Letters to the Editor
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[Read the article: Forcing Larry Craig's resignation while embracing David Vitter]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I think that the gay lifestyle has, obviously, many features to it that may be unique to it" -- Chris Matthews
Perhaps Matthews is more knowledgeable on this than we know. He certainly has a fascination for "manly" figures; not that there's anything wrong with that, but shouldn't he just get out of the closet? It's being closeted that tends to encourage the more squalid and risky "anonymous" stuff; maybe even adds to the aura of excitement....
C'mon, Chris, if you've got it, flaunt it. Far healthier ... and more honest.
Cheers,
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Standards
[Read the article: Forcing Larry Craig's resignation while embracing David Vitter]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Soem eedjit wrote:
One is chastised for hypocrisy only if one has standards to contravene. Democrats have fewer behavioral standards which happily(?) results in fewer moral conundrums. I'd venture to say that the only sexual or relational taboo Democrats have is pedophilia, and I'll bet if Hilary Clinton were interested in underage girls, that would be OK too. In other words, when anything goes regarding relationships, there is nothing that could happen to be considered hypocritical. "This kind of problem arises only if one has standards."
Oh, I have standards. I think that dishonesty is wrong. So is hypocrisy. I think that Sh**ter is both, and an authoritarian azo to boot. Yes, indeed, I do have standards. Those of said Sh***ter, as evinced here seem to be "But Clinton did it too!...." Which, if you take him at face value WRT what else he says (and what conservatives and the likes of Sh***ter have publicly shouted for the last ten years), is essentially lowering the bar to "no standards at all", if you believe what else they say....
Cheers,
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@ saintlucid
[Read the article: Thomas Sowell offers superb Exhibit of the Right-wing Mind]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]With that in mind, Greenwald's critique of Sowell is essentially that Sowell is more sympathetic to those for whom he has more sympathy, which is hardly the clever indictment that Greenwald seems to think it is.
No. Glenn's critique is that Sowell's a RWA hypocrite. Please learn to read for comprehenison. Glenn points out that Sowell accuses leftists of defending the guilty even post-conviction, yet Sowell does that himself. This doesn't have to do with some appreciation of the merits of any particular case (Sowell doesn't criticise only those that are defending "obviously guilty" people and for that specific reason); the hypocrisy is in Sowell's condemnation while ignoring his own behaviour.
Cheers,
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Re: saintlucid
[Read the article: Thomas Sowell offers superb Exhibit of the Right-wing Mind]
[Read more letters about this article: Here][Glenn wrote]: That's even worse. You called what he wrote "psuedoscience" and then -- in a separate comment -- referred to Altemeyer as "the author of a tendentious psycho-political theory." You then proceeded to acknowledge that you had no basis for that claim and was hoping someone could help you find one.
Generally, rational people first obtain a basis for an opinion, then form and express the opinion - not the other way around.
At least "saintlucid" admitted his prejudice (while claiming he was looking for stuff likely to refute his prejudices rather than confirm them). Maybe he's on the road to enlightenment; admitting you have a problem is the first step ... albeit he may not be admitting that "prejudice" is a problem.
Cheers,
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Codswallop....
[Read the article: Dick Cheney's top aide: "We're one bomb away" from our goal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Er, no. He's a Rothabrdian, and I just am not. He holds some views I find unrealistic and even extreme.
Codswallop is a perfectly fine word! I employ it reasonably often, and did so at Glenn's old blog, too.
As do I. I like to rotate my favourite euphemisms for "bullsh*te" ("bovine scat", "horse apples", "horse patooties", "crapola", etc., just for variety, and "codswallop" is in the mix). No one would accuse me of being Mona in drag....
Cheers,
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@ (~~~~)
[Read the article: Dick Cheney's top aide: "We're one bomb away" from our goal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Were we to flee today...
"What do you mean 'we', white man?"
Where are you going to "flee" from? Curious minds want to know.
Cheers,
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@ saintlucid
[Read the article: Thomas Sowell offers superb Exhibit of the Right-wing Mind]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Having less than complete information or an imperfectly informed understanding is a universal problem....
Having no information, better to heed the aphorism: "Better to be silent and thought a fool...."
Hope you've learned. But somehow I don't think so....
Cheers,
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I got it figgered out, Glenn....
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt, Michael Ledeen and the "bomb Iran crazies"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here][Glenn, from the post]: Giuliani then, according to The Weekly Standard, justified the invasion this way: "American troops deposed Saddam Hussein, 'who was a major pillar of support for Islamic terrorism,' Giuliani said." Saddam Hussein was a "major pillar of support for Islamic terrorists." Al Qaeda works for Iran. Saddam might have been responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Iran might be responsible for the 9/11 attacks. There is simply no limit, no constraint of reality, on what they say.
But ... but ... but ... dontcha see?!?!? They're all Mooooooslims!!! Yaknow, dirty rag-headed Islamofascists. All of 'em.....
Cheers,
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Oh, yeah.....
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt, Michael Ledeen and the "bomb Iran crazies"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... and so is el-Baradei-al-Islam, that mo-fo backstabber....
Cheers,
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Re: Title
[Read the article: National Review's new tough guy, Mark Hemingway]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How about "The 'Sissy Mary' Klatch: Real Republicans and the Strange Mirrors They Purchase"
BTW, did you see that great article about the "Brave, Brave [Sir Robin]" Klansmen?:
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/white-flour-by-digby-via-perlstein.html
Cheers,
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Some eedjit wrote:
[Read the article: National Review's new tough guy, Mark Hemingway]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is your wakeup call folks.....
This is said eedjit's wakeup call, in case he needs enough information to make a judgment about barrel bottoms:
Freeperville
Deuce of Spades
Idiot Rottweiler
WhirledNutzDaily
Clownhall
Little Green Snotballs
Hell, such sites make even the slowest of Glenn's "correspondents" (ring a bell, "Sh**ter"?) seem like Albert Einstein's and Emily Post's illegitimate child....
Cheers,
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@ Ttus Pullo
[Read the article: National Review's new tough guy, Mark Hemingway]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry, folks, my bad. I must have been thinking of something else.
No. That isn't the problem, as is obvious by the fact that you "thinking of something else" is a category error.
Cheers,
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Some hypocritical eedjit wrote:
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't do it again.
Wow. Sh**ter's gonna 'enforce the law' [as he sees it] around here (while breaking it with gusto himself just like his RWA idols in the maladministration). Him and what army? Maybe he can enlist the services of Hemingway (see previous post).
Cheers,
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Glenn: heads-up....
[Read the article: A one-day guide to war supporters and their enablers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Billy Kristol (no, not that one, the sillier one) is talking about "sober", "serious" people....:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/09/kristol-sober-serious/
FYI....
Cheers,