Letters to the Editor
Tideswimmer
Published Letters: 383 Editor's Choice: 47
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Hilarious!
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Really funny! I think, no, wait a minute. What was it about? Oh yeah, something called the Justice Department. A department devoted to, wait a minute, what's "Justice" again?
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Quit being sissies!
[Read the article: The other surge]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I say quit coddling them. I went to the movie last night and there was a really long commercial about how there's strong and then there's Army Strong(TM) which is really really strong, the strongest strong there is. Almost invincible strong. Once Army training is through with you, nothing can phase you anymore, the commercial said. There will be nothing on God's Green Earth (actual words) that can phase you because Nothing — NOTHING — is stronger than a US soldier. The commercial said so.
Oh, but now they get out of the army and it's all of a sudden "I was so stressed out!" and "You have no idea what it was like," this; and "waah waah whine whine where's my personal psychiatrist at tax payer's expense?" that; they sound like a bunch of crybaby liberals, "Where's my personal social worker? I need to cry about my problems. Waah waah waah."
Well cry me a river. You want some cheese with that whine? What happened to Army Strong(TM)? I already paid lots of good hard taxpayer money for that, and now I got to pay more for you to be crybaby weak? Give me a break!
I say, enough with the coddling, the touchy-feely hand holding. We paid for you once to be Army Strong and you treat our investment like a dirty torn up t-shirt. Well no more! You're out of Iraq now, so suck it up, bucko. The free ride is over. Time to quit your bellyaching and climb back on board the good old American Bootstrap Express, just like the rest of us.
P.S.- For the irony impaired, this was 100 percent sarcasm and contempt and scorn and derision for the endless series of lies that my beloved country has become.
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What RealName said
[Read the article: About that pardon ...]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Unfortunately, RealName has it exactly right. Libby will do his sleepy little stretch of time like the good little mafia soldier he is, and when he comes out, the payoff on the back end will be a nice cozy little life for himself, and that's already been arranged. He won't have to do anything except come out and call in his markers.
And that will be the whole of his punishment. Book deals, lobbying, "consulting fees," maybe a radio show, who knows? But the idea that he will actually have paid a debt to society? That he will maybe ever feel any blowback from the harm he has done? That any of these thugs ever will? We need to grow up and realize that will never ever happen. They live in a world where actions have no consequences. Nothing will ever happen to them, and tomorrow morning you will get up as always, go to work as always, and pray that your job hasn't been exported as always.
Hey, look everybody! It's Paris Hilton! Get her! Stone her! That will make us feel better!
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So much smoke
[Read the article: Another resignation at Justice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And yet there are still so many who claim there's no fire. At this rate, Gonzales will be the only one left at the department, and Bush will still be giving him a full vote of confidence.
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So True
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Council of Real Artistic Pronouncements.
Just in case anyone missed it.
This strip was hilarious, but for me kind of sad. I was so tragically unhip at 12. 1969 and I was all like Rolling Stones who? The Who who? I was listening my dad's old lounge type music, and I was busy memorizing Bill Cosby records and Alan Sherman's "My Son the Nut."
Whatever groundbreaking stuff was going on in 1969, I really didn't have any idea what it might have been. Are any 12 year olds really THAT tuned in to classic albums at the time, or is it only in hindsight that we can look back at that year and call it the benchmark year?
Or maybe I'm just making too much of what should just be (and is) a very funny strip.
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I Love L.A.
[Read the article: I love L.A.]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I Love L.A. I do. There are so many things I love about it. I grew up there, lived there all my life. But about 20 years ago, I realized that it was slowly driving me crazy. The negatives were weighing on me more than the positives were helping me.
I moved to a small city in Western Oregon and it is a much better fit for my personality. This does not make L.A. bad. There are still things I miss like crazy, and I now I find an excuse to go down there four or five times a year. I hit all my favorite activities, deal with the traffic the best I can, then go home again.
I'll be going back down again this summer. You'll find me there at Pink's introduce yourself and I'll buy you a dog!