Letters to the Editor
Presumptuous Insect
Published Letters: 162 Editor's Choice: 5
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had enough, I feel your pain.
[Read the article: Condi Rice never looks back]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I, too, was stunned that any educated author could enter into this project of writing about Condi's life without having an inkling that she is a liar of the highest (er, lowest) order.
I have never seen her speak--defending the indefensible, blindly parroting her vicious cohorts, or blatantly and chirpily lying to the Senate--without experiencing the same revulsion that Bush, Cheney, and all those other bastards create in me.
had_enough, I have been paying attention all this time, as I am sure were many of us here. I was nearly assaulted at a peace sit-in when a large burly college student screamed in my face that "they were fighting over there" while I was "sitting on my ass." I am sure I would have been assaulted if I had asked him why, if he was so passionate about it, he wasn't there himself. I mention this because I think that Condi and the Bushies very cynically have used fear, in many many ways, to whip up rage against those people who dared to disagree with them.
It is disheartening indeed to see that it has taken this long for some of the truth to come out, and even more disheartening to think how easily the majority can be completely deceived in the future, again and again. Goebbel's formula works, as these scoundrels know.
But it seems that Condi Rice will never look closely at the dark truth of things. People like that scare the shit out of me.
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Vive le Maher!!
[Read the article: "Hillary equals France"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you, Bill. This anti-French thing is so trite, so childish, so dumbfoundingly anti-intellectual that you cannot make these kinds of comments enough.
Politicians who are stuck on such tactics appeal to the basest motives of the most ignorant voters.
But I suppose they always have to have someone to merde on in order to create a faux unity, those stupid poulet-faucons.
To each anti-French Republican candidate, and Cheney, and Rumsfeld, and the veritable multitude of jackasses, I say: "T'est qu'une sale pute qui se met des godes et du poulet dans le cul."
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Comedy, people.
[Read the article: "Hillary equals France"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I appreciate the criticisms, but let's not go overboard, hmmm? Remember that this piece was written to be delivered in front of a live audience for laughs, and within a brief space of time. Do you really think Bill should have paused when mentioning French Enlightenment to say, "Oh, and then there's Locke, of course, and this guy from here, and that guy from there, and let's not forget how exactly the influences flowed across the Channel and up the hill and across the river, et cetera, et cetera [/Yul Brynner].
That would have been about as funny as frikkin Richard Dreyfuss was as a panelist on Bill's show. Or Christopher Hitchens. Or Seth Green. Or Harry Belafonte. You know what I'm taking about, babe.
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peggylipton, is there a solution?
[Read the article: Condi Rice never looks back]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Nation has an "ignore this user" function for avoiding cranks. Does anyone know if Salon has that? It doesn't look like it. Something to consider.
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and...
[Read the article: "Hillary equals France"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bill's not a fucking troll.
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He said "I get it."
[Read the article: "Sopranos" wrap-up: Uncomfortably numb]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A number of viewers at televisionwithoutpity watched with closed captioning to determine what Tony said and it was definitely "I get it."
My first impression of that moment was that Tony, looking over the vastness of the scene before him, had some kind of spiritual revelation, perhaps even some humility in the face of the incomprehensibilty of the world. Or maybe he was embracing a hopeless nihilism. We will see.
I can hardly stand the tension of watching this show.
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Weeping and laughing
[Read the article: "Sopranos" wrap-up: Uncomfortably numb]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just saw the closing scene again and watched Tony laugh and weep at the same time. It made me think of the line from Bronte: "I am hard and tough as an India-rubber ball; pervious, though, through a chink or two still...." If Tony were not "pervious" in some small way, open to redemption or the human bond, then his story wouldn't be such a wrenching tragedy. As many others have said, if we view him simply as a sociopath in order to distance him from ourselves, we ignore the element of necessity in this drama. Again and again we see there is no way out of this life; Tony is trapped within a rigid system and is doomed to a hopeless repetition. Vito's fate underpins the overdetermined nature of this kind of life. I see it as a kind of mobsters-R-us allegory. Perhaps the "I get it" is simply Tony facing the bleak fact that there are a very limited number of possible outcomes for him. He is going to die. Maybe he is starting to think about what his legacy will be?
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Indescribable
[Read the article: Gonzales' yearlong effort to block Comey's testimony]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am stunned. I just read through the testimony and Glenn's blog, barely breathing. Every day, it seems, there is some new revelation, some new affront to our fading democracy. And every time I read something like this, I say to myself, "Surely everyone will see now. Surely those who still support Bush, the war, the curtailment of civil rights, etc.--they will understand the great danger we are in and see the need to rise up from their apathy." But then it hits me--and no matter how many times this happens, the hit comes at me with all the force of a tidal wave--that even [i]this[/i] will not make any difference to the vast numbers of voters.
What will it take?
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Oh, please.
[Read the article: My sister is having an illicit affair]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You've applied those crazy Victorian masculinist notions about women from Freud here? You have got to be kidding me.
I suppose women all have a subconscious desire for penises, too. Yup, I'm just a mutilated male. I will never be whole.
By the way, to me, one of the most annoying things about being in a graduate program in lit is the absurd application of these misogynist and outdated ideas. I am really disappointed to see them here.
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Foreplay ad infinitum, ad nauseam...
[Read the article: Finale wrap-up: "Grey's Anatomy"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gah. These characters are so dull, so self-absorbed. Enough already!