Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 384 Editor's Choice: 71
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Bugliosi Needs Medication
[Read the article: Chris Matthews gets it wrong -- again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just saw the 'debate' on Chris Matthews "Hardblow". Bugliosi was completely out of control. He was enraged to the point of hysterics. Why? Because someone had the nerve to disagree with him. What a big baby. He needs to take a pill... or a swig of something... or whatever pacifier he uses when he has an embarrassing public freakout. I expected him to start screaming "My blankey! My blue blankey! Give me my blue blankey!" I could picture Zero Mostel throwing a glass of water in his face.
Get a hold of yourself, Bugliosi. That type of excessively frenzied reaction went out with the advent of pharmaceutical therapy. There is help available. Please avail yourself.
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About Bumblebees
[Read the article: Who killed the honeybees?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I posted a letter about the decline of bumblebees in my garden in the past 12 years. One thing I have noticed - my neighborhood is a lot more affluent than it used to be. The young homeowners are middle-aged now and I notice every spring and fall more of those yellow signs people have in their yards when pesticides have been applied by a professional lawn service. I wonder if that may have something to do with it. Ten years ago, the young homeowners could not afford lawn services and I had tons of bumble bees.
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Crybaby Conservatives and Universities
[Read the article: The liberals are speaking, the liberals are speaking!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When Christian colleges start hiring liberal Jewish professors from New York and out-and-proud gay professors and pro-choice female professors and former liberal Democratic politicians, and when they start offering classes which give equal consideration to liberal and conservative points of view, that's when I'll start taking their unfounded paranoid demands for affirmative action for conservatives at non-Christian colleges seriously.
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The Final Word "It's All a Big Nothing"
[Read the article: Our favorite murderer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Looks like Chase channeled Livia for the closing shot in tonight's grand finale. As she was dying she told AJ "It's all a big nothing."
I think was is very appropriate to end the series with a hat tip to Livia's philosopy.
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Let's Face It
[Read the article: McNulty: I was out of the loop]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]None of these people will ever admit to anything. They know they won't go to jail if they play dumb. Even if convicted of something, they'll be pardoned.
The one thing they won't do is turn on their colleagues. How long do you think you would live if you pissed off Dick Cheney and/or the Bushes? A few too many people turned up as "suicides" after pissing these people off. And nobody would believe your survivors if they claimed you'd been murdered by Bush/Cheney people, because we all know there's no such thing as a conspiracy in America. Why the very idea of conspiracies is JUST INSANE. You'll get people like Chris Matthews and Vince Bugliosi and Joseph DeGenova screaming at the top of their lungs about what a nutbar you are if you believe in conspiracies.
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Interesting Sidenote
[Read the article: Giuliani's loyalty to an accused priest]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The boys attended Bishop Loughlin High School in Brooklyn together, where Giuliani, Placa and Peter Powers, later to become chief aide to Giuliani during his first term as mayor of New York City, were in an opera club together...... Giuliani, Powers and Placa later attended Manhattan College together and were fraternity brothers at Phi Rho Pi.
NEW YORK, NY, February 11, 2003 – The Fox Entertainment Group (NYSE: FOX) today announced that Peter J. Powers, President and Chief Executive Officer of Powers Global Strategies LLC, has been elected to the Company's Board of Directors. Mr. Powers, a former First Deputy Mayor of the City of New York, has also been appointed to the Company's Audit Committee.
Announcing Mr. Powers' election to the Board, Rupert Murdoch, Fox Entertainment Group's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said: "Peter's creative energy, strategic expertise and veteran knowledge of corporate finance will be as valuable to Fox as they have been to city governments and businesses for more than three decades. We look forward to having Peter's counsel as we continue to build the strength of our Fox brand and operations.".........
Mr. Powers, 58, currently serves on the Board of Directors of NDS Group plc, as Chairman of that company's Remuneration Committee and as a member of its Audit Committee. In addition, he is a member of the Boards of Directors of the Partnership for New York City, the Association for a Better New York, the Central Park Conservancy, City Center, Safe Horizon and NYC & Co. Mr. Powers is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Manhattan College and of the Advisory Board of the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College of the City of New York. During his career, Mr. Powers has served as an outside director on the audit, independent evaluation and investigatory committees of various publicly and privately held companies.
http://www.newscorp.com/news/news_181.html
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No big surprise there to those of us who are New Yorkers. Giuliani has gotten more than one payback from Murdoch for having threatened Time Warner Cable with revocation of its license while he was mayor of NYC, when Time Warner initially declined to carry Fox News in New York. Since they were already carrying CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and NY1 24 hour news channels, Time Warner said they didn't have room for it. No fear, Rudy got his way, eventually. And quite a few FOR (Friends of Rudy) got some Fox baksheesh, including Pete Snyder the CEO of New Media Strategies, a "former political media consultant and a pollster to New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani" who coincidentally had Time Warner AOL as a client of his New Media Strategies organization. Pete Snyder "regularly appears as a commentator on the Fox News Channel and has served as a marketing and political expert on CNBC, The News with Brian Williams, the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, Fox News Channel’s Your World with Neil Cavuto, Hannity and Colmes and Fox and Friends."
It's good to be Rudy's friend, no?