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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
kmmartin
Published Letters: 4 Editor's Choice: 1
One of the most consistent things in print about Ms. Coulter is that she is good looking. Really? Anyone who finds that a person so good looking can't possible mean the narrow minded, vile, incendiary things she says has obviously spent no time around teenage girls. So great, because she is "Righ Wing Barbie" we have to keep giving her credence by publishing her sound bites? Ann Coulter is a fame junkie who likes seeing her comments in print. To deal with her offensiveness, I have created a fantasy life for Ms. Coulter wherein she goes home to her wife, sits in sweat pants eating vegan tofu snacks and sends all of her money to women's shelters, crack baby ophanages and to the widows of 9/11 when no one is looking. She has created this monster that brings her attention. She deserves the right to express her opinions. We deserve the right to ignore them. Can we move on and just ignore the problem child - really, if you don't print anything she says, she will go away.
As a resident of Vancouver, I can say that before the safe injection site, and before the advent of Narcan (an injection to overdosed people that brings them back to life) we were losing 372 addicts per year to overdoses. I was assured by a person from a large European city that this was not a "problem". Okay, at what number does it become a problem?
While it may be offensive and even viewed as being immoral, safe injection sites have saved lives, health care costs and contributed to the overall well being of this society.
I have friends who have travelled all over the world who have said that they have never seen anything as desperate as the downtown east side (where the safe injection site is and where the prevalence of the problem is). We now have a decrease in property crime, drug related death and for the first time in decades, a decrease in the percentage of HIV positive addicts.
You may not like it. But it IS working.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
