Letters to the Editor
maureenodonnell
Published Letters: 578 Editor's Choice: 5
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Wearedoomed, why don't you start a protest march to demand that Colin Powell forfeit his no-doubt handsome pension?
[Read the article: How will it all end?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The biggest liar of all is the former General, Colin Powell, who lied to the WHOLE WORLD but people like you seem to shy away from that. I don't care that he's not running for President but Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney and Powell are the arch-deceivers. Telling lies to Americans is bad enough but telling untruths on an international scale is even worse. You can keep hammering away at a narrow issue but I'll still invite you to look at America's reputation because of the above unholy quorum. You can run but you can't hide - from the truth.
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"The something-or- other urgency of now" - Obama
[Read the article: Your presidential candidate: Hot or not?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who the blazes writes this condswallop? All I can think of is the urgent need to go to the bathroom or rest-room (I love euphemisms) or perhaps the Romans foresaw all of this with their "Vomitaria". It's late in the evening and I thought I'd have a look-see. Lo and behold! there they are all over the place like a veritable plague of locusts with Xrandadu Hutman showing extraordinary stamina and buzzing so loudly that I can hear him across the miles (or kilometres). I suppose this is supposed to be an earnest discussion but it's hard to take it seriously. The crud that constitutes the Drudge Report informs a breathless world that "Nancy Pelosi is leaning towards Obama". Is she drunk or what? There's also a picture of a round-faced African-American lady who seems beside herself with joy or sorrow; it's hard to tell but, frankly my dears, I couldn't give a damn because, having briefly glanced up to see what was on Sky News, I nearly keeled over when I saw long-faced (I have to be even-handed) John Kerry plugging the wonders of Obama. This the fellow who gave you Bush and cronies for four more years! I'll concede that Rove is fiendishly clever. He'd leave th Borgias far behind. Although he doesn't poison his enemies, he surely has poisoned the mood of the Democrats as they do his work for him. What a wheeze! Game, set and match to Klever Karl and I don't know if he even plays tennis.
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This wretched man, Schuster, doesn't have a good grasp of English.
[Read the article: David Shuster, scapegoat?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A pimp is a pander, a word which derives from l4th century English. In Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde", Pandar was a go-between in clandestine amours. The word was used for males who were procurers and Mr. Schuster, in his effort to be clever, is only displaying his ignorance. He is "suspnded"? Oh good, that shouldn't hurt too much and, in the meanwhile, he might do a bit of reading to fill the alarming inadequacies in his vocabulary. Maybe he's fluent in Spanish? That beautiful language is Latin-based and might prove too difficult for him.
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Through sleep-dimmed eyes, I read something about "a weird old coot in the White House" and fantasised that Camille Paglia was putting herself forward for the job.
[Read the article: Blood-and-guts politics]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From the opening paragraph of her article, with its lurid imagery of the abattoir and/or the operating theatre, I could see that Ms, Paglia's lack of subtlety has persisted throughout the years. I seem to recall seeing a picture of her in some glossy magazine about twenty years ago when the little "lady" had two burly men on both sides of her who gave the strong impression that she'd dressed them as Nubian slaves. Maybe she thought she was playing a part in "Aida" but, to the casual reader, her writing has always been mirth-provoking. That she still thinks she's relevant is sad; yhat she still longs to be "hip" is even sadder. Ther is a ruthless streak in this woman who is motivated by an overarching need which is expressed through endless reams of "Look at me or I'll scream and I'll scream". Madonna is facing fifty and working hard to keep the flame alive; at least she can dance and sing. Paglia's brief flame flickered and died a long time ago and all that's left is a melting candle which is forming grotesque shapes. I will give her this; she understands how to hate and put on a macabre show. However, it's become tiresome. Has she thought of taking up knitting?
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Maybe a snippet of poetry will elevate the tone and I'd like to dedicate it to CP
[Read the article: Blood-and-guts politics]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]""The Brook" by Tennyaon ia particularly pertinent to Camille Paglia's effervescence:
"I come from haunts of coot and heron,
I make a sudden sally
And sparkle out among the fern
To bicker down a valley
I chatter over stony ways
In little sharps and trebles
I bubble into eddying bays,
I babble on the pebbles.....
That's Ms. Paglia for you and there's really no need to get angry with her because that's what she's always relished. In the last article she wrote for Salon she was going gaga over Obama, which is a pleasure she shouldn't be denied at this stage. Her salacious speculation about the Clinton marriage was very unwholesome, nonetheless, so I suppose the best thing for the former firebrand to do is "Keep taking the tablets", that well-known medical panacea.