Letters to the Editor
farnsworth
Published Letters: 449 Editor's Choice: 21
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Rabbit Bites and Hometown Baghdad! With the occassional Maher slipped in!
[Read the article: "Anger. Pain. Death. Madness"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hmm, Video Dog went into the toilet not too long after Camille Paglia returned. Could there be a connection?
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Cool, something new!
[Read the article: Maher's new rules: Hurrican't]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh, wait, it's just Maher. The guy who gives a platform to Ann Coulter. Yeah, he is worth my time.
Thanks Video Dog!!
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Don't get me wrong
[Read the article: "Anger. Pain. Death. Madness"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am glad to watch Hometown Baghdad. I want to keep watching it. But I don't want that to be the only thing that Video Dog is about. Which, unfortunately, has been the case since the very first episode.
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@Jason Wolfe from Newhall
[Read the article: Maher's new rules: Hurrican't]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So, Maher uses a shrill talentless hack as a foil. That's setting the bar for himself quite low, no?
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@Wesley Powell
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No RBI on a double play has been the rule for as long as I have been watching baseball (almost 40 years). I agree with it. I also think that double plays should have a more adverse effect on a player's batting statistics. Just my opinion.
And the reason wild pitches and passed balls are not counted as errors, is that they don't have to be. They are counted already as wild pitches and passed balls. They have the same effect on earned runs as errors, i.e. they can make runs unearned. Counting them as errors would mean counting them twice.
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This gets sooooo old
[Read the article: The world's largest radical fringe]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]OK, some Republican bloviator makes a claim that mischaracterizes reality. And then, here in the choir room, you point out how it is incorrect.
What is worse, it relates to the mistaken idea that popular sentiment should drive military decisions. And you act like there is some sudden shift that makes this version of popular sentiment an appropriate one to drive our military decisions, when the popular sentiment of four years ago help drive us into this disastrous venture.
I want the war to end. I want to end the squandering of American blood and treasure in this quagmire. But deciding how best to do this need to be left to the professionals.
The average voter on the streets still lacks the knowledge and expertise necessary to judge what is the best way to prosecute this military venture. It is disingenuous at best to pretend that "what the American people want" is a basis upon which to make military decisions, when "what the American people want" cheered us right into this mess.
Yes, I understand that this is a response to a mischaracterization. But it accomplishes nothing, other than to increase the level of acrimony surrounding this issue.
"Look how wrong they are!!" Yeah, that helps.
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An attempt at clarification
[Read the article: The world's largest radical fringe]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am aware of what a democratic republic is supposed to mean.
I am aware that the professionals have, as of yet, played virtually no role in planning for this military venture.
I am aware that the public sentiment of four years ago was based on lies made with malice aforethought. And that the public sentiment of today might be based on clear understanding of what is actually happening.
I was trying to make two points:
1. Pointing out, in the War Room, the incorrectness of the statement by the bloviator accomplishes nothing.
2. Putting deadlines in the funding bill, just because 64% of the fickle American public thinks we need to withdraw, is not a wise approach. Even if Bush had not promised to veto the bill. If you want to legislate a withdrawl, do it with the advice and support of the military. Timelines that do not reflect analysis of the actual situation are probably not the best idea.
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Un-American
[Read the article: The world's largest radical fringe]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hmm. I am un-American, since I don't think polling data should set military timelines. Sounds like a right-wing argument to me, orbitboy. You should be ashamed.
And popsfiore, you can't really be serious, can you? Congress should set arbitrary timelines without input from military professionals?
Can I identify the proper military professionals? Of course not. That is my point. My opinion that this war needs to end as soon as possible does NOT give me the expertise necessary to make it happen in the way that ensures the greatest safety for innocent civilians and US troops.
I don't know. But someone does.
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He asked for it (?)
[Read the article: At her majesty's pleasure]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Did he ask for it? Pretty clearly the answer is yes.
But did he deserve it? No, he didn't deserve it. No one does.
It was a glimpse at something I hope I never actually see. It was well-written and informative. It was worth four pages, in my opinion.
He did some stupid things, yes. But he also owned his behavior. He didn't blame anyone else, and I didn't really notice any whining. I don't understand why posters are so unkind to him. It's not like he got away with anything.
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Too much editing, not enought content
[Read the article: "Year of the Dog" contest: Submission No. 1]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And too many other dogs.
I would like to see more footage of the dog on the big ball. Zoomed out so I could actually see the context of the shot.
But hey, what do I know.
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What is he saying?
[Read the article: Yeah, but did Hitler invent the Internet?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is he saying that global warming doesn't exist?
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Hey, cut him some slack
[Read the article: "Either we'll succeed, or we won't succeed"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If we let him, eventually he might come up with a definition of success that equals the conditions at the time. Then he can declare victory, and bring the troops home.
If we hold him to his originally stated goals, we will never get out of this mess.
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Wait just a minute
[Read the article: Bill Maher's New Rules: Half-cocked]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some man gets up on a table in a restaurant and emasculates himself, and this is funny?
Disturbing? Tragic? Horrifying? Yes.
Funny? No, not even slightly.
What a bunch of really sick, sick people we are.