Letters to the Editor
farnsworth
Published Letters: 449 Editor's Choice: 21
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The AP is just selling something
[Read the article: Brit Hume is a "journalist"; Keith Olbermann is "partisan"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No one at the AP (at least I hope no one) really believes any of this stuff. They are just lying in an attempt to persuade confused people.
If partisan (right-wing) hacks are labeled "journalists", and real journalists are named "partisans", perhaps people will confusedly follow along with the lies. This is all done with malice aforethought. As it works less and less, it will become louder and more shrill.
The only question worth considering now is: Will this result in more people being confused and drawn to their side, or more people being alienated and pushed away from their side.
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Help me out here
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hank Aaron is black.
Barry Bonds is black.
I am white.
I don't want Barry Bonds to break Hank Aaron's record.
What role does race play in this?
I was a kid when Aaron broke Ruth's record. I was rooting for him like crazy. I was very naive about race in 1974 when I was 11. I was shocked when a classmate said in speech class that he hoped Aaron didn't break the record because he was black. (Yes, the school was all white. I told you I was naive.)
I believe that the reason behind my hope that Bonds doesn't break Aaron's record is based on cheating. That and the fact that my perceived observation was that during 2001, his 73 home run year, he got an unintentional assist from the umpires in the form of an extremely small strike zone. (King, you may not remember, but we have exchanged emails on this subject before, and you disagree.)
I cannot say how much the fact that Bonds is black affects my feelings on this subject. I want it to be none. But how can I be sure?
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Just wondering...
[Read the article: Poor, poor Gonzales]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anonymous said:
But please, let's keep obsessing about these poor highly paid law enforcement officials losing their precious high profile jobs.
Does this mean you are shilling for the Worst President Ever, or does it just mean you don't understand what is going on?
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So what happens now?
[Read the article: Paul Wolfowitz's fatal weakness]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wolfowitz has enriched himself and his sycophants, at the expense of the DoD, the World Bank, the US military, American taxpayers, the country of Iraq, untold Iraqi citizens, and the peace and stability of the entire world. Is the heaviest price he will be forced pay merely to be losing his position at the World Bank?
No prosecution for treason? For crimes against humanity? No reparations? No prison time at Abu Ghraib?
Personally, I could probably be persuaded to support half-hanging, drawing and quartering, and having his head placed on a pike for all to deride for the next 25 years. But that is only because I can't think of a punishment that rises to the level of his crimes.
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The Al Qaida Strategy
[Read the article: Cheney plays the blame game]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I thought the al Qaida strategy was to get the US to do their bidding. First, get the US to respond to the 9/11 attacks by overthrowing Saddam. Second, weaken the position of Israel by destablizing the Middle East.
Isn't that what we have been doing for the last four years?
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You have years to go
[Read the article: I'm 18 and afraid it's time to break up with my first boyfriend]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At 18, you still have 5 or 7 or 10 or 15 years before you are fully grown up. Don't rush into anything.
This guy isn't the only guy for you. In fact, it doesn't seem like this is a guy for you at all. He has a couple of traits you like, but he is far from the whole package. Don't settle.
You are only 18. You have years and years ahead of you.
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Why King?
[Read the article: Tinky Winky says bye-bye to Jerry Falwell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why did King Kaufman get this assignment. Was it because of Buster? Or did he lose a bet?
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Ask April Glaspie
[Read the article: What you missed while watching "Dancing With the Stars"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ask April Glaspie about angle drilling and encouraging Saddam to invade Kuwait before you talk about how we were right to "liberate" Kuwait.
Saying we were right to do that is kind of like saying you would be right to break into a burning house to rescue the occupants, when you are the one who started the fire.
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The problem as I see it
[Read the article: Psych meds drove my son crazy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is the unswerving faith many doctors seem to have in largely untried medications.
I was diagnosed with depression, and prescribed many different drugs over five years. The best situation was the drug that made me sleep all the time. At worst I lost my job, got into a disastrous marriage, lost my sex drive, and attempted suicide. All of the medications had side effects that were worse than the original symptoms, which never went away. Most of the time the physicians' reaction to the side effects was to prescribe more medications.
My sister was helped immensely by prescription antidepressants, so I don't think they are all or always bad. Doctors just don't know enough about them to prescribe them the way they do. The doctors who insisted that the boy in the story had to have the experimental drugs really should lose their license to practice. (And I don't care if the drugs weren't officially classed as "experimental", they clearly were.)
The point is, doctors need to stop pretending drugs are always the answer, and to be more responsive to the patients' adverse reactions. Ending the pharmaceutical company kickbacks would be a step in the right direction.
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Is waiting a better plan?
[Read the article: More fallout from the Comey revelations]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Would it be better to wait until the next president is in office to deal with this?
The way I see it, it is a choice between spending lots of time, energy, and political capital impeaching Gonzales, and getting a new AG for the last year or so of the Bush presidency, and letting Bush and Gonzales play their stupid destructive games for another couple of years, and then having the chance to send some people to prison.
I think prison terms are much more likely later, when expulsion from office is no longer an issue, since they are already out.