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Published Letters: 81 Editor's Choice: 8
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Two comments
[Read the article: The Weekly Standard's "9/11 Generation"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1) I graduated from high school in 1979, and my father -- a decorated WWII veteran -- actively encouraged me NOT to enter the military, even though Vietnam was over. He thought the services were really a mess at the time. I took his advice -- that's my excuse, which doesn't fall into any of Goldberg's handy categories.
2) I would love to see Goldberg discuss military enlistment and heroism with Kevin Tillman.
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AppleWorks also has a little database
[Read the article: AppleWorks is dead. Long live AppleWorks?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit it, but I've kept my checkbook register in AppleWorks for a decade. I haven't seen it mentioned in any of the "death of appleworks" coverage (here or arstechnica) but AppleWorks came with a tidy little database program and a checkbook register template. I never found a use for something more complicated (a la Quicken). I hope that Apple finds a migration path for people with AppleWorks databases. I sure don't want to buy FileMaker just to balance my checkbook.
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They hate our freedom
[Read the article: Bush on Iraq: "We're kicking ass"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They also don't like that we think kicking their ass is somehow helping them.
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Tangental, perhaps, but ...
[Read the article: James Dobson's Rudy problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Can someone please explain how the hell donations to Dobson's "Focus on the Family" are tax-deductible?
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mizbinkley, you make a good point
[Read the article: The expression "stuck pig" comes to mind]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was about to post a letter saying, in essence, that this video shows why Rush should just be ignored. The more attention he gets, the more he wants, and the more strident he gets in demanding it. But maybe that's a good thing, because it loosens his lugnuts just a little bit more each time it happens; eventually, perhaps, the proverbial wheels will come off.
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It's all self-correcting, right?
[Read the article: Hot enough for you?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Another upside that has gone unexplored: If the earth gets warmer, we'll need less oil for heating our homes in the winter, right?
(Worry not -- this comment is meant to be sarcastic.)
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Doesn't anybody want to be Strong on Freedom anymore?
[Read the article: "Soft on terrorism" or soft in the head?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]EOM.
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The only thing that's missing ...
[Read the article: This Modern World ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... is when it's discovered that the toddler said "present" and not "president" but the RW bloggers don't bother to apologize or correct themselves, but instead started attacking those who had defended the child.
P.S. Loved the bit about "nap time" being code for a sleeper cell.
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The guy's name is really Carlos Castaneda?
[Read the article: Being Juan Valdez ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No wonder the coffee's so addictive.
BTW, I always thought Eric Alatorre, one of the low LOW basses for Chanticleer, should play Juan Valdez. (http://chanticleer.org/about_singers_alatorre.cfm) He could be the singing coffee grower.
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Actually, this explains a lot about Bush II
[Read the article: And then he's going to take a little nap]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We now know that it counts as a prayer when a person locks himself in the Oval Office and says, "Oh, s#!t! What do I do now?"
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I love your blog, Glenn, but ...
[Read the article: Follow-up on the Col. Steven Boylan e-mail exchange]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Why isn't Kurtz "sure what to make of it," and why doesn't he do some work and find out? "
Remember, he was responding to a question in his chat. Howard Kurtz gets lots of questions and usually responds to them ably. I'm often impressed with the breadth of questions he responds to and the clarity of his answers; that he doesn't know details about everything is just common sense, I think.
Think of it this way: He could have neither posted nor responded to the question altogether. (Maybe that's what he should have done, in some folks' opinion.) Then there would have been less attention to the question from the MSM.
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harnassing kids' energy
[Read the article: Disposable diaper diesel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Next up: turning 2-year-old tantrums into a power source. I swear, you could light every home in the Bay Area for a week if you could just figure out how to capture that energy.
It's been done. Haven't you seen "Monsters, Inc."?
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Besides, if al Qaeda destroys the West
[Read the article: Cheney's bogus oil argument]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... who will buy the oil? (There's probably a good Republican argument saying that the best thing we could do with AQ is to do business with them.)
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Want even more satisfaction? Grow your own beans
[Read the article: How I learned to stop worrying and love the recession]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I did this for the first time last summer, and it was very pleasurable, easy, healthy, and inexpensive. And good for the soil, to boot. Here's to fresh beans!
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Biggest mysteries to me are ...
[Read the article: Finale wrap-up: "Lost"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1. When Ben moved the island, it seemed to sink into the ocean. So what happened to all the folks still on the island?
2. Jack and company say they are lying to protect those still on the island. But from whom? Humanity, who would come looking for miracles? Problem with that theory is, the castaways don't know anything about the island's whereabouts anymore, so they couldn't help even the most determined island-seeker.
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"commanders on the ground"
[Read the article: Obama "would rather lose a war ... [than] an election"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It cracks me up (OK, makes me weep) when I hear President Bush complain that "politicians" aren't listening to "commanders on the ground," because when he and his administration (who somehow aren't politicians in his mind) haven't liked what they've heard from the commanders on the ground, they've routinely put new commanders there.
I'd like to think that McCain would be different, but haven't seen anything to reassure me of that.
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I'm with wysiwyg
[Read the article: Rove map shows Obama beating McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To think that Karl Rove's maps have any actual informational value -- as opposed to political value -- seems naive.
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Second-best thing to do
[Read the article: The couple who lived in a mall]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Camping in an abandoned storeroom is the second-best thing I can think of to do in a mall.
First best being what Jake and Elwood did in The Blues Brothers.
"Disco Pants and Haircuts!"
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Late to the party, but ...
[Read the article: A pre-convention memo to Hillary Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'd like to respond to this statement in Joe Conason's article:
"Then if Obama loses despite your wholehearted backing, that will be the fault of him and his campaign team, and they will have no reason to blame you."
Not necessarily. It could be argued (after the fact) that Sen. Clinton's unpopularity -- and that of her husband -- was an anchor that dragged down the Obama campaign. Do the supporters she brings outweigh than the voters she scares off?
I suspect that this argument has been made already, but I haven't waded through all the letters.
I don't really know how I feel about all this, except to say that I'm extremely disappointed that the Democrats seem to have found yet another way to sabotage themselves. I will vote for Obama and think he has the potential to be a good president, but I fear that we'll never get to see that potential realized. It just makes me sad.