Letters to the Editor
timbuktom
Published Letters: 2445 Editor's Choice: 141
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Kiss My Baht!
[Read the article: Gross international unhappiness]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So, now that the Thai stock market has crashed, it is a great investment, no? Nothing really wrong with the economy or the currency except momentary idiocy by the Thai government?
I am putting the kiddies' college funds and mom's life savings into Thailand. I trust you, Andrew.
Up the Baht!
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More Homeland Security = Merrier Christmas
[Read the article: Dreaming of a white Christmas]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I know what you mean about those Canadians! I'm sitting here in Detroit, looking right across the river into the foreign country of Canada.
I would feel a lot merrier if we had some well-trained armor-encased Lance Corporals patroling the river bank. Where are the congressional appropriations for barbed wire, landing obstacles, and infra-red sensors on our northern border??!!
P.S. It just dawned on me that they should have called it Hometown Security, rather than Homeland Security. Does that not sound a lot more American?
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News From Iraq
[Read the article: Gates in Baghdad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Did you see this? This is part of an AP description of an Iraqi army parade in Najaf:
"About 1,500 police officers and soldiers paraded on a soccer field...
At one point, a small group of officers wearing dark green T-shirts stepped forward with a live rabbit and tore it to pieces. The leader chomped out the heart with a yell, then passed around the blood-soaked remains to his comrades, each of whom took a bite. The group also bit the heads off frogs."
(?!)
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Duffy Dougherty Said It, Not Bear B.
[Read the article: Bush: "We're not winning, we're not losing"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Duffy Dougherty, football coach at Michigan State, said that a tie is like kissing your sister.
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Change of Tone
[Read the article: Gross international unhappiness]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just reread my post from last night, and it reads mean. I apologize. I was trying to make a pun on Baht/Butt. I will stop posting late at night after the wine runs out.
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Swords and such?
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How would a Samurai fare against an Olympic fencer? Is anybody doing cross-tradition fencing? American boys would be very interested to know whether Zorro could beat Soji-San.
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"Horns And A Halo"
[Read the article: A stretch, even for Drudge]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What do you think, all you Political Christians? Could this have happened by accident? Or does The Lord make everything happen for a reason?
Is this a revelation? The Lord must be sending a message with this photo! One way or another, The End must be near!
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In America, Mostly Only Assassins And Female Authors Have Middle Names
[Read the article: What's in a name?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who are these people: Morrow, Orne, Ingalls? Who are these people: Harvey, Warnek, Wilkes? And who is this guy: Milhouse?
Milhouse is a stupider middle name than Hussein. Senator Obama still is in the race.
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Fencing - Thanks Dendrio! - I was serious...
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Where else but here with The King could I get a serious response to a swordfighting question?
Do not discount fencing, all you mainstream sports fans. Every American boy who ever has lived loves swordfighting.
And American girls are getting very good at it, too. Take a look at the deadly kids on the American fencing teams, and at all the kids who are learning the Asian traditional styles.
Touche!
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Move Forward! Put Him On Trial!
[Read the article: Behind Bush's "new way forward"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Impeach him. Charge him with Torture. That is a simple cut-and-dried crime.
Incompetence is not a straightforward crime, even catastrophic incompetence. And lying by itself is not actually a crime, either, even though his lies have had criminal consequences.
Please charge him and try him. And then, if he gets off, charge him with something else. Anything else, even if it is not as straightforward. Keep it up until his term is over. Then forget him. Finally, eventually, piss on his grave.
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Gotta Reciprocate...
[Read the article: Gates in Baghdad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for your mention, Ebonius. I am delighted and humbled to be in the company of such as you and Chas, and many others.
Let's all keep our perspective, and quit this posting for a few days, and have a great holiday! Wise Men From The East have informed me that George W. Herod is not as important as we fear.
Joy to the world!
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Even Salon Posters Support You!
[Read the article: Post-traumatic futility disorder]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Give yourself honor for doing the job you have done. Even though we wish you had not had to go to Iraq, we honor you. We are in awe of you.
The people who started the war do not know what the war is like. And you, the people who have fought, had no part in starting the war. Peace, now. We are on your side.
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Some Philosophy To Go Wth This Tech Talk And Metaphor Parsing
[Read the article: In China, the revolution will be LCD televised]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Andrew Leonard, In your last paragraph you hit on the paradox, irony, contradiction (call it what you will) that China is rich and poor, backward and progressive, new and ancient, good and bad... All at once.
That recognition of "all-at-onceness" is the perspective we usually lack in most of our public discussions. e.g. Bush and Cheney get away with pretending nobody can support American troops while also criticizing the commander in chief.
It's always the best of times and the worst of times. Please keep on pointing that out.
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Onward "Christian" Soldiers
[Read the article: The war on Christmas goes global]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We are seeing a new phase in christianist audacity. Among themselves, for a long time, they have been saying that,
1. America is a Christian Nation,
2. Geo. Washington, Thos. Jefferson et al. intended every American to choose Jesus Christ as his or her personal lord and savior,
3. The Quran is a book of lies,
4. Lots of other preposterous stuff.
Nationally, speaking to the rest of us, this is the first time an important elected official has taken this tack. You almost have to go back to James Watt's idiotic apocalyptic comments under Ronald Reagan to find something comparable.
But please note that back in the 1980s, Watt was dismissed as a beyond-the-fringe kook. Now, this twit from Virginia finds a friendly audience, and hooks up with the English-As-Official-Language group and the No-Maccaccas-In-My-Backyard club.
Finally, maybe reassuring maybe more alarming: These christianists hate Catholics, tolerant Christians, nearly anybody who does not spout their christianist cliches in their own hicky christianist accent. American Muslims are not alone. They hate almost everybody.
Merry Christmas!