Letters to the Editor
kreniigh
Published Letters: 121 Editor's Choice: 10
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I'll even pack a picnic basket and sleeping bag
[Read the article: Colbert: Not just a flop, but "rude" and "a bully" too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Only one thing to add... I'm amused by the suggestion that it's wrong to criticize someone if the target of your crtiticism is unable to respond with a punch to the face.
Where does the line start to punch Ann Counter and Rush Limbaugh in the face, please? I'm willing to wait my turn.
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racism?
[Read the article: Dear Pope Benedict, I am incensed]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm fascinated to learn that there is a Catholic race. What a useful rhetorical tool it is to be able to create new races on a whim!
After reading the following, the whole matter seems quite clear...
Article XIII, Sec. 2 of the Minnesota Constitution reads:
"PROHIBITION AS TO AIDING SECTARIAN SCHOOL.
In no case shall any public money or property be appropriated or used for the support of schools wherein the distinctive doctrines, creeds or tenets of any particular Christian or other religious sect are promulgated or taught."
How can that leave any doubt? I can't see any ambiguity in this issue at all. But then maybe this makes me a benighted racist too?
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Joe Man is an Island
[Read the article: Lieberman wins!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My favorite bit from this article:
"The Democratic Party left me this evening," Russo said. "The Democratic Party does not represent the ideals that it has stood for [for] generations. Joe Lieberman does. I will be supporting him right through November ... The voters of Connecticut [were] easily misled. They don't pay attention to the issues, they didn't think things through, and this is the result."
The Democrats are wrong, the voters of Connecticut were wrong. I guess it's Joe against the world.
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...and kill for Buddha!
[Read the article: The Fix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Stephen Baldwin, in his forthcoming book, on his newfound mission in life: "God has called me to go and make disciples of the youth of America. That is what I am going to do. And if you try to stop me, I am going to break your face."
Yeah, Jesus was all like that too, with the threats of violence. On SOUTH PARK maybe.
Can we please invent a new term for people who claim to be Christians but prefer to ignore the teachings of Jesus in preference for Old Testament-style vengeance and violence? Be like Jesus if you call yourself 'Christian'. Otherwise, you're, I dunno, aJehovist or Old Testamentarian or something. Just leave Jesus Christ out of it.
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What Huh?
[Read the article: It's still the economy, stupid]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"But partly it is we probably haven't done as good a job communicating the strength of our economy because people are doing well."
Wait, wait. People are doing well, but they don't realize it because the administration hasn't done a good enough job of communicating this?
In other words, "What part of 'we have always been at war with Eurasia' don't you understand?"
Hey, that would make a nice bumper sticker.
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Fun that we do not understand is strictly forbidden
[Read the article: "Snakes on a Plane"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Most of the people who are scoffing and wagging their fingers here haven't seen the movie, so they really have nothing valid to say about how good or bad it is. All that disgust is really about the cultural phenomenon surrounding it, and maybe the fact that other people are having a good time in ways that they look down on or don't understand.
I was pleasantly surprised by the movie -- maybe due to low expectations -- and seeing it with a theatre full of wound-up people was tremendous fun. Probably more fun that hunching over a computer complaining about other people's fun.
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Ethnic Shampoo?
[Read the article: Hey, look! It's a picture of me with some macacans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't know anything about Wal-Mart's hair care section, and even less about African-American hair care, but isn't this a case of a legitimate difference in product? I mean, there is a subset of hair care products designed specifically for the type of hair that most African-Americans have, yes?
I also see products segregated along gender lines (shampoo, deodorant, etc.). Is this sexism?
Or is the problem here one of mere terminology, i.e. using "ethnic"? In which case, what's the more correct term?
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more power! MORE!
[Read the article: On spying, GOP senators "work together" -- with the White House]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So... Does anyone in the GOP consider that all the power they're amassing for the Executive branch is going to be held by the next Democratic president? I see three possibilities:
(1) No; they're too short-sighted or stupid, or they don't care about that far in the future because Jesus is coming back / pacemakers don't last forever / the moonbase is nearly finished;
(2) They don't plan on ever letting another party control the presidency (thanks Diebold!);
(3) Both parties are really working together, so it doesn't matter.
Can anyone think of other options?
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Sexism?
[Read the article: Allen on race, Webb on women]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Webb's gender problem? Writings about women in the military, including a 1979 magazine article, titled "Women Can't Fight," in which he called a Naval Academy dorm housing 4,000 men and 300 women "a horny woman's dream."
This is an odd choice of quote to use to illustrate sexism, because taken out of context -- read on the surface -- it's logically true. A gender ratio of nearly 1:50, in a stressful program populated mostly by young people, is of course going to be appealing to "horny" people of the underrepresented gender.
Is it sexist because it's inappropriate to think that woman can be "horny" too?
Is it sexist because it suggests that women in military school might be interested in sex?
Or is it sexist because it's used to support the argument that "women can't fight"? Since the quote is taken out of context, it's hard to say how it connects to the argument.
Sure, the statement is crude, but isn't insisting that women should never be considered in this light a kind of reverse sexism?
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Now...
[Read the article: Poll: Majority of Iraqis approve of attacks on U.S. troops]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...is there some way this can be blamed on the Democrats..?
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"lock'em up"?
[Read the article: The Fix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]this is public pedophilia...
Feds...social services...Christians....lets make an example of this pre-Foley in training. Take their child and lock'em both up.
Oh please, just calm down.
It's not pedophilia and it's not comparable to Foley's case. If they live in a state which has Romeo and Juliet provisions, it's not even statutory rape.
Sure, it's stupid and irresponsible on their parts, but locking them both up -- including the girl, really? -- is a thuggish response.
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"the right leadership"
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Osama already knows that, with the right leadership in place, it's easy to strike at our country. He found that out on 9/11.
How nice of Santorum to point this out for us.