Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 260 Editor's Choice: 22
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Roll over boy, roll over...good boy!
[Read the article: Uncovering the truth about CIA torture tapes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A Republican lead congress (the word doesn’t even deserve capitalizing) issued over 1000 subpoenas to investigate alleged misconduct for Democrat politicos and members or the Clinton Administration in the 90's. This, according to *Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone, included 140 hours of hearing on Clinton’s alleged misuse of his Christmas card greeting list (Abu Ghraib on the other hand rated a whopping twelve hours of hearings). This egregious misuse of power overturned a long-standing tradition of getting minority support or at least committee vote before sticking it to someone.
In a shocking contrast the Dubya White House during the first six years of its reign didn’t even get one subpoena!
When the Dems came to power last year I thought that this was going to change. I thought for sure that some justice would be served. I guess I drastically underestimated what lily-livered milquetoasts the Democratic leadership were. Don’t get me wrong; I didn’t want the Dems to adopt the Republican’s tactics or their overarching zeal for putting the other party under their boot. I just wanted to see the Bush White House held to the same standards they had held the Clinton Administration to for so many years.
It’s like the Democrat Congress has been doped with the ultimate ruffi; they wake up every day with no memory of how they- or the people they serve- have been screwed. I have a pretty well trained dog but Pellosi/Reid and Company can roll over quicker than my pooch on even a bad day.
*Matt Taibbi: The Worse Congress Ever Everhttp://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12055360/cover_story_time_to_go_inside_the_worst_congress_ever
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Brand America
[Read the article: Brand-aid]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If America were a brand it would be GM: Large, cumbersome, financially in the toilet, sending it's manufacturing base oversees and marketing cars as though gas was still 90 cents a gallon and infinite in supply.
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Paglia: Rush Groupie
[Read the article: Hillary's race against time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"As a longtime listener, I was surprised and disappointed by Rush Limbaugh's call for Republicans to vote for Hillary in the Texas and Ohio primaries to keep the Democratic campaign in costly turmoil."
That's what dissapoints you about Rush Limbaugh Camille? What about all the other bullshit that comes out of his ignorant cake hole? Oh, wait, I forgot nothing gets you twiterpating more than conservative radio.
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Good Shit!
[Read the article: The bowel movement]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've been clammering for less political crap from Salon and more science and I got it. Thanks for the good shit-- I'm really moved!
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Gross Misrepresentation
[Read the article: I don't believe in atheists]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hedges said: "They [atheists] adopt many of the foundational belief systems of fundamentalists. For example, they believe that the human species is marching forward, that there is an advancement toward some kind of collective moral progress -- that we are moving towards, if not a Utopian, certainly a better, more perfected human society. That's fundamental to the Christian right, and it's also fundamental to the New Atheists."
This does not characterize the atheist point of view or the scientific point of view in which most atheist are invested in and I think Hedges knows it. I've read two of Chris Hedges books and found him intelligent and very insightful. However, his thesis on the 'New Atheists'(a misnomer if their ever was one since so called new atheists don't think, act or say anything different from that of the old atheists) is grossly off the mark.
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To Parafiller
[Read the article: I don't believe in atheists]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hitchens became a U.S. Citizen last year. Nevertheless, your point stands. There is no way you can call Dawkins a Brit and Hitchens not since he was Brit for the first 50+ years of his life (or does he just look fifty?).
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My God doesn't exist more than your non-existant God!
[Read the article: I don't believe in atheists]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Belief in gods and deities of every sort have evolved so much over the past ten thousand years that you could easily characterize what we have today as the ‘New Theism’. Take Christianity, the theism du jeur of the average American. Christianity has been so riddled with schisms, division, sects and disagreement over the past two millennia that for all intent and purposes it would be unrecognizable to the Christian of 100AD. What we have today really is the ‘New Christianity’!
Atheism on the other hand, has and always has believed in one central idea— the absence of deity. This hasn’t changed one whit in thousands of years. No atheist has ever died in a fight over whose god existed less than another atheist’s.
So what is so bloody new about the so-called ‘New Atheism’?
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Question:
[Read the article: The rise of the superclass]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is this supposed to be a new phenomenon?
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Oink turns out to be a ruff ruff
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I always thought Hollingsworth was a pig- not a dog!
Not that it make any kind of narrative difference though.