Letters to the Editor
timbuktom
Published Letters: 2445 Editor's Choice: 141
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This is nothing new.
[Read the article: Fear of female Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The people who have voted for G.W. Bush always irrationally have hated Senator Clinton. For years, Rush Limbaugh has said, "And then there's Hillry!" whenever his show bogs down, and he gets an immediate laugh from his audience.
Many women quietly like her, though. They like her a lot. Maybe they like her enough to overcome the irrational hatred. Or maybe we should put Senator Edwards at the top of the ticket.
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"Mayberry Machiavellis" is Near-Brilliant
[Read the article: Upending the Mayberry Machiavellis]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]G.W. Bush and his pals want everybody to believe they are honest straight-shooters from a nearly-vanished kinder, gentler America. But they actually are sneaky back-stabbers, cynical war-mongers.
Honestly, I believe G.W. Bush's (phoney-baloney) cowboy accent and his bad grammar contribute more to his appeal than any other factors. They do not appeal to me, but the people of G.W. Bush's Amurica have some sort of an anti-fancypants chip on their right shoulders. They fall for him.
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Cool It With All This Abstract Baloney!
[Read the article: I-mess]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]These are nice 17, 18, 19-years old girls. Old, strange, creepy Imus called them whores, and laughed about it.
Take it back, and never again use your stinky mouth to say my lovely daughter's name!
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King, I have forgotten your beautiful son's name..
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What if somebody who did not even know him called your son a coin-flipping [something bad]? Publicly.
It is not a complicated issue. One more jerk is off the radio. That is good.
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From an Artist's Perspective, From a Songwriter's Perspective
[Read the article: Tangled up in Seuss]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ryan's thing is clever and fun, but it is not original. If he ever uses any of my words or my music, I want him to ask permission and also pay me.
Same thing if he ever imitates my voice or my style or uses my name or my picture.
Geisel and Dylan created this stuff. Ryan just presented it. Ryan, may I use some of your own originals? Are your own originals good enough to present or to publish?
Covers are covers. Tributes are tributes. They involve artistry, but they are not the same as original art.
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Answer on Titles
[Read the article: Tangled up in Seuss]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lynx - Titles are not subject to copyright in the same way content is. Legally, you may call your own new song Bohemian Rhapsody, as far as I know.
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Too Bad...
[Read the article: He didn't mean to leak Plame's identity, either]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...they couldn't keep Walter Reed Hospital neat and orderly.
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If you do not get thi article...
[Read the article: Say it loud: I'm elite and proud!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... If you do not think it is funny and insightful and true, you may be part of the problem.
Pat Robertson is cuckoo. Please just watch him on TV on any given day.
Please actually watch and listen to the people of W. Bush and the right wing. Do not take our word for it. Actually try to make polite contact with your local christianist radio guy.
You will see, and you will understand.
They hate smart people. They hate people who actually can write. That is where the idea of "Liberal Media" comes from. People who are smart enough to write, smart enough to organize their thoughts, make these dopuses madder than hell.
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Complaining about Reclining?...
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]People reclining in front of me never have bothered me. And nobody behind ever has asked me to de-re-cline. (I am fairly tall, with reasonably long legs.)
Is this the hip thing to complain about? Are you guys trying to prove what cool, globe-girdling fliers you are by jumping on this topic?
Is this a snobby thing? Like maybe you complain to your fellow travelers and fellow posters, in order to give the impression that you usually fly business class or first class, so that they will think you are cool?
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Personal Pride Should Enter Into This
[Read the article: To the attorney general's knowledge]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I know a guy who used to be a Navy Officer in a Central American country. He told me that he got tired and embarrassed with pretending he was stupid.
He was supposed to, ordered to, let drug smugglers get through, when he and his men knew damn well when and where they came in, when they easily could have intercepted them.
Instead of acting dopey and saying, "No, Senor/Si Senor," he quit. Mister Gonzales should have this sort of pride. Just quit, and shut up, Al. No need to be a hero, but no need to act stupid either.
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Rosemary Woods!
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Love grows
Where my Rosemary goes
And nobody knows
Anything."
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NeoCons' Next Generation
[Read the article: Al-Qaida's next generation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Young Republicans have resurfaced, despite the smashing election defeat and the exposure of their leaders' utter moral and rational turpitude.
NeoCon training camps in the nasty, dusty parts of Texas, and in fairly nice parts of the District of Columbia have been photographed by spy satellites and traffic copters. Young men with fat neckties and women with preposterous hairdoos have gathered in fundamentalist church basements across the Upper Midweast.
"It is clear that we are in extreme danger," say rational Americans.
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Does Limbaugh Insult Kids?
[Read the article: Is Rush Limbaugh next?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Imus called the girls and young ladies of Rutgers whores. It was not political, and you can leave out the racist component. Still you have a great case for dumping Imus: Insulting kids.
Does Rush do that? If he does, can him. But we have to put up with him if he insults and lies about adult public figures.
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Two Sides To Every Story?
[Read the article: Is Rush Limbaugh next?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Balance is not the end-all/be-all of public discourse. We are not obligated to balance truth with lies.
When we state the simple truths that Saddam really had no WMDs, and that he had no real connection with terrorism, and that life in Iraq is worse now than it was under Saddam, misguided people claim the right to present lies in the name of "balance."
But reality is not an opinion. And doing a good job of presenting a lie is not the same as finding the truth or seeking wisdom.
It appears that Americans need guidance about reality. In 2007, we cannot even agree about what is real.
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This Comment is Sooooo 1925!
[Read the article: Not that there's anything wrong with that]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The NeoCons and Republicans really want to restore Calvin Coolidge-Era America.