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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
RKent
Published Letters: 65 Editor's Choice: 1
I ask Thompson why this battle matters so much to him. He pauses, putting his hands together as if in prayer. "If you are nothing but an accident of nature, then nothing you do is dependent on objective truth," he says. "You can set your own rules. There are no set moral codes."
What do rules have to do with whether this universe and its life forms were the result of evolution or a Big Man in the Sky? Religious right nuts set their own rules all the time, i.e., Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. Thompson doesn't believe in intelligent design, he believes in authoritarianism.
"That's why, even if 100 million scientists say we are unplanned, that we're just purposeless beings in this universe, the general population won't buy it. And neither will I."
What does being unplanned have to do with having a purpose? I've never heard any scientist make this claim.
I believe that I have a purpose, but I also believe in evolution, not creationism and not "intelligent design."
While I believe that Sidney Blumenthal is an excellent commentator, it is incredulous to me that he thinks that Prescott Bush was a moderate Republican, when it's been established over and over that that man financed the Nazis. I also find it incredulous that he thinks that the moderate, principled Republicans are now gone from the party due to Bush's recklessness. The Republicans have been purging moderates themselves from their own party for the past three decades. And without Junior's help they've been pursuing policies that are unintelligent, illogical, arrogant and harmful.
The Republicans have destroyed themselves through their own hubris, and I believe that even if they had found someone who gave all appearances of being intelligent and responsible for the highest office in the nation, most citizens of this country would still have seen the worthlessness of Republican policies. With Junior in charge, we're seeing it sooner when we still might have a chance to avert the disasters that await us if this man and his cabal remain in power and their policies take full, undiluted effect.
Norquist comments, "Alito is one of seven or eight Bo Derek 10s that were out there, for the purposes of judicial philosophy."
Why is Norquist ever asked by anyone in the news media for his comments on anything? A man who compares a Supreme court nominee to a vapid, plastic movie star is anything but well. Will Alito's "fair" decisions be wrapped in a bikini top?
Robert
In response to wlmaroney's criticism, "What'll it take for the whores of the Washington press corps to wake up to the fact that this guy is a callous s.o.b. frat boy who uses people..."
They won't because the whores of the Washington press corps are the same as Bush, callous s.o.b. frat boys. I would also add that they don't have the integrity or the honesty to admit their own gullibility and their own superficiality.
Robert
I can only echo what the others have said here. Bush, Rove and the other thugs in this vile administration and vile party have shown no respect for the poor, the disadvantaged, minorities, scientists, thinkers, artists, liberals or peaceful activists.
Talking about "disrespect" is not going to save your ass when you're the next one who's going to be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail.
Robert
"And don't wonder why he hasn't helped you when problems begin, if they begin. I'm not saying they will, but if they do, just remember, you just voted God out of your city."
Well, Pat, problems could begin, if they begin, in any city or state. Hurricanes could happen in Florida! Tornadoes could happen in the Midwest! Earthquakes could happen in California! I'm not saying they will, but if they do, we should remember (Robertson fills in the rest of the sentence).
Does anyone know where this insane idea originated that if there's a natural disaster it must be because of an angry deity?
Wouldn't it be refreshing to see our President shed even one tear for the over 2,000 young men and women who have died for his misguided mission, and wouldn't today have been the perfect day to do it?
The only way Bush will ever cry over those young men and women is if Rove uses a quart of Visine to induce fake tears in order to boost Bush's sensitivity quotient.
I don't remember how I first heard about Salon, but I now visit it every day and I always find something new to expand and amplify my viewpoints. It clearly beats the Corporate Mainstream News Media in finding out what the facts are instead of repeating bogus talking points that are disseminated by the neo-conservatives and the White House.
Table Talk is also a great feature. I've exchanged ideas and comments with very intelligent, very well informed, very cultured, and very funny people.
May you keep going another 10 years.
Citing Michael Moore? Jeez, what's next? Accusing those of us who oppose the war of being communists?
I certainly won't cancel my subscription over this article. I do like it better, however, when Salon publishes interviews with actors and other creative artists who have interesting, intelligent things to say, like the interviews you had with John Cusack and George Clooney. Now if you did an interview with Jennifer Aniston,like the ones with Cusack and Clooney, and she had some intelligent, insightful perspectives on life and the world we live in, then that would be interesting. But this article simply wasn't.
As for her alleged appeal, I don't hate her, but I'm not a fan either. I think she's pretty, but there are a lot of women who are better-looking. I also think that she's a good actress, but she's not a very good actress or a great one, and she simply doesn't deserve all this attention.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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