Letters to the Editor
cheesemonkey
Published Letters: 72
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Yuck.
[Read the article: Camille's back!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What a waste of pixels.
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Peter Birkenhead's niche on Salon - bitterness
[Read the article: Oprah's ugly secret]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Peter Birkenhead has definitely found a niche for his bitterness on Salon. As with his previous essay on being a mid-list actor, he pours an impressive amount of bile into rage against others who choose to keep going toward their dreams no matter what.
Between Birkenhead and Camille Paglia, Salon seems to be forging the left's answer to Ann Coulter.
It's not pretty.
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If Hitler were a Barbie doll...
[Read the article: Terrible hatred and anger on the left]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn Greenwald gets it exactly right -- Ann Coulter is a caricature designed to make disenfranchised and angry white men feel good about their hatred of others.
Thank you for this excellent analysis.
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Five conversations... is that more than 'never'?
[Read the article: Grilling Gonzales' fall guy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm glad the Senate Judiciary Committee went slowly on their questioning. I was having some trouble keeping track of the number of times Kyle Sampson remembered talking to Attorney General Gonzalez about the about-to-be-fired U.S. attorneys.
So, five conversations -- that's more than 'never,' right?
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Holy smoke...
[Read the article: Adult milk market]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "adult child."
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Variable rhetoric on "personal responsibility"
[Read the article: The NRA view of school shootings, in pictures]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why does the media allow the preachers of so-called "personal responsibility" off the hook when states allow guns to get into the hands of the mentally unstable?
Who will hold the states accountable when they fail, as Virginia did, to create the most basic links between background check systems so that guns will not be sold to mentally unstable people?
It is disgusting that the people who loudly insist on their "right" to bear arms go silent about their responsibilities when a disaster like the Virginia Tech shooting occurs.
Clearly the media have trained them to bury their heads in the sand (or in another dark place) until the media gets distracted by the next bright, shiny object in their path.
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Mandatory counseling and waiting periods
[Read the article: Repeal the Second Amendment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What would happen if gun buyers had to go through a 24-hour waiting period before exercising their Second Amendment right in which they were required to:
(a) undergo a mandatory one-hour counseling session about the alternatives to gun ownership;
(b) listen to lectures from gun control lobbyists on the responsibilities of gun ownership and gun safety;
(c) look at page after page of photos of the blood-soaked victims of gun violence;
(d) attend the funeral of a victim of gun violence (given our 30,000 deaths/year, this will not present a hardship).
I imagine the NRA would wage war on any elected official who even dared to suggest such a thing.
When it comes to protecting the "culture of life," the Republican Party comes down squarely against the rights of the already-born.
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Alas, there is no shame in Washington
[Read the article: The Bill Moyers documentary on our failed and barren press]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn Greenwald is absolutely spot-on in this assessment. The Moyers documentary was unflinching in its analysis of the failures of the Beltway insiders of the mainstream media.
MSM, you're doing a heckuva job.
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Why not use a signing statement instead?
[Read the article: Senate sets Iraq timetable]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When did George Bush sprout a conscience about using a signing statement to wiggle out of any provision he doesn't like in a bill?
Is his reluctance tied to getting caught doing so?
This sudden respect for legislative process strikes me as cynical.
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Meritorious ear-flapping
[Read the article: "Year of the Dog" contest: Submission No. 1]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Shumi's ear-flapping while balancing on top of a giant lavender exercise ball is surely deserving of special consideration.
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Stretching out her ambush
[Read the article: Fondling Stephen Colbert]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What made Fonda's move creepy for me was how long she went on.
The ambush was hilarious at the beginning, and had she stopped after the first minute or so, it would have been enough.
But like a drunken relative who won't relinquish the microphone after a wedding toast, and continues on weepily, she just made a fool of herself.
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So now it's all about Riza rage...
[Read the article: Wolfowitz the lover, not the fighter]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow, it's such a lucky thing we had Wolfie around to protect us from Riza rage at the World Bank.
And it only cost him $180,000 of our money, a disastrous war, and hopefully, his job.
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Gonzales: "I cannot tell a lie..."
[Read the article: McNulty, No. 2 at Justice, submits his resignation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's hard not to find Alberto Gonzales' finger-pointing at McNulty compelling: "I cannot tell a lie -- it was that guy."
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No wonder the right is imploding
[Read the article: Bashing Elizabeth Edwards]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If right wing Republicans want to be represented by someone who can't summon the decency to consider hate speech off-limit, they get the spokesperson they deserve.
This country has serious problems. Ann Coulter is not qualified to comment on them.
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The artful dodger
[Read the article: What were the pre-2005 "other intelligence activities"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's sad that the Bush Administration's definition of a good lawyer is one highly skilled in lying.
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Is this not why God invented plastic bullets?
[Read the article: A man farted in my face on the plane and I said nothing!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And why, I pray you, why did the air marshall sit idly by as this evil-doer filled the plane with his miasmic fumes?
Oh, the humanity!
This should definitely be a prime area of questioning during the YouTube Republican presidential candidates debate.
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Alberto Gonzales- professional piñata or ace ventriloquist's dummy?
[Read the article: The leak designed to save Alberto Gonzales]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You be the judge.
What this man is hoping to accomplish at this point passes all understanding.
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As much spine as a bag of spinach
[Read the article: Giving it all away]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When it comes to political courage and intellectual honesty, we can always count on Arlen Specter to lower the bar.
He proves once again that the more spineless a politician is, the more spineless he is.
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Just when I think Romney couldn't sound any dumber...
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He raises the bar.
I did not believe there was any headroom left for this, but I am ready to fault myself for a lack of imagination.
We are living in desperate times.
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The naked truth
[Read the article: Don't bogart that spotted owl]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Republicans have gone soft on spotted owls.
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Please take care when speculating about causality
[Read the article: Fatal enhancement]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There is a huge difference between causality (breast enhancement causes an increased risk of suicide) and correlation (breast enhancement and increased risk of suicide appear to go hand in hand).
This is the kind of sloppy analysis that does not help anyone understand the deeper issues.
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You won't have Nixon to kick around any more
[Read the article: Karl Rove to resign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's because Rove and his Dirty Tricks Brigade have to focus their toxic energies on the '08 presidential election.
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Self-defeating review
[Read the article: Are Democrats really so lame?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is an awfully long review of a book -- and an idea -- the writer claims to disown.
Giving this book so many "column inches" on the web seems to defeat the very purpose the reviewer seems to espouse.
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Moby Dick and Grendel costumes sure to be a big hit this year at Halloween
[Read the article: Fantasy island]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now that Karl Rove has announced his Halloween costume plans, we are sure to see a groundswell of Republican children rushing the costume aisles at Wal-Mart to dress up the same way their hero is going to.
Thanks, Karl Rove, for keeping Halloween interesting.
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It's all about timing
[Read the article: "Thank you, and God bless America"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Daily Show and The Colbert Report went on hiatus as of Thursday. Alberto Gonzales resigned on Friday.
Is it possible that Gonzales' resignation was timed to coincide with the beginning of a two-week gap in fake news coverage?