Letters to the Editor
Electro Robot
Published Letters: 1114 Editor's Choice: 9
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And Jonathan Swift WAS Irish
[Read the article: Can Stephen Colbert save America?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Which makes "A Modest Proposal" the angriest prose in the English language, ever. You see there's a difference between poking fun at your leaders and making them look a little stupider than they are, and real satire, the angry dark stuff burnished and hardened by rage and disappointment. Good satire makes you squirm and look for the exits.
In John Milton's time, writers were executed for going a little too far. That's why Areopagitica is such a monument and he and John Dryden were exiled, imprisoned or lavished with wealth depending on who was in power. Today's crop pales in comparison to guys like Doug Stanhope or the older generation of Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce etc.
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Amateur Fugu Chef
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Would be my choice. Take a bunch of people from other reality shows and set them loose on becoming the next top Fugu Chef. Make sure they spend as much time drunk and angry beforehand. Then watch them spazz out and die on camera as their respiratory system shuts down.
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They will all crash land on an Island
[Read the article: Beyond belief]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Where Polar bear cylons live with the cast of Heroes.
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Nice to see Democrats agree with Republicans of ten years ago
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That Hillary Clinton is Charles Manson, the Antichrist, a serial baby eater, and crack, all rolled into one. At least most of you can cling to that. It looks like President Obama's term will be at least as irrationally hate filled and partisan as all the prior ones.
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What's curious is who covers what
[Read the article: The U.S. establishment media in a nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Most of the MSM coverage of Obama has not been what he said, it's been what others in the MSM talk about what he said.
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Obama can make you climax
[Read the article: Getting it on for science]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Remotely, from thousands of miles away just by thinking about you.
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Obama will outlaw bad dreams
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He will criminalize anxiety itself.
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So in 2012 will the Democrats run a
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A half Native American Lesbian in a wheelchair? Who can top that?
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I saw Obama split an arrow
[Read the article: The Associated Press fails to reveal Mukasey's favorite color]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]With another arrow. Blindfolded.
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karenfinan
[Read the article: Can Stephen Colbert save America?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jon Stewart has NO reporters. It's a comedy show. You DID get the memo, yes?
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So in 2012 will the Dems run a homeless person for President
[Read the article: Why did Clinton wait to release her tax return?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I mean only the poor are noble, I guess.
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Well that's fine if you live in Norway and the government is the largest part of the GDP
[Read the article: "The next time we have Black Monday"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In a very high tax country like Norway, they take from the shareholders and give back to the shareholders more or less. We don't have that kind of equation. Write down to zero and letting them fail evaporates several hundred billion in capital that can't be made up, unless you're the one proposing we tax everyone accordingly. Me? I'd resist having the government step in to dictate what my investment is worth (0) and then tax me to pay for it.
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If you get all your info from the Daily Show
[Read the article: Can Stephen Colbert save America?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that's like reading all your information exclusively from Salon. Maybe not qualitatively but it's close to the same thing.
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Mowhawk Asian Helper dude
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah I'll remind myself to take this seriously.
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You should worry about the demagogues you create
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It rarely ends the way you expected and occasionally ends very badly.
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In other words things change
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now the key is to own income generating property for the tax benefits. I know this because I do.
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We'd kill ourselves smelting that much silicon
[Read the article: Ask Pablo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So it's a win win.
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BTW the 250,000 figure comes from, wait for it.....wait for it
[Read the article: How "Slaughterhouse Five" was born]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]David Irving of Holocaust denying fame. In truth if you trace back the barbarity committed upon the poor Germans, all the stories, facts and figures lead back to David Irving. Isn't history fun?
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And congrats on the new gig @ GHG
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]sounds interesting.
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Can we agree that sunshine blasts from Obama's ass and just move on?
[Read the article: Barack Obama in suspended animation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Because I really want to see a little of this Sun-God Worship destroy the infidels and heretics in the GOP when the time comes. In case you haven't noticed, your enemy is John McCain who is openly running as Bush's third term. And a quiet enemy is a dangerous enemy. So when you're done pretending you're Chris Matthews and wang smashing Hillary in the face, let me know.
Otherwise it's going to go down like George McGovern II. Remember they thought that being a cult would guarantee a win for the far left too.
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Well we DID nuke the WRONG country
[Read the article: How "Slaughterhouse Five" was born]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Kind of a shame, really.
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Yes fine, Hillary is the Devil dipped in dead babies.
[Read the article: Barack Obama in suspended animation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now can you please pull your collective heads out of your asses and proceed to fight the GOP? Or hasn't your OCD meds kicked in yet? Yes yes, you'll get the last word, Jesus has Obama on speed dial. Fine. Women all want to bang him, men want to be him. Now move on.
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Don't worry WES
[Read the article: Vacation, all I ever wanted]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anything that actually expresses an informed opinion to say nothing of anything that dare not tow the party line will be reorganized away.
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I'm sure someone would protest the harm to scorpions
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's a lose lose scenario in America. No matter what you do you'll wind up in court hamstrung by someone. Sure, carpet the desert with solar cells. Then the anti defacing the desert beauty people pop up. And if you have to fence off the arrays then the pro illegal alien people pop up. And so on. I say we just chuck the whole idea in the trash. Let's go back to the middle ages.
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I picture
[Read the article: My mother-in-law put a curse on us and spat in my husband's face]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]An 80 year old crone in a black dress and big mole on her face. The woman everyone's met who's lived in the US for 53 years and still can't speak a word of English. Terrified of lightswitches but she cranks the TV up to top volume and tells her kids she wants to return home to Greece, to die. Sunday is a 12 course meal you've been going to for 20 years. Except she doesn't eat with the rest of the family. She eats in the kitchen, alone.
I say poison her.
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FilthyHarry
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So if you buy a car that goes 132mph, you wreck it and take out a busload of orphans, it's BMW's fault?