Letters to the Editor
Electro Robot
Published Letters: 1110 Editor's Choice: 9
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I tend to think that the Green Revolution would not have happened with pigshit alone
[Read the article: Is there enough pig manure to feed the world?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Because pigshit was readily available before 1955. Before then hundreds of millions of people routinely lived with famine. Hmm maybe they were using the wrong pigs. In impoverished countries where a dollar was worth something, I would have to surmise if there were effective efficient ways for farmers to survive w/o spending that dollar on chemicals they would have or at the least someone would have shown them how. But I guess that doesn't mesh with the the theory that everything under the sun is some dark plot by The Man to keep his bootheel on the throats of brown people.
(cue Soviet National Anthem)
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I don't want to think for myself
[Read the article: Stop the mommy madness]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I need the Salon readership to tell me what to do.
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400 years ago
[Read the article: Is there enough pig manure to feed the world?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You were lucky if 20% of your births made it age 30.
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Bush has said on TV he
[Read the article: How the White House lost 5 million e-mails]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Does not use email at all, zero, never.
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What divide?
[Read the article: Can Clinton heal the racial divide?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The divide concocted by bloggers who suddenly latched on to yet another meaningless non-issue? That divide?
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Race is the liberals new religion
[Read the article: Can Clinton heal the racial divide?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's not meant to be solved, it's meant to be picked over for eternity.
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I remember first hand trying to explain to people
[Read the article: How the White House lost 5 million e-mails]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]During Iran Contra, that when you 'delete' a message from the White House Office Vision mail system, it doesn't delete it. It marks it for deletion. This is why Reagan &co got caught. They 'deleted' their emails which were easily retrieved. This was actually changed after the fact, but
I believe there was a court case that determined that the executive branch couldn't do perform hard delete DoD compliant scrubs on the fly except under extraordinary circumstances.
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Don't believe everything you read in Wiki
[Read the article: The Democrats' God problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The very fact that you're having this discussion at all is ample proof there is a significant slice of the populace who believes it critical. Otherwise the Saloniks would be elected pashas of the Universe 8 years ago, but you're not, are you? Religion is as much a part of the political dialog in America as are guns and abortion. Waving your hands over your head and screaming it's not real doesn't make it go away.
No the problem is essentially political and Dems are clumsy at this issue. They can't say they are believers w/o irritating their base and they can't say they aren't because it will irritate everyone else. "I was for it before I was against it"
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These aren't technical problems, they're political and social problems
[Read the article: Farming wiser, not poorer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When Stalin liquidated the Kulaks and collectivized all farming in the Soviet union it wasn't done for agronomic reasons or because of efficiency. It was does to exterminate a self sufficient middle class for the sake of power. Likewise the apocalyptics here who suggest that everything would be paradise if we simply unwound the clock a thousand years and waited for 95% of the humans to starve, aren't suggesting that for the sake technological efficacy. They're suggesting it because they are apocalyptic extremists.
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There is still a lot of churn
[Read the article: Is the American consumer finally giving up?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It will be substitution spending. Like the $47/month I will save switching one land line to VoIP, after the $72 transition costs. Like the $70/month reduction is cell phone contracted billing as opposed to pulling the plug on it completely. Like chucking my frequently flier miles credit card for one with no annual fee ($50). So there will still be spending but it will be to replace more expensive services, not goods.
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Yeah it's a pain
[Read the article: So long, Canada]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So leave BOTH countries. Go to Uruguay. America won't be a better place to live than the wealthier countries in South America, in a generation.
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But this is Salon
[Read the article: Breaking the Democratic deadlock]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Where Ron Paul and Ned Lamont are co-presidents of Unicorn Land and Al Gore will drop from heaven at the Democratic convention and win the nomination like magic. I don't worry about what Saloniks promise.
Obama will lose in NC.
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As long as you're slinging stereotypes around
[Read the article: Breaking the Democratic deadlock]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Raleigh, Durham, Cary, RTP area has more post graduate degrees per capita than any other place in America, bar none. More then Seattle, Austin, Silicon Valley or Cambridge. Yeah we all dumb hicks. Where mah gun?
But Obama will still lose.
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squalorholla
[Read the article: Breaking the Democratic deadlock]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you for being our thought police. The revenant of the Staasi appreciates your efforts.
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Yes except it's the European UNION
[Read the article: So long, Canada]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's a confederacy of states more or less under a central government. For these and about a thousand other purposes they are not distinct countries.
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Yeah but
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The only thing dumber and more worthless than watching more than 20 minutes of ESPN is watching TV sports heads talking about the internet. You can't even make fun of this junk anymore. It's literally two fat guys in recliners talking shit to each other. They're just pissed that sites like 'With Leather' can say things that TV guys can only think.
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If either of these jokers loses to Insane in the McCain
[Read the article: Breaking the Democratic deadlock]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]then we might as well declare the monarchy and be done with it.
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Of course that greasy 30% THC Vancouver Hydro couldn't have anything to do with it?
[Read the article: So long, Canada]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Could it?
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Well Obama Blessed be he
[Read the article: Former DNC head switches allegiance]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Did pay off contributors in 2000 with several hundred thousand dollars in grants once he was elected. So you can't say there's no precedent.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-killerspin27apr27,1,7650855.story?track=rss
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Farhad
[Read the article: The awesome experience of Grand Theft Auto ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Do you ever get the sense that it's all a waste of time here? Salon readers insanity is only matched by their lack of humor. Boo Hiss. How can we eat chicken salad when there are children in the world who can't have chicken?
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cjmorgan
[Read the article: Iran complains about Clinton comments]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, President Obama of the Internet will bomb a US city as punishment and an admission of guilt that the peaceloving Persians were justified.
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AchillesisCrying
[Read the article: Iran complains about Clinton comments]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How dare I call Persians Persians! Why the temerity of me!
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At the old Soviet border with Finland
[Read the article: So long, Canada]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The trains ran on two different track gauges so that it was impossible to commandeer a train and go straight through in either direction. A special train was needed that could be lifted up off the rails and gauge adjusted.
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he'll need to recapture the working-class voters who helped him rout Clinton
[Read the article: Breaking the Democratic deadlock]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And if he doesn't, Saloniks will suck their sour grapes and claim those people were really secret GOP neocon zionist racist gay bashing carbon belching carnivores anyway. And screw them, when the Revolution comes, they'll be first against the wall!!!
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aVulcan
[Read the article: So long, Canada]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why yes, when I'm not eating babies, I generally horsewhip random strangers I meet. I putting a crematorium in the backyard right now. But it's SOLAR powered. Gotta be green nowadays.