Letters to the Editor
romath
Published Letters: 55 Editor's Choice: 5
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Go ask Alice
[Read the article: Go ask Alice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Unfortunately, the talk with Waters is a little less than frank in at least one respect. How come Waters wasn't asked the obvious: Do you mean to tell me that with all those millions of Iraqis going with little food, electricity and water, let alone so many being killed as a result of the U.S. invasion, what people in the U.S. eat should be the number one political issue?
OTOH, fresh locally or regionally grown food is available in many other countries at daily outdoor markets, with enlarged ones on Sundays (France comes to mind first). Perhaps the way of we in the U.S. conceive of the structure of cities and transporation is part of the food problem.
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I can't believe it's not torture, continued
[Read the article: I can't believe it's not torture, continued]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mukasey has been nominated to be W's AG, so it wouldn't make much sense for him to contradict his future boss, would it? Even less so when Mukasey the Judge has let every form of torture pass as legitimate. To think of it, maybe that's why he was nominated. Which leads to the question, What's more deceptive, Mukasey's responses or liberals posturing about it?
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King Kaufman's Sports Daily: The World Series D.H. rule
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The TV announcers commented that the DH rule has led to better pitching in the AL than the NL, to deal with an ninth good hitter. I don't like the DH, but that explanation makes a lot of sense to me. I would also think it improves a team's hitting, having a nonpitcher or two batting a few times regularly rather than primarily getting pitch-hit swings.
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Public bathroom dilemma: Paper or air?
[Read the article: Public bathroom dilemma: Paper or air?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When was the last time you dried your face with air? (or anything other than face and forearms?)
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The Tom Friedman of 2002 has not gone anywhere
[Read the article: The Tom Friedman of 2002 has not gone anywhere]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anyone who wants to know what Minnesota is really like (human affairs), Tom Friedman of Saint Paul is a walking exhibition: second to third rate mind, congenitally dishonest, basically conservative, well puffed up, trying to be like NYC w/o having a clue.
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Corporate profiteering against Iraq vets?
[Read the article: Corporate profiteering against Iraq vets?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since we live in a capitalist country, the integration of capital's leadership and staff into positions of government, and vice-versa, is entirely normal. The perception of conflict of interest is in the head of the writer. Of course, some get carried away in the mix and have to be called to order, but the irony here is that the Benjamin keeps repeating that Peake and QTC have been unusually honest (or at least non-corupt) in their government contracts!
The problem at the VA is not QTC, but the whole way vets are treated and taken care of. Mr. Benjamin doesn't have much to say about that. Certainly, no appointment can even speak to that matter without first confronting the profit-based nature of the economy. Relative to business profit, government spending on health care is overhead that reaps few benefits and thus tends to gravitate to politically minimum acceptable levels.
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Lack of Contraception kills too
[Read the article: Restoring Pill discounts would be easier than you might think]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"That's a sort of stupid comparison (if you don't have insulin you die)."
With abortion effectively un- or barely available in a large part of the country, a woman without birth control pills could easily end up dead in a some illegal abortion mill - or worse.
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Of course it is - for women!
[Read the article: Is abortion a civil rights issue?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Of course the right to have abortion is a civil rights issue. Instead of fighting the court case on abortion services as an issue of equal rights for women, those carrying the case cowered politically and decided to fight it as a privacy issue. And women have suffered for it since.
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Clinton and Obama reject the race bait?
[Read the article: The Democrats defeat the media]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually, the damage has already been done, and in this case it wasn't the media's fault. Hillary's statement about the Civil Rights Movement and subsequent legislation was insensitively put and that fact wasn't lost on African Americans. To wit, that 2/3 voted Undecided yesterday in Michigan (per exit polls). Obama knowing that it does him no good to push the matter further does not mean that it was "rejected" or that the media was defeated.
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Earth to Joe Conason!
[Read the article: Holy Constitution!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Where've you been? Huckabee's views have been known for many years. Fascism in the U.S. takes the shape of militant Christian Fundamentalism. Huckabee's two biggest problems are that the climate is not right for a mass fascist movement and he's an unlikely leader if it were. Still, it is a sign of both the current state of American politics and its general backwardness that someone of Huckabee's ilk could be a front runner, however temporarily.
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Stopovers and Visits
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yawn... A rather pedestrian topic this time. More interesting - and ominous - is the fact that flying through a country such as the U.S., with merely an in-airport momentary stopover, can lead to being tossed in a military prison for alleged terrorism.
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Surprising News
[Read the article: Guatemala's nutrition lottery]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gee, all the authors have done is strip the charade off the nature of their health research. After all, the primary point of public health in capitalist society is to get everyone to work day after day and thus maximize profits. This was well known and discussed in the 19th century.
Of course, the idea that children's nutrition affects their mental and physical capabilities as adults is suprising news, isn't it?
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Surprising News
[Read the article: Guatemala's nutrition lottery]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gee, all the authors have done is strip the charade off the nature of their health research. After all, the primary point of public health in capitalist society is to get everyone to work day after day and thus maximize profits. This was well known and discussed in the 19th century.
Of course, the idea that children's nutrition affects their mental and physical capabilities as adults is suprising news, isn't it?