Letters to the Editor
LeCastor
Published Letters: 1916 Editor's Choice: 86
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Nice Noose
[Read the article: The U.S. is "indefensible"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My post mostly consisted of quotes from US government websites and documents. So by that logic (the transitive property), the US government is an Al Qaeda sympathizer.
You're doing great there, pal...
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Statistics on When Abortions Happen
[Read the article: Say it, sister: "I had an abortion"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Of the 1.6 million abortions performed in the U.S. each year,
-91 percent are performed during the first trimester (12 or fewer weeks' gestation);
-9 percent are performed in the second trimester (24 or fewer weeks' gestation);
-and only about 100 are performed in the third trimester (more than 24 weeks' gestation), approximately .01 percent of all abortions performed. "
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,880,00.html
So, for the most part, yeah, it IS a clump of cells.
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This Guy is an Orthodox Rabbi
[Read the article: Breast-feeding: Bad for marriages?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Can we expect all that much from him? It'd be like demanding feminism from Imam Al-Sistani. It's not gonna happen.
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Al, you sound a bit ...
[Read the article: The next New Orleans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]well, how to say, obsessed with survival? And it's especially bizarre that you seem like you are running a boot camp of a life for your kids, and you take them out into very dangerous conditions on your boat.
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Even if you are pro-life, this is not a good strategy
[Read the article: No refills for you]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As so many others have pointed out, it is not the role of the pharmacist to make this kind of decision for another person. It's simply not their job to refuse to fill prescriptions.
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"Likes opera" = "Gay"?
[Read the article: I really like gay men, but I'm not gay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]oh that's rich.
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RT-bashing
[Read the article: Wait, was Karl Rove in Boulder this week?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1) Six year old girls are never 'weird'.
I don't even know what that means!
Everyone loves to bash a woman in a position of power. What position of power, you ask? She publishes articles on Salon and many other publicans, and none of you (the letter writers, including myself) do. So you try to cut her down. It's pathetic.
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Worst Idea Ever
[Read the article: My body (except in prison)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Playing the odds
The vast majority of incarcerated persons (male or female) will eventually get out of prison. They can therefore have a chance of reuniting with a living child rather than having to "start over" with replacing a child who was aborted. And maybe the hope of reunification can be a great "incentive" for a prisoner to get rehabilitated in hopes of getting the kid back.
-- Anonymous
Oh my god, you must be joking?! Why not then force each man and woman prisoner to have a child or to adopt a child while in prison, then send this child to foster homes until the prisoner is released, with no money, no job and no housing, and then have them reunite? This is the worst idea ever...
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"I have to say that your standard-issue suburban mother is usually one of the dumbest human beings ever to draw breath."
[Read the article: "Security moms" feel insecure, forsake GOP]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now, i'm not a big fan of the suburban mom, but, and correct me if i am wrong, you purport to have a wife and chidren, so...uh... is your wife a suburban mom?
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Publicans & Co.
[Read the article: Wait, was Karl Rove in Boulder this week?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]RT-bashing
Everyone loves to bash a woman in a position of power. What position of power, you ask? She publishes articles on Salon and many other publicans
Presumably one of the sources of RT's awesome power is that she knows the difference between a publican and a publication and is in fact prepared to go the extra mile and refer to the correct word - always a plus for a writer, especially in this instance in which the Oxford English Dictionary defines a publican as
One who keeps a public house; a licensed victualler; a keeper of an ale-house or tavern.
Hence, Re publican - one who has repeated the publican experience, possibly a few times too many.
Well, i guess that's why RT is the published writer and not me, but I admit, your post was pretty funny.
I never said that she had "awesome power," simply relatively more power that a Joe (or Jane) Shoe like myself who posts on the letters section. I think it's pretty indisputable. Her opinions are broadcast (and validated by being published) to many readers, whereas ours in the letters sections are not.
I simply don't understand why people think they have license to attack her personally, to call her "becky" for example. If she's so stupid, why read her articles? why bother posting on the letters section about her stupidity? and if she truly is that stupid, why not show it simply and elegantly by refuting her arguments instead of insulting her?
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"America's dead creepy sweetheart"
[Read the article: Wait, was Karl Rove in Boulder this week?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think RT's used the phrase to characterize how the media already view JonBenet and how so many talking heads have exploited the story for their own gain (helping the careers of many an unskilled investigative reporter), and not to actually insult JonBenet or her memory. In fact, the whole piece was a criticism of the media's coverage and disrespect that has been heaped upon JonBenet and her memory. IMHO.