Letters to the Editor
Tideswimmer
Published Letters: 383 Editor's Choice: 47
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Thanks for the example, Hairhead
[Read the article: "Sicko"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for sharing your illuminating experience. Let me say that my experience was that I once had an accident at work where my right index finger was crushed and split open by a piece of machinery from the tip of my finger down into my palm.
It really hurt a lot.
My boss bundled me into a car and we went to one... two... three emergency rooms before we came to one that took his insurance, which I'm sure, knowing him, was the very cheapest he could get.
That was a lot of fun, let me tell you.
The cost of the whole injury, had it been up to me to pay, would have been at least a year's salary. Probably more.
Unfortunately, here is the typical American's self-centered perspective on the story you told. "What? So some guy can't go out for a jog without falling down and breaking an elbow? And so now I HAVE TO PAY MORE TAXES? Where's the personal responsibility? Whine whine whine? Bitch bitch bitch! I haven't been to a doctor in 20 years, and I ignored a weird looking mole on my arm the whole time because I couldn't afford the tests and now I got skin cancer, but you don't hear me complaining. If you don't want to break an elbow, then next time TRY NOT FALLING DOWN FOR A CHANGE! Ever think of that?"
And etc., and so on.
American's are strange creatures, getting stranger.
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Blast O' Cysts!
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, destroying blastocysts is a blast! There's nothing we liberals love more than showing our utter disregard for life. Oh, wait, there is one more thing. I love hiring illegal aliens to do the destroying. If I can destroy a blastocyst and put an American out of work at the same time, then it's just gravy on the pancakes as far as I'm concerned.
Conservative Jones is a clever detective indeed.
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It will end with pitchforks
[Read the article: The imperial vice presidency]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Geez, it's like no one has ever seen a movie before.
The Democrats can subpoena, and investigate, and impeach all they want. It doesn't matter. This gang isn't going to go anywhere. They will not step down, they will not relinquish, they will not yield.
It's been an all or nothing, devil take the hindmost, assault on the Constitution from the very beginning. Cheney simply doesn't buy any of this crap about balance of power and checks and balances. Period. Power belongs to those who can grab it. Period.
So let's say that Cheney has now been impeached. He will just laugh. He will not leave. That's not a speculative sentence, a "supposing if" scenario. He is not going to leave, because you've already forgotten the prime rule. The will of the people doesn't mean a thing.
Somewhere, sometime, the American people are going to have to show up with pitchforks and torches. We are going to have to storm Frankenstein's castle. We're going to have to show up en masse, hundreds of thousands, swarming over the bunker like driver ants. And there will be consequences. If you don't think a man this seriously deranged doesn't have some kind of scorched earth policy already in place, then you haven't been paying attention.
Remember, the Constitution is nothing but a piece of paper designed to keep superior people from attaining their true and rightful greatness. Cheney and the current cabal are out to change that silly notion forever. That's the endgame. To reference another movie, "Be afraid. Be very afraid."
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RE: Am I Evil
[Read the article: The imperial vice presidency]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anonymous,
I am absolutely positive that you are not the only person who has had that thought cross his/her mind.
Does that make you Evil? I personally don't think so. I'm not a religious person particularly, but if some has done great harm to us, and is likely to continue doing so in the future, I don't see any moral obligation to pray/wish for that person's continued long life and happiness.
Not that I think that happiness is something that Dick Cheney can really experience at this point because he is so controlled by his need to dominate that which can never be dominated. There will ALWAYS be some new challenge thwarting his will. Just as in Iraq, victory will never be achieved because it can't be achieved. One can only redefine victory and hang up a banner saying "Mission Accomplished."
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Brad Bird is talented
[Read the article: "Ratatouille"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The thing I like about Brad Bird's animated films is, as Stephanie points out, that he doesn't really make animated films. His shot selections and camera placements are pretty much as you would see done in "regular" movies. It's almost like watching a film shot with standard lenses, with corresponding depth of focus and whatever qualities those lenses would bring to the way a shot looks. He makes regular mainstream movies; they just happen to be made on a computer.
To the person who admitted the film made you cry, you should check out "The Iron Giant." I like to think I'm a tough guy, but the end of that movie, well... excuse me. I'm not crying, I just have something in my eye... gotta go!
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Bong Hits 4 Jesus
[Read the article: Free speech for the rich and powerful]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Or, as my 76 year-old mother asked me: "What's a bong?"
Or, as I'm prone to wonder, what if the banner had said something like "Jesus Christ: Believe or Die" or "Jesus Says Bomb Iran Now!" and the principal had them take it down. Anyone want to bet that Roberts' concerns once actual death and harm and carnage were openly advocated would magically disappear?