Letters to the Editor
swilldog
Published Letters: 186 Editor's Choice: 20
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why does it have to be a binary choice?
[Read the article: Is thyroid disease the new hysteria?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Women need to dump the psychobabble and do ____."
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZT.
Why does it have to be a choice between X or Y with friggin' everything in our culture? Can't we do X and Y, western medicine and some form of introspection?
Granted, New Age, "Secret"-y stuff isn't for everyone. But is there anything intrinsically bad with some self examination about the choices we've made throughout our lives? Is it completely beyond the pale to consider that our behavior and mentality might contribute to our overall health? Just about everyone is willing to buy in to the notion that stress (and how we react to it) affects our health. But from all appearances that seems to be about all that mainstream Americans will accept.
Realizing that the choices we've made in our lives (including diet and exercise, of course!) could have had an adverse affect on our health is NOT a "blame the victim" mentality -- that is, unless we refuse to learn from those mistakes.
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dane cook
[Read the article: "Dan in Real Life"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Okay, we get it. He's overhyped and undertalented for the roles he's getting.
But slapping him upside the head with an antichrist analogy? Methinks thou doth protest too much.
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@ Froggy
[Read the article: Adoption and abortion: Apples and blue]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What the religious right can't get their heads around is that People Have Sex.
It's that simple. People have sex. Whether it's right, wrong, good, bad, illicit, within marriage, outside marriage, in the back seat of a car, in a college dorm room, or in a boring suburban bedroom. It happens everywhere, all the time, all over the place.
Yes, but you forget the other part of their mentality:
If you have sex and get pregnant, you must suffer the consequences.
One of the things a lot of us "normal" folks forget about the Fundy Right is that one of the cornerstones of their belief system is Punishment.
Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin, and LOOOOOOOOOVE feeling superior when others suffer as the result of their own misdeeds.
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raw sewage?
[Read the article: Disposable diaper diesel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If diapers are a viable source of, errr... feedstock (ew!), wouldn't raw sewage from water treatment also serve the same purpose, in much greater supply, and already in a conveniently collected location? Or is the plastic from the diapers a needed component?
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bwahahahahaha
[Read the article: Are you part of Ron Paul's botnet?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Reason #387 as to why Ron Paul (bless his earnest heart) should not be taken seriously: His ardent supporters have no sense of irony and display an utter inability to recognize satire.
I am grateful that Ron Paul and his merry band of True Believers are out there, don't get me wrong. We need a voice for the conservative libertarian movement out there to keep these neocon nutjobs in line. We all benefit from his anti-war rhetoric, simply because it's coming from the right. The corporate MSM will not allow a left- or center-leaning candidate get airtime about the military-industrial complex and notions of social liberty without painting him/her as a nutjob. But a just this side of loony Libertarian? Well, that's just corporate-friendly enough to allow the message to get out there.
Think about it, y'all: Diminishing the federal control of our marketplace and passing that on to the states is just about the best thing you could possibly do to enable the final phases of the corporate takeover of our society.
The federal bureacracy has enough intertia and consolidated power to pose a threat to corporate power. But the states? They're cheap. Pennies on the dollar compared to Uncle Sam. Hell, the chances are pretty good that they'll fight amongst themselves for the right to lose money to corporate interests.
Granted, there are no easy or apparent solutions to the mess we've gotten ourselves into. But y'all are barking up the wrong tree.
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Paul and corporate power
[Read the article: The Ron Paul phenomenon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I posted this on the "How the World Works" boards a few days ago, and thought it could use some extra daylight given the activity here in this thread:
I am grateful that Ron Paul and his merry band of True Believers are out there, don't get me wrong. We need a voice for the conservative libertarian movement out there to keep these neocon nutjobs in line. We all benefit from his anti-war rhetoric, simply because it's coming from the right. The corporate MSM will not allow a left- or center-leaning candidate get airtime about the military-industrial complex and notions of social liberty without painting him/her as a nutjob. But a just this side of loony Libertarian? Well, that's just corporate-friendly enough to allow the message to get out there.
Think about it, y'all: Diminishing the federal control of our marketplace and passing that on to the states is just about the best thing you could possibly do to enable the final phases of the corporate takeover of our society.
The federal bureacracy has enough intertia and consolidated power to pose a threat to corporate power. But the states? They're cheap. Pennies on the dollar compared to Uncle Sam. Hell, the chances are pretty good that they'll fight amongst themselves for the right to lose money to corporate interests.
Granted, there are no easy or apparent solutions to the mess we've gotten ourselves into. But y'all are barking up the wrong tree.If the Libertarian me-firsters out there resent Federal intrusion in their lives, just wait until the Darwinian Nightmare of Paul's Dream Confederacy, where corporations no longer influence and corrupt our system of government -- they'll own it lock, stock, and barrel. Freedom only if you can afford it, cuz there's money to be made, kiddos!
But at least he's standing up for his principles, eh?