Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 156 Editor's Choice: 40
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This guy is no "legal sage"
[Read the article: The Internet is making us stupid]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"In contrast, in 2000 I had high hopes for President Bush. I thought he could be a very good president."
Right there, his credibility is shot. Does he explain on what basis, other than possibly the "I'd like to have a beer with him" phenomenon, he formed this opinion? Aren't academics supposed to provide concrete arguments for their theories?
This guy claims he supports Obama because he eschews the echo chamber, yet Bush, throughout his political life, has surrounded himself with nothing but Kool-Aid drinkers -- and named the biggest of them all as his vice presidential nominee. He rails against the Karl Rove factor, but Rove was there from the beginning, and had already proven himself to be a pernicious, even criminal element in politics by the time Bush's first election rolled around.
It must be nice to be able to view all of politics as a humongous poli-sci experiment, and to gloss over and ignore all of your own misjudgments. Unfortunately, it's the less fortunate who have to live with the consequences of your smug, insular little games.
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Think of how many more productive hours this country could log...
[Read the article: Working women's "absence culture"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...if EVERYONE, regardless of gender, stayed home when they were sick. How many colds/flus/etc. have people caught from copy machines, phones, handshakes, etc.? How many times have you sat next to a coughing, spewing colleague in a meeting, or sat next to someone similarly pneumatic on the subway, and thought, Jeez, why didn't you just STAY HOME?!?
The reason more women than men take this sensible approach is, I suspect, twofold: women are, over all, less self-inflated, and they generally have less high-powered jobs. The former is great, the latter not so much. But I venture to say that most people have caught a lot more colds and flu bugs from their male colleagues than from their female ones -- and that means a direct hit to overall productivity. So while you may look like more of a "team player" when you show up sick, you generally drag the whole team down.
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Don't look now, but it's your nun from the second grade
[Read the article: We'll take that as a "no"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Pelosi is "restating the differentiation between ourselves and the president of the United States," but giving him essentially everything he wants. Senate Democrats "expressed their displeasure" over Mukasey, but still sent his nomination to the floor and did not filibuster against it, even though they had the votes.
Meanwhile, out in the real world, Bush's "strong disapproval" rating is a whoppping 50%.
The American people voted the Democrats in so they could stand up to this president, end the war, and reclaim our country. Little did they know that what they'd end up with was Sister Mary Wristslap, who endlessly expresses how disappointed she is in you, while you continue to muck around with your friends in the back of the classroom.
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My husband
[Read the article: Sexiest Man Living 2007]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry, I couldn't resist. And "sexiest man" has no inherent celebrity qualification attached.
He has Olbermann's political sensibilities and sense of humor without the overweening ego. (Sorry, I love Keith, but if there were a drinking game where you had to take a shot every time he made a self-congratulatory comment, we'd all have cirrhosis by now.)
He's absolutely adorable, and incredibly sexy, and completely clueless about it.
He is totally goofy about our dog, and plays with him on the floor like a six-year-old.
He is conscientious and thoughtful without a whiff of pomp or piety.
He is insanely smart but never show-offy.
My friends call him "the gold standard," and the women in his office love him.
The guys do, too.
Okay, and so do kids and dogs.
He doesn't take any crap, but doesn't make many enemies, either.
He buys me a little gift a day for the month of my birthday. (The first year he did this, when we'd just started going out, he bought me a lot of soaps, which made me wonder if he was trying to tell me something. But it was just the guy-think "women like soaps" thing.)
He still roots for the Detroit Lions, the team he grew up with, who have pretty much never won anything. Ditto the Tigers, who have won once. And he still loves screw-ups like Denny McClain.
He defends me to his mother. (He was her late-in-life "miracle baby," and she still thinks he's a little too young to be married, at 47.)
The first thing he bought for our house was a Sears workbench, like his dad had.
After 14 years, I still grab him every chance I get.
And mostly for good (and sometimes for ill!), he still really drives me mad.
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Clinton's answer to the diamonds/pearls question...
[Read the article: What you missed while watching "Project Runway"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...should have been everybody's answer to the national security/human rights question:
"I want both."
Only an ill-informed, "gotcha"-driven moderator would have tried to make candidates choose between the two, and only an incompetent President would ever HAVE to choose between the two.
The candidates have to learn to shoot down some of these idiotic questions right from the jump, rather than reflexively answering them. Considering the contempt in which many Democrats hold the mainstream media, they could score major points with a takedown of Blitzer, Russert, et al.
And speaking of Blitzer, wouldn't you think there would be some rule in the universe that if you're that boring, you'd have to be, oh, I don't know, good at your job?
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A coupla things in the story are true:
[Read the article: News flash: Giuliani running on 9/11]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"his supporters have long boasted about his performance after the attacks." Yes, it was a performance, and yes, it wasn't until AFTER the attacks that he gave any thought whatsoever to terrorism or emergency response systems.
As for the rest of the story, well, it's in the New York Post. And we all know what the Post is worth. That and $9.11 will get you into a Rudy fundraiser.