Letters to the Editor
chemical
Published Letters: 20 Editor's Choice: 1
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various
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]No one answers our questions, right chemical? @10:13 noncarbruden tries to 'snaffle up' at the imaginary table and we ignore?...chemical taps fingers patiently, throws knives and forks, pounds the forehead onto home-plate, and no appears sanctified, but chemical offers to say a grace before eating out of a dog-bowl? (tease) Bow heads and say...
-bebop-o
no, no, no. I want fish fry fresh, truite au bleu and some of that sweet-butter pastry. Melting flaky.
I'm not as good with that Google thing as sysprog, (How did you find that /ag/readingroom...??? fraud, glorious fraud. Wouldn't it be glorious if they were snarled in the fallout from the ENRON debacle?) but maybe this is something Triune:
http://www.carcharon.com/threeworlds.htm
A fantasy/sci fi series, which would fit with the excellent explanation of Boo and Minsc of Baldur's Gate II presented by DataShade. Anyway, there seem to be multiple candidates for use of 'Triune' in the scifi/fantasy/DandD genres, although I'm still unsure what that has to do with Glenn's unclaimed territories.
anyway, this makes more sense to me than either the Christian trinity reference or the theory of Triune brain suggested by LWM. I would not expect a Redstate poster who identifies with a brain-damaged hooligan to compliment anyone's brain, even with a backhand lob.
The cephalopods brought to mind the uses of squid ink and a riff up on redacted. What do these DOJ releases look like, a smoke-screan cloud of ink sprayed out behind an escaping cephalopod? Running scared. Leaving behind an assortment of ink spattered missives. missions unaccomplished. I do hope. The redacted military commission pages shown on Balkin. They lack intestinal fortitude. Intestines for brains.
Ah, for some good Sicilian frutta di mare. Lemon juice for your wounds. It will make it heal better, he said. Perhaps it did. Do lemon trees grow in D.C.? The cherries are too sweet, and most give no fruit at all. Perhaps it will come.
globally warming. I am in London and it is June/July hot, with a hazy sun. BBQ in April? Where are the showers? There can be no question. The death-watch beetles move further north, eating through another library. The ladybirds arrive in February, waiting on my fencepost for a chance to fly, warmed by the midday sun. and it will come. We discuss water and how to capture it, how to keep the lettuces from wilting and the radishes from turning bitter. The ecosystems shuffle species to new destinations, and the frost never comes. How can political time be slower than geological? Neither can be measured in sound bites, even in this fast, fast world.
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for a bit of contrast...
[Read the article: The warped reality of our media stars]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you can watch a real interview:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/16/bolton-we-have-no-interest-in-iraqs-well-being/
It's John Bolton being interviewed by a BBC reporter who is quite honestly aghast at what he's hearing, and doesn't let it drop. Imagine this on a Sunday talk show... Would a few people, maybe, see how utterly corrupt and shameless this excuse for an administration is? just maybe...
It is well known that just repeating something is an effective method of indoctrination. It is still possible for people to arrive at the truth eventually, but it takes much much longer when they're sitting in a stew of talking points while viewing a limited selection of 'facts'. My colleagues in the Netherlands simply could not believe the outcome of the 2004 elections. Nor could I. I've heard claims that the election was rigged, but it still remains that lots and lots of people bought those media talking points. Lots and lots of people voted for the Republicans, even with a large number of facts available. You don't think the media had, hmm, maybe just a slight effect on this?
When people are making up their minds, they need facts, not irrelevant information (e.g. haircuts) or misleading spin. When judging people, they don't need nice safe chats with pre-agreed questions, they need a knowledgeable reporter who will follow up an inadequate response and call the BS for what it is. Many people just don't have the time, inclination, whatever, to filter it themselves, so they just lap up the media stew. They may choke on some of it evenutally, but by then.... well, you know that story.
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dog doo
[Read the article: The warped reality of our media stars]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I do, in fact, seem to have a neighbor who lets his dog doo in front of my house. I do not walk around it. I have tried it, but it only piles up and causes no end of trouble. It is better to address the problem by at very least cleaning up today's pile.
Maybe, however, we could consider the cleaning up to be as minimal a task as possible, i.e. setting the record straight as opposed to actually trying to appeal to Shooter's intelligence, integrity, or other worthy faculties.
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RE: alternative media
[Read the article: The warped reality of our media stars]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One source that really affects people is local newspapers. Another is word of mouth. Another is various social networks - church, work, clubs. My parents are in 'small' town Minnesota (pop. about 30,000). Everyone is connected to everyone by about 1 or 2 degrees of separation, at most. They have a local college, a military recruiting office, a large high school with many students from outlying farming areas. The negative information about Iraq doesn't come from the sunday TV shows, it comes from the obituaries in the local newspapers. The calls to 'support our troops' are contrasted directly with the facts of extended tours, wounded soldiers, veterans' stories. The best wishes, the sendoffs, the encouragments and hopes for success are coming from real people who follow the real stories of those they care about. These local stories frequently get reported in local newspapers.