Letters to the Editor
Electro Robot
Published Letters: 1115 Editor's Choice: 9
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LWM
[Read the article: Bill Kristol, great man of sacrifice, on the duties of Passover]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When you get all political during liturgy you should expect to get shouted down. Likewise if the Rabbi started carrying on about Darfur or the election, that too would have been entirely inappropriate. Sorry, but it is. You folks have endless opportunities to propagate your agenda nearly anywhere else at any time. Perhaps you need to put boundaries around that sometimes.
I've seen Rabbis have sermons that had zero to do with Days of Awe from everything having to do with their vacation to some concert they went to. This is why Rabbis are contractual employees of the shul, So you can fire them.
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what makes you think anything is being 'sustained'
[Read the article: Malthus is in the air]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Malthus said generally speaking in any closed system that the population would outstrip the capacity of that population to feed itself. Which is more or less the same thing Marx said about diminishing returns. Neither of them is entirely right or wrong. Why? Because there are big pieces of the world which NEVER had the ability to feed themselves or, like in the massively populous countries like Egypt, lost the ability to feed themselves decades ago.
But what does this mean? It means Egypt and all the Egypts do the best they can to buy what food they need. Sometimes it works, like in Egypt, sometimes it does not, like in Zimbabwe or North Korea. But the 'production problem' as it were is really an allocation problem born of politics. In fact in much of Africa e.g Sudan, Somlia, Uganda, Congo, food is a weapon of war.
If you look at it rationally it's actually the countries that have no where reached their absolute carrying capacity that do the absolutely worst job feeding their own people. The countries that already outstripped their ability to feed themselves have for the most part attempted to figure out how to overcome that problem.
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yeah but no
[Read the article: McCain's gassy tax relief]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Trust fund socialists in the US could easily propose $10/gal gas tax if they liked. The problem is, our governments at the state and local let alone the Federal level aren't designed to take advantage of that to accomplish anything. They'd piss it away on SWAT teams and 40 lane highways and the War on Drugs. Or just outright steal it. First you need some reliable way of doing something with the funding stream. Assuming of course you want to and you're not one of those retarded apocalyptic types who just want to see people suffer because it's good for mother earth.
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Why would the #1 or #2 rice EXPORTER want to conserve?
[Read the article: Malthus is in the air]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thailand is one of the world's biggest rice exporters. What sane person would hold back a big piece of their crop which they already don't need for domestic consumption, from export in times of rising prices?
It sounds like Thailand wants to drive the prices even higher then dump their crop on the market in order to crush other exporters like Viet Nam.
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Steve is not happy
[Read the article: Dilbert's new mash-up site lets you add your own punch line]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFE2CCfAP1o
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Excellent
[Read the article: Bill Kristol, great man of sacrifice, on the duties of Passover]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A celebration of Pesach turns of course into a wild Jew hating piling on. Things are working exactly as planned Glenn, good jorb. By one measure, hatespeech is when whatever you say is always negative - all the time. Were there any other concept here at Salon (Gary K, Glenn G and so on) one could at least argue that it's not hate speech. But when it's 100% all the time a goat rodeo like this, any sane person would call it hate speech.
Excellent.
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I haven't confused anything
[Read the article: Malthus is in the air]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Want and cant are the same thing. Unless you feel people can eat slogans.
And no, with Egypt it lost the ability to fend for itself in the mid 60's about 90% of all Egyptians live within 10 miles of the Nile. And all the tillable land is being eaten up by urban sprawl.
Please stop chanting slogans at me.
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C.O. JONES
[Read the article: Bill Kristol, great man of sacrifice, on the duties of Passover]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No actually you're wrong about that. But I can understand it. You see you and people like you like HRH are utterly incapable of ever understanding or admitting that a SINGLE person would ever deviate in any way from what you believe. So if TWO do, it must be some evil Jewspiracy.
And HRH, try writing in complete sentences instead of endless self referential post ironic irony. How old ARE you? 20?
But please carry on. I like to watch idiots make idiot noises to one another. It amuses me. (It's still hate speech though).
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Go over to Glenn's column
[Read the article: The haunting of the Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you want to see the baggage that the Dems will have to lug around.
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Well what would you expect from this column
[Read the article: Old, fat, male ... and bulimic?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It can barely contain its hate, disdain and rage anymore. We're about 6 weeks from calling for global male extermination here.
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Dear me, Andrew
[Read the article: The vile state of Internet discourse knows no borders]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As a white(ish) male (formerly) Orthodox Jew I have to say you know jack shit about online abuse. the internet is a mob and places like Salon are the lunch table of people who think they're a lot more indie than they really are. But thank the Fat Lord Baby Che that they have their anger, their hate, their insults, threats and general Internet tough guy-ness. Without that, they'd just be pussies, slackers and losers.
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In the word of Patton Oswalt
[Read the article: "There needs to be a citizens revolt"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I know, we'll make the world's biggest finger painting and that will end the war.
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No not really
[Read the article: Does Hillary Clinton remind you of your mom?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My mom is an ex ballerina who eventually became a cop. Of course I don't think anyone would want to screw with my mom either, she'd probably cold cock you.
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I'm waiting
[Read the article: Dawning of the age of the Asian PC]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For the Salon commenter to type on their computer that computers for Asians, is the Devil.
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By the by
[Read the article: McCain's gassy tax relief]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In countries where the price of gasoline would be considered obscene, I've never noticed that it altered in any way the way people drive or the amount they drive. Tooling around France years ago when the gasoline was the equivalent of $4.85/gal we all drove well over the 140kph limit on the A routes. And everyone drove A LOT. If you imagine that expensive gas will crimp people's life style you have to make it virtually UNaffordable before that will happen. So until you're prepared to drive the country right back into the 18th century you'd better reconcile yourselves to the fact that people will drive the way they drive, regardless. The only other alternative is to flat out ration it.