Letters to the Editor
smileyy
Published Letters: 119 Editor's Choice: 17
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Iran and Israel
[Read the article: More warnings about a U.S.-Iran war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To what extent does Iran, as a sovereign state, have a right to view Israel as a threat to *its* security? Israel, after all, already has the nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them to Iran.
Iran's saber may be the one rattling the loudest, but that doesn't mean Israel's is any less sharp.
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GBA, 9/11
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The great irony of the rise in popularity of God Bless America following 9/11 was that The Star Spangled Banner already captured the appropriate patriotic sentiment: a country remaining strong through dark and dangerous hours.
We didn't need to invoke a stinking deity to bless us after that. The strength had been there all along (well, maybe not, given how fast we sold out our own American values).
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@Wesley
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's a useless that depends entirely on the players *around* Griffey. Home Runs is the only part of that equation he has any influence on.
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@Mikes Pace
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A lot of the information we've gotten about steroid and other drug use has come from leaks of information, some of them illegal.
It has yet to be seen whether there is a stick. Is there any carrot for the players either?
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Carrot, stick
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Looks like you're not familiar with that analogy:
The carrot (an incentive) you dangle in front of the horse to motivate it to move forward. That would be something like immunity, which isn't a whole lot, because its unclear that any players are being criminally investigated or threatened with suspension (other than Giambi). You can't grant immunity from public opinion.
The stick is what you beat the horse with when the incentive isn't working. In this case, its suspension for Giambi.
This whole thing is going back to King's point that the players who have said anything are being threatened with the stick. What's my motivation as a player to talk at all? Especially when the owners and MLB _aren't_ being scrutinized for their own involvement.
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Genius
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Recycling a concept that's still relevant 20 years later isn't laziness -- its demonstrative of genius.
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Anti-Israel
[Read the article: The mainstream, sane, serious Joe Lieberman]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I suspect *anything* less extreme than Joe Lieberman will be construed as being Anti-Israel.
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If they make it vague enough, they'll someday get to something that's true
[Read the article: Revisionist history]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I expect the report to contain "The surge was designed to send more troops to Iraq."
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Byes
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]jblairpdx to research the notion of "Bye", IMO
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To paraphrase a t-shirt
[Read the article: Inside the CIA's notorious "black sites"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I like the moral low-ground. It's easy, and there's lots of people to share it with.
Remember kids, capitalist totalitarianism is so much better than communist or Islamic totalitarianism!
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@wmoser
[Read the article: Inside the CIA's notorious "black sites"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I like the notion of treating someone so horrifically that, when they tell their story, no one would believe it.
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Low-quality?
[Read the article: Trent Reznor's free-music experiment: The numbers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]192kbps is a fairly high quality MP3. Its good enough for most people to listen to without feeling like they're missing anything. It may not be good enough to remix -- you'd want a lossless format for that, but I don't see the incentive for a lot of people to buy the higher quality tracks.
I wonder if they might not have made more money with a Radiohead-esque pay-us-want-you-want-for-it sale of the 192kbps tracks. Their current model would leave me feeling not a single pang of remorse for downloading the free tracks, whereas I paid for the Radiohead tracks.
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Fouls, free throws
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Shooting a one-and-one with 1:15 left and a four-point lead, Douglas-Roberts missed.
There's something subtle here. Kansas was playing an extremely athletic Memphis team, and yet, had committed fewer than 10 fouls in 18:45 of play.
If this is a two-shot (double bonus) situation, Kansas might never win the game.
Or Memphis might still choke it away. Who's to say.
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You can't put boundaries on art
[Read the article: My body, my choice, my art project?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Putting boundaries on art is some distance down the slippery slope of censorship. Even if these boundaries are just a millimeter down the slope, there's a lot that don't want to be on the slope at all.
Number me among them.
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Being wrong doesn't help either.
[Read the article: Save the animals, exploit the women]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Saturated fat and cholesterol have their health problems, but weight gain isn't really among them.
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@jazztao
[Read the article: Partial score: George Carlin, 71]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]By "going home", I hope you mean "buried in the ground in a box" or "incinerated into ashes". George Carlin was an atheist.
Soft-peddling that disrespects his legacy.
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@kufir77
[Read the article: Judge OKs protest zones for Dem convention]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes. Government that restricts the full particpation of the people is not proper government.
Granted, we've never had proper government. But don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
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Stripper
[Read the article: What's that smell? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Strippers smell like too much cheap vanilla perfume.