Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 29
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it's just a cartoon
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As Riggo would say "lighten up Gary baby."
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obscura demais
[Read the article: "Bush's policies are accelerating climate change"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's close to midnight here in DC and the only entertainment being offered is here on Salon where lunatics like tom from indiana and curmudgeon2 rant on and on and on. It seems to me that the biggest problem facing humanity on this planet isn't global warming or the war in Iraq or the bumbling, fumbling, corrupt, and excruciatingly arrogant Bush administration, but the burgeoning absence of a real dialogue amongst those of us who presently inhabit this ailing planet and hope futilely to do so for centuries to come. I read too much he said she said, too much obscure opinionating from the extremes, too much reference to unsubstantiated fact, too much anger, too much of self medication with religion and politics, and way too little of ideas and proposals and solutions. Stop listening to the incessant bickering being presented as thoughtful opinion by Greenwald and Walsh and ease up you members of the lunatic fringe and listen for something new and, possibly, enlightening. Come on Kamiya, get back to some serious writing, you're one of the few here who can do it. As I fade away...lost...lonely...and forever irrelevant...back making my contribution to the blurr.
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second northern bluto
[Read the article: Imperial presidency declared null and void]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's all just whispering in the back room. Figure out how to tell it to the workingman driving his pickup to work at 5am. Figure out how to tell it to the frazzeled commuters who spend 4 hours on the road and 8 hours at work everyday and never listen to the news unless there is an "event" that causes stir enough to get them to sit in front of their tv at 10 pm instead of reading to their children. The masters of war have conjured up the ultimate horror and broadcast dramatic footage of terrorists in Russian schools. They fly their warplanes low over American cities every day to remind us of the terror in the skies. They conspire to control our passions by manipulating the music and the entertainment industries. They exploit every of our weaknesses to harness we weary citizens into the toil that only they can purportedly understand or define. I see a lot of wimp journalists making big profit by writing in this obscure media and I hear a lot of anonymous braying from the cowards who write in this select blogoshere, but like bluto says, "nothing happens". Salon wants to find a a slip of the tongue by a Republican and to put it into a headline or work the profitable political gossip angle, or to feed the latest scandolous thinking to the liberal masses who huddle together on this site grimacing and shrugging and my god, not believing that anyone could see things that they might not. Meanwhile the fascist machine just rolls along, sending our children to war and barely mourning them when they "come home in a box," forgetting them as they try to adjust to their new limblessness, denying them therapy as they must have already been crazy to have agreed (volunteered) to go off to war in the first place. It isn't the trauma of the roadside bomb that is keeping them up at night, it's thoughts of mom and dad back in indiana on that lonely farm where they grew up. Mom and Dad should foot the bill.
I'm just a guy who occasionally reads this blather on the internet and I have no power to inform or influence outside of the small social realm in which I live so I wonder, who in the media, who with some influence, will step out of the all too profitable realm of the "established liberal media" and try to get to the guy in the pick up truck. I see too many George Stephanopolous's out there and I'm sick.
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never
[Read the article: The scary Cheney news keeps coming]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]call your torturer a stooge. You may not be afraid enough yet.
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was 9/11 an attack on the Bush family?
[Read the article: Rudy can fail]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't read much of the news really and I don't have time for blogs but somehow, who knows how, I find myself with enough data to form wild ass opinions. My apologies to those who can keep up with, categorize, analyze, and make sense of "the facts."
It seems that Bill Lawton's (horrible book written by a guy who must never have spent an hour with a real child), most pressing desire was to rid Saudi Arabia of it's vulturous American presence. And he seems to have been interested in a middle east solution that would have allowed the Palestinian people to be categorized politically as homo sapien sapien. When the Bush machine (so handholdingly connected to the Saudi kingdom) was "elected" he must have thought the time was right. Gore, as Clinton did, might have listened to the frack and the fray of an occasional embassy bombing and responded accordingly, or as Bill Lawton (the writer seems to think himself so attuned to the big ideas that he can forget about the human character)would have wanted him to respond. Bush, the newcomer to the international stage and a man who would act out, to perfection, all of the neurotic weaknesses of the big powerful West, was the perfect target, but he needed a bigger bang like 9/11.
In some ways the hysterical right may be right. The character of the man we elect to be our next president could be a factor in the "war on terror" to come.