Letters to the Editor
brandon.patrick
Published Letters: 12 Editor's Choice: 1
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Ironically
[Read the article: Inside the Creation Museum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Creationists, by denying their - god-given maybe? - reason in order to sidle up to nonsense peddled by mollycoddling, parasitic charlatans like Ham, more fully embrace the so-called "worldly" mindset of "If it feels good it can't be wrong" than any hedonist this side of Jerry Springer and the real world. For them, the Bible "feels good" damn the evidence "it must be right".
I, for one, would rather burn in hell, than kowtow to some sadistic deity with a penchant for voyeuristic punishments, and such sardonic ironies like filling our world with every indication that it is billions of years old, while secretly making the right choice a moral vaccuum of obesiance to those, like Ham, who least exemplify the more admirable traits of mankind.
This "museum" this public obscenity, this monolithic paean to misogyny, irrationality, fascist morality, this a-historical hodge-podge of wishful thinking, slander, meant to deliberately mislead children or, reinforce the misbegotten lies of their equally ill-informed parents - why, I'd sooner travel to the House on the Rock and pay homage to the 200+ foot fiberglass leviathan than pay one red cent to this, frankly, evil endeavor.
There is no more evil act than that of twisting the minds of children and filling them with lies, save that of reinforcing the subtle arrogance and priggishness of their parents, emboldening the hoi polloi to greater political, moral, and intellectual violence.
I encourage you all not to visit this place. Even for kicks. Even out of curiosity. With one hand they take your money; with the other they curse you. Why? Because, these stories feel good, so they must be right!
Sick. A national embarrassment. A generational canker. A sign of the debasement of the collective American mind and civic culture.
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M.C. Hammer, Vanilla Ice, Technotronic...
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My 12th year comprised the mass culture debuts for all of these. Please draw your own conclusions.
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Squirrel is delicious
[Read the article: Adventures in snail hunting]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you're in a residential area, and you don't think that you can get away with concealing the report of a .22. Get a nice, air-powered pellet rifle. Those tree rats are delicious. Eat them. Really, they want you to eat them. They would let you eat them, if they could, but it's against the rules. You must hunt them. Then cook them. Then eat their delicious, candied insides.
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The fact that we get married at all...
[Read the article: Asking Dad for her hand in marriage ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is a performance of a social transaction inextricably bound up in ideas of family, wealth, and the transfer or pooling of allegiances, and legal alliances.
It's a rather silly objection to make, then, to single out one tortilla from the whole tamale as being the particularly retrograde aspect. It's all retrograde. You can't have tradition without the superannuated?
Regardless of ideas of male and female indepedence from male, white, corporate oppression or whatever, when people choose to marry, they are essentially marrying into a whole pool of kin-relationships. Asking or not asking is irrelevant. It's a convention that nods at the soon-to-be new fact of "relatedness". How you sidestep the issue of kinship in updating marriage so it passes the sniff test imposed by the mavens of modernity is beyond me - go ask the dadaists, I suppose.
Marriage isn't a requirement for happiness. Entering marriage creates a legal obligation steeped in centuries of jurisprudence and tradition, some of it amenable to modern thought, lots of it repellant.
Don't like marriage? Don't enter it. Don't support it. Don't privilege it. I'm not a big fan, myself. But, it's just sort of dumb, this idea that marriage can be transformed into some kind of "safe" contract that doesn't harm anyone. You'd just as well attempt a transformation of foot-binding or clitoral circumcision for all the success you'll have in that.
Marriage is necessarily stodgy, limited, claustrophobic, and dangerous for women and men both.
What better way to overcome it, than to leave it behind in the dustbin.
I'm not telling Cinderella she can't have her crystal carriage, but... well, I am. All I'm saying is that if you want to play sock-puppets with the sexist conventions of the past, eventually your hands are going to smell like feet. Dirty feet. Sweaty. Dirty. Feet.
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Huge Tracts of Land
[Read the article: Asking Dad for her hand in marriage ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You kids these days and your sine manu expectation of a dowry. Instant gratification. Consider yourself lucky you weren't on the hook for the bride-price and a confarreatio