
Why are we even afraid of Guiliani enough to warrant a piece like this? The guy, need I repeat, is a freak. He isn't going to appeal to neocons, he isn't going to appeal to the patently sane, but best of all, there are several Democratic candidates who make all the Republican clowns (John McCain a remotely possible exception) look like, well, clowns. We have one Dem on each point of the curve. Giuliani? Gingrich? Hagel even? Get serious people! Why would you sacrifice your honor to discredit a man who is a walking discredit to himself - and use the handily self-serving IAFF to help pull it off - when all we, yes WE, need to so is choose our, yes OUR, own candidate with the greatest care.
Isn't it enough that we have three good candidates to their one-half of one? The rest have but to open their mouths to unhinge their jaws. Giuliani is only one sign that my party has come completely apart; for the honorable opposition to suggest "swiftboating" the village idiot and use the IAFF to help do it fills me with dread.
Shouldn't the best be good enough?
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Scott Walker, Not a Minute Too Soon
[Read the article: Beyond the Multiplex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]While any new insights into the life and death of Kurt Cobain are still welcome (to me, anyway), I suspect the subject has been pretty well done to death. On the other hand, maybe at last Scott Walker will become appreciated while he is still among us. And yes, I have often wondered if this strange, dark figure might not leave prematurely, as did the vaguely similar (physcially and musically)Nick Drake, but here we are more than 40 years post Walker Brothers, and there is this incredible body of work even for those who don't enjoy the surrealism of works like "Drift" and 1993's "Tilt" (a truly horrifying portrait of insanity from the inside). Walker's work both with the "Brothers" and on his own throughout the 60's and 70's remains a unique and unparalelled canon of personal pain and beauty and certainly is worth at least a small movie if not at least the amount of work that has been put into dissecting the Kobain phenomenon.
Anyone whose interest is in the least piqued by this film's review here should immediately start hunting on Amazon.com, where much, if not all Walker's work is to be found from time to time in varying combinations. Anything containing the song "Archangel" is worth the cost, and would be a worthy introduction to what Scott Walker, aka Engel, has given us to ponder.
Thanks for not overlooking this legend.