Letters to the Editor
Jason G.
Published Letters: 104 Editor's Choice: 1
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GM = immoral?
[Read the article: Hypocrite environmentalists?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A previous commenter said:
"For me, splicing genes from one species into another is a moral, not prudential, wrong."
Really? You're saying it's intrinsically wrong to screw with a soybean's genes? Why would that be? Whose rights does it violate?
I always thought the anti-GM argument was explicitly prudential. If it's really about it being somehow intrinsically, morally wrong, I have to reconsider the issue.
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FAKE
[Read the article: I'm obsessed with being a hipster]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I call fake. This letter is not genuine. It is fake.
Fake fake fake fake fake fake fake.
Nobody actually thinks like this.
Fake.
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Yeah, I hate to break this to some of you....
[Read the article: I'm obsessed with being a hipster]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... but terms like "hipster" and "scenester" are meant to be PEJORATIVES. You're not supposed to want to be a hipster any more than you supposed to want to be a poseur or a tool or a douchebag. (These are all to some degree synonymous, by the way.)
"Hipster" is a term of derision. Hipsters are people you make fun of, not try to emulate.
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Telling quote from David Brooks
[Read the article: All you need to know about the Beltway journalist mind]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In the David Brooks post that GG links to, he quotes David Brooks (emphasis mine):
After Vietnam, Americans turned inward. Having lost faith in their leadership class, many Americans grew suspicious of power politics and hesitant about projecting American might around the world. . . .
What a perfect choice of words. For David Brooks and his ilk, important decisions - decisions regarding war and peace - are dictated from on high by a "leadership class," which the rest of us rely on to look out for our interests, but from which we are intrinsically separate.
Which to some extent is actually true, the only difference being that Brooks et al. don't see this as a bad thing.
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No surprise coming from Joan Walsh
[Read the article: Keith Olbermann calls it "betrayal"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The truth is always "over the top," isn't it Joan?
This kind of shit is why I find myself reading Salon less and less.
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Joan Walsh is a sellout
[Read the article: Keith Olbermann calls it "betrayal"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's really that simple. She has to burnish her "reasonable liberal" credentials, and that means calling foul whenever anybody tells the truth, as Olbermann did.
It's not about being "wimpy," it's about being willing to tell the truth even if it costs you some TV appearances.
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Still not getting it
[Read the article: Do Dems now share equal blame with Bush for Iraq? No]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And it's funny to be denounced for appearing on MSNBC by fans of Keith Olbermann, who works for, yes, MSNBC.
Yeah, that would be funny, if indeed anyone had done that. Unless you're referring to a comment that was an obvious but lame attempt at parody, no one on this site "denounced" you for appearing on MSNBC.
It's admirable, I guess, that you look at the comments, but it would be better if you actually, well, read them.
It's not about appearing on TV - it's about desperately trying to maintain your mainstream "respectability" so you can appear on TV. It has nothing to do with where you live; it's about SELLING OUT and trading your conscience for some minor celebrity.
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Nice that Bill waited until after he was out of office . . .
[Read the article: Bill Clinton explains immigration]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]. . . to start giving a shit about poverty.
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Proof that Journey sucks
[Read the article: Start believin']
[Read more letters about this article: Here]. . . can be found here:
http://tinyurl.com/yqdp5c
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Not so faulty
[Read the article: A Chicago pol wants you to run more red lights]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Someone above writes:
"The argument some readers have made, that banning the device would keep drivers guessing whether a light was rigged with a camera, is based on the faulty premise that drivers wouldn't have this information without the device."
Why would drivers who already have the information need the device???
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Ignore the tired propaganda . . .
[Read the article: The pro-choice pirate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]. . . from the likes of "Gramma." Ms. Gomperts is a hero, and I wish we had a million more like her.
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Abortion is good!
[Read the article: The pro-choice pirate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Contrary to the ramblings of some of the borderline personalities on this board, abortion is not an "evil" and many people, including myself, are not simply pro-choice but in fact pro-abortion.
In many, maybe most, cases, women who find themselves pregnant would be best advised to get an abortion. It's their choice, of course, but if any woman came to me and asked whether I thought she should get an abortion, I would tell her to get one.
Asking why men care about abortion rights - since they have "no dog in this hunt" - is offensive, and analogous to asking why white people care about civil rights for blacks.
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All's fair, kiddos
[Read the article: Will Rudy Giuliani's marriage hurt his chances?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anyone who is begging Ms. Walsh and other pundits to leave this alone needs to GET AN F'ING CLUE.
If you want to wait until the general election, fine, but when the time does come, there is one and only one priority: Making sure that Rudy Giuliani (or Mitt Romney, or John McCain, or Fred Thompson) does not become president. Whether this requires some mucking around in the slime, I don't care - there are important things at stake, things that are more important than taking the high road, a.k.a. the loser's road.
We've seen the damage a bad president can do. It can mean hundreds of thousands dead. We cannot let this happen again. If that means making an issue out of Rudy's marriages, or Mitt Romney's magic underwear, or Cindy McCain's drug problems, or Fred Thompson's shotgun marriage at age 17, or whatever, SO BE IT.
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I HATE PDFS
[Read the article: 237 reasons to have sex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You know, it's just good manners not to link to PDFs without clearly labeling the link as such.
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The Narcissism of the Netroots
[Read the article: Cheerful boos for Hillary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This article drives home just how unprincipled the "netroots" really are. It's not about policy for them, it's not about running and electing the most progressive candidates. It's about whether they are being shown the proper "respect."
It's the same dynamic that played itself out last year in the Sherrod Brown - Paul Hackett primary. Brown was unquestionably the better, more progressive candidate. But bloggers viewed Hackett as loyal to the netroots, so they supported him over Brown.
These people need to grow up, and quick. The netroots has an extraordinary opportunity, and they are in the process of blowing it by worrying about who does and who doesn't make them feel special, instead of issues that actually affect people's lives.
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NOT Ezra Klein!
[Read the article: Honk if you want to stop global warming]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please note: the post at Ezra Klein's site was written by a guest blogger.
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I AM SO PISSED OFF RIGHT NOW
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't find the NLCS matchup boring at all. I would love to watch the Rockies try to make it to their first World Series.
But I don't have cable, so I can't.
Baseball playoff games should be on free TV, period.