Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 1824
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@ Tiberius
[Read the article: Preordering week for "A Tragic Legacy"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So,
it's a regurgitation of all your previous rants here that are never balanced against the acts of our enemies.
Here's the abriged version for the rest of the Bizzarro world:
USA am bad.
World am good.
Bush am evil.
Buy book.
So that's what you get out of it before reading it?!?!? What's profoundly sadder is the fact that this is likely to be all you get out of it after you read it (assuming that you read it at all, which is by no means certain -- albeit more probable than that you'll comprehend it). But I wouldn't advertise that fact if I were you....
Say, did you read Glenn's first book?
Cheers,
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@ shooter242
[Read the article: Preordering week for "A Tragic Legacy"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There is certainly no denying that for most commenters here, Bush is indeed the personification of evil... oddly because he, believes in Evil and thinks it should not go unchallenged.
Glad you can speak for us, "Shooter". Saves us the job of thinking for ourselves, and it certainly is unfair that you should have had such a luxury for so long while we have had to labour under the burden of composing our own thoughts. Thanks, "Shooter". While you're at it, send some beers and pizza over. Good boy.
My dislike for Dubya has more to do with his fundamental dishonesty, laziness, and stoopidity, "Shooter". You know, the same reason I think you're a steenkin' pile'o'crap.
BTW, clue for you: The world isn't bifurcated into the Manicheans who recognise Eyyyvvvilll, and the "moral relativists" who think that everything's OK, and that "if it feels good, do it...." That would be a fallacy of bifurcation to think that (which, FWIW, is also what Manicheanism is, not that this thought would ever occur to you). I believe that some things are evil. You know, like murder (including that of Drs. Gunn and Slepian). I think that what you do here is wrong. So, for the love of humanity, stop. Now.
Cheers,
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@ shooter242
[Read the article: Preordering week for "A Tragic Legacy"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Even more oddly, this book is all about evil and nothing else. Is there an assumption that after Bush leaves, all will be "good" by default?
Ummm, did you read Glenn's post?!?!?!?!? You know, like maybe this part?:
"George W. Bush will leave the political stage forever on January 20, 2009. But the right-wing political movement which embraced and sustained him -- and which cheered on the damage he has wrought on this country -- is not going anywhere. They are, of course, actively seeking his replacement -- someone who will be cosmetically different but who will be a loyal and unyielding adherent to the core, defining principles of the Manichean worldview that drove the Bush presidency."
Thought not. Moron.
Cheers,
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@ Tim W. Brown
[Read the article: Preordering week for "A Tragic Legacy"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've often thought that the editors of Salon should take a pair of scissors and ...
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Now, I'm wishing that Salon's editors would have taken a hacksaw and completely excised Greenwald's column of today. For it has to be the most obnoxious, over-the-top, self-serving sales pitch I've ever read in a journal of opinion. First, Greenwald pleas [sic] for his readers to pre-order his book....
You know, perhaps the editors might find more fertile fields for snippedy-doo-dah elsewhere ... ohhhh, I don't know, maybe amongst some of the more illiterate and "over-the-top" comments?
Cheers,
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@ Holly McLachlan
[Read the article: Preordering week for "A Tragic Legacy"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Shooter242 likes to call Arne a dick. Given that, I'd like to coin a unit of measurement in his honor -- the langsetmo, a metric measure of dickosity. Dickosity is a property of posts that is broadly analogous to viscosity in liquids. It refers to the adherent quality of the writer's words, his general stick-to-it-tiveness in posting, and the rate of flow of his letters. I don't know much more about it.... but I vaguely recall that there is an archaic, little used British measure of the same phenomenon. I think it was called the hitchens.....
I'm sorry, Holly, I'll have to decline the honour. My sweetie has a different idea of what "Langsetmo" means in that respect. I suggest you instead confer this honour on "Shooter", who exemplifies your proffered meaning much more elegantly. We'd even have the appropriate units, the "round", the "magazine", and the "bunker", depending on the "shooterity" of the miasmatic emanation.
On this note, I'd mention that the "Friedman unit" of six months quagmire has a very fortuitous abbreviation: the "FU". As in the standard military nomenclature "FUBAR"....
Cheers,
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@ bebop-o
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Arne is the Mr. "trollinator."
Sorry, I've already bequeathed that sobriquet to the sadly lamented and departed "Bart" DePalma, who got relegated to sequels of ever-lessening attractiveness over at Balkinization. "Bart" is the apotheosis of "trollinator", rising from the dead to once again infest the threads after you've filled his arguments with more lead than in the keel of a clipper ship. Nothing stops him, not facts, not logic, not proper rhetorical technique, only a ebbing interest from the folks that are titillated by verbal bloodshed and carnage.
If you would, consider me instead a Linda Hamilton.....
Cheers,