Letters to the Editor
Till Eulenspiegel
Published Letters: 19
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sure
[Read the article: Blog news]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First political donation I've ever made. Hope to see you with the new book on Colbert or the Daily Show. Your writings, more than anything else right now, deserve a much wider audience.
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Staunch defenders of privacy, civil liberties, and state's rights
[Read the article: Charles Krauthammer takes rank hypocrisy to new lows]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When there's a Democrat in the White House.
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@RealName
[Read the article: After everything we did for them]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Which of our non-allies in the mid east, west Asia are in fact more liberal and democratic open societies than the ones we support?
Iran. Yes, Iran. It is far more democratic, far more open to Western travelers, etc, than Saudi Arabia.
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abortion and libertarianism
[Read the article: Fred Thompson, "tough guy" and "folksy cultural conservative"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think your last sentence sums up the views of the vast majority of the pro-choice crowd, LWM.
I can't see how any self-proclaimed libertarian would abide government intrusion in this case. As the LP says:
Recognizing that abortion is a sensitive issue and that people can hold good-faith views on both sides, we believe that government should be kept out of the matter, leaving the question to each person for their conscientious consideration.
http://www.lp.org/issues/platform_all.shtml
But perhaps the capital-L, the government exists to enforce "no force or fraud" and that's it, Libertarians are a special case.
I have a lot of problems with libertarianism of all stripes, but keeping government out of personal decisions seems a necessary part of it, and one I would strongly agree with.
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motivation
[Read the article: Our broken political discourse]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I actually had the opposite reaction to this article, JackHughes. Glenn Reynolds and David Broder are really so deluded that they truly believe their own bullshit. They just cannot comprehend that the world works differently than the one in their heads.
That, to me, is far more frightening than the notion that they are cynically exploiting their positions out of self-interest.
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Factiness
[Read the article: The GOP is the party of the Iraq war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn is taking the available scientific data (which is ample), and drawing simple logical conclusions. I don't understand how that's provoked so much controversy.
Look at the polling data and do the math:
http://www.pollster.com/08presidentialprimary.php
McCain and Giuliani have been bleeding support directly to Fred Thompson. Republican voters are looking for a more conservative candidate. Nothing of significance has changed with respect to the war or McCain since January, when his downturn began.
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logic
[Read the article: Michelle Malkin's hate sites]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From what logic does that "should" come from?
Are you serious? The word you're looking for is hypocrisy. The fact that Glenn is pointing out hypocrisy does not magically make him guilty of the same.
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Nooooooooooo!
[Read the article: Posting news]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ah well. Have fun, Glenn.
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which blogs?
[Read the article: Larry Craig's bathroom behavior and the right wing -- then and now]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I haven't even seen any comments like that on Daily Kos, which has a large centrist, Dem apologist contingent that can usually be counted on to quickly disgust me.
This time, it's schadenfreude all around.
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indeed...
[Read the article: McCain's selective defense of "traditional marriage"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"By the way look at how legitimizing unwed motherhood worked out."
We all know they should still be shunned, and forced to wear scarlet A's.
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What is he talking about?
[Read the article: Thomas Sowell offers superb Exhibit of the Right-wing Mind]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What is Sowell referring to when he says "Some on the left believe that they are innocent even after being proven guilty." The quote seems apropos of nothing.
I certainly hope he's not referring to organizations like The Innocence Project.
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trolls
[Read the article: Brit Hume and the Bush administration take propaganda to a new level]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Shooter doesn't even bother with the semblance of an argument or a point anymore. It's pure name-calling with the intent to provoke a response, and really should be ignored.
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censorship
[Read the article: Selective defenders of free expression]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You know, I kind of expected people here to be slightly more intelligent than Slashdotters. Apparently nobody actually knows what "censorship" means anymore. I'll let Merriam-Webster help:
censor (verb): to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable ; also : to suppress or delete as objectionable
Note carefully how it says absolutely nothing about the government.
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willful ignorance
[Read the article: Selective defenders of free expression]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's just fascinating to see such denial of basic facts in action. No matter how far Stephen Colbert pushes his satire, there will always be someone nodding vigorously in agreement...reference books: all fact, no heart. Wow.
If you really need a modern cultural example of common usage of the term "censor", go look up Standards & Practices. Unless you just *know*, in the gut, that books and words and modern usage are all irrelevant.
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email
[Read the article: A bizarre, unsolicited e-mail from Gen. Petraeus' spokesman ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As others have indicated, unless the military has made some colossal blunders in setting up its email system, the message was sent from his account, and probably from his computer.
I can't really think of any plausible scenario that involves someone other than him or a close coworker sending such an email to you.
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@soopie
[Read the article: A bizarre, unsolicited e-mail from Gen. Petraeus' spokesman ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's easy to "spoof" an email address, sure.
It is extremely difficult to fake the path that an email has taken. Note that the email goes directly from CENTCOM's servers to Salon's. Unless one of those servers was compromised, the path is legitimate, and it was sent from Boylan's computer, or at least a computer on the same local network.
So either it's an extremely elaborate and difficult hoax job, or Boylan or one of his coworkers sent it. Apply Occam's razor.
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@soopie
[Read the article: A bizarre, unsolicited e-mail from Gen. Petraeus' spokesman ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Again, no, it's really not remotely plausible that CENTCOM has open relays ("public machines").
Your scenario requires that someone hacked into one of these servers, and faked the headers perfectly, apparently just to send Glenn a nasty message, emulating Boylan's style fairly accurately. It's an outlandishly unlikely scenario.
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satire is truly impossible
[Read the article: Enemies everywhere]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The casual association of Harry Reid with Osama bin Laden and Vladimir Putin, the elevation of the Noble Businessman to sainthood...it's really too much. Hinderaker really believes he's living in Rush Limbaugh's Right-Wing Fantasy World.
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bigotry
[Read the article: Interview with Bill Donohue: Catholic League denounces McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bill Donohue may be an obnoxious clown, but I can find little evidence of bigotry. Compared to people like Robertson and Falwell, he's positively reasonable.