Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 29 Editor's Choice: 2
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Karl, Irving, & the Hubris Band
[Read the article: Now in War Room: You]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Very cool to have this Comments Feature. The interactivity makes the War Room truly part of the noosphere or, loosely, the world brain via Teillhard de Chardin.
It's about 2:29 pst & I'm on tenter hooks. Do I dare to go to sleep? Suppose I don't check CNN every hour & Karlsputin gets indicted & I didn't hear it live? I saw Jack Ruby shoot Oswald live after Jack Kennedy was shot down on my 19th birthday.
Flayed as I was then, nothing between then and now prepared me for the brilliant seething cobra-venom menace of the malevolent guy who looks like Santa Claus' aw-shucks nephew. The damage to our sweet future is concussive.
The fate of the Pretty Planet is in unusual flux tonight under a Taurus gibbous moon. Has hubris dented demented KarlBoy, the serial rapist of reputations? Going after people's families is Karl's lifelong ugly m.o. "Cross me and you really pay." .. .. .. As we can't we hear the astonishing furnaces of photosynthesis enchantingly alchemming sunlight into apples, we can't quite hear what plot Fat E is sending us from the future, though like the calm before the storm, we can feel that something this way comes.
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Faintly queasy about NYT
[Read the article: Times editor: Miller may have misled us, but we made mistakes, too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I find myself, even forlornly, feeling a faint queasyness about the NY Times. The whale-size red herrings Judy Miller & presumably her editor(s) swallowed from the scrupleless Mr. Chalabi et ilk led this country to make the biggest foreign policy error in modern times.
When it became clear that she had been suckered, duped, hornswoggled with 30-World-Trade Towers worth of Iraqis mutilated; our own dead and crippled kids, our loss of any international credibility, and $200,000 per minute worth of gruesome consequences, Ms. Miller should have been fired.
Jayson Blair seems small cheese --the fiction he wrote was 'the truth'; the 'truth' she wrote was fiction.
She knew she was neck-deep in a coziness that would allow a source to write about entwining aspen roots to her. That's too "connected" for our need to know to be confident.
She should be fired now. I see no other statement by the Times which could restore its readers' trust in the seriousness of the Times towards their sacred & honorable relationship with us.