Letters to the Editor
Paul Daniel Ash
Published Letters: 830 Editor's Choice: 3
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Pamela Troy?
[Read the article: National Review reporter caught fabricating; where is the "liberal media"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Pamela Troy asked Bebop if he could borrow his donkey. Bebop, not wanting to lend his donkey to the rude commenter, told her, "I would love to loan you my donkey but only yesterday my brother came from the next town to use it to carry his wheat to the mill to be ground. The donkey sadly is not here."
Pamela was disappointed. But she thanked Bebop and began to walk away.
Just as he got a few steps away, Bebop's donkey, which was in the back of his house all the time, let out a big bray.
Pamela turned to Bebop and said, "Bebop, I thought you told me that your donkey was not here.
Bebop turned to the commenter and said, "My friend, who are you going to believe? Me or the donkey?
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@totallyblase
[Read the article: Time magazine refused to publish responses to Klein's false smears]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe we should concentrate on the really scary stuff . . .
Nobody's stopping you, man.
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@anonymous
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mayor Frank Rizzo even employed aerial bombardment against uppity black people.
That was Wilson Goode:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE
Rizzo deserves no defense from civilized people; however, he used bulldozers, not helicopters. FWIW.
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"there are a few good poets"
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There are indeed, 'bop.
Few, and thin on the ground, but there they are.
In the place that is my own place, whose earth
I am shaped in and must bear, there is an old tree growing,
a great sycamore that is a wondrous healer of itself.
Fences have been tied to it, nails driven into it,
hacks and whittles cut in it, the lightning has burned it.
There is no year it has flourished in
that has not harmed it. There is a hollow in it
that is its death, though its living brims whitely
at the lip of the darkness and flows outward.
Over all its scars has come the seamless white
of the bark. It bears the gnarls of its history
healed over. It has risen to a strange perfection
in the warp and bending of its long growth.
It has gathered all accidents into its purpose.
It has become the intention and radiance of its dark fate.
It is a fact, sublime, mystical and unassailable.
In all the country there is no other like it.
I recognize in it a principle, an indwelling
the same as itself, and greater, that I would be ruled by.
I see that it stands in its place and feeds upon it,
and is fed upon, and is native, and maker.
-- Wendell Berry
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@LWM
[Read the article: Harry Reid's FISA games]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for the link, best of luck on your maintenance (wear a grounding wriststrap!), but if Bush has ever read Wilber, I'll eat my hat, or rather go buy a hat and then eat it.
I know Ph.D's who can't read his stuff. I have been working my way through Sex, Ecology, Spirituality for the better part of a year...
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"He's acting just like a beaten..."
[Read the article: Harry Reid -- compare and contrast]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think Harry Reid is using his leadership power to do exactly what he wants to do: increase and augment the power in government hands.
You can call him lots of things (the wannabe gangster lingo doesn't work for me, but that's your own getout), but I don't think you can say he's "weak" or "ineffectual." He is having exactly the effect he wants to have. i think we're way past the point where we can act like they're mere victims.
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"a cur, female version"
[Read the article: Harry Reid -- compare and contrast]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Harry Reid is a pitbull on the pantleg of liberty. He is the doer, not the do-ee.
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@HRH
[Read the article: Anatomy and significance of Monday's FISA victory]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is said (by those who say things) that misery loves company. The current ongoing debacle leaves many who lean to the left in sheer misery. It's simply human nature to try and perhaps alleviate the misery by sharing a bit of it.
I feel that way all the time, man. Generally, though, I go tell someone who cares rather than pissing in the cornflakes of shiny happy pwoggy blogger commenters.
I have Arthur Silber for that. :-)
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Who is Grima Wormtongue?
[Read the article: Anatomy and significance of Monday's FISA victory]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bill Owen.
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"Trying to be politically correct is difficult..."
[Read the article: Media hostility toward anti-establishment candidates]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's actually not, unless you think of it as something different than treating others as you'd like to be treated.
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"Why would Reid honor GOP holds but not Dodd[']s?"
[Read the article: Reid and company target the true enemy: "Dodd and his allies"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm thinking it's because he really DOES want telecom immunity and really DOESN'T agree with Dodd. It doesn't seem crazy to me at all, just wrong.
I think that William of Ockham was on to something...
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@WT
[Read the article: Reid and company target the true enemy: "Dodd and his allies"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I cop to a similar apocalyptic stance as your interlocutors, but based more on aesthetics and emotion than any rigorous historical analysis. It seems to me that hegemons fall, sooner or later... and that when they do, it seems to be as a result of internal rot and decay rather than an attack from without.
I do see the breakup of a continental nation as an ultimate good, though one likely to be attended with much suffering. A number of smaller, chastened, UK-like countries would be a fine outcome indeed.
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And then there's this...
[Read the article: Reid and company target the true enemy: "Dodd and his allies"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_HZk46GiXY
"We want to set people on fire."
"I want to see laws change."
I CAN HAZ APOCLYSPE?
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affectionately y'alls
[Read the article: Reid and company target the true enemy: "Dodd and his allies"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]@bop: You wouldn't believe what I just came back from doing...
@RMP: not trying to be overly literal, but what does it mean to you to "win" in this context? Genuinely asking here. I mean, even though I feel like the Balkans taught us -if nothing else- that partition doesn't work... I'd sure like these people to have their own country and leave me alone. I don't want to "convert" them. I don't want to disenfranchise them. I just want God to bless and keep them, far from me.
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ack
[Read the article: Reid and company target the true enemy: "Dodd and his allies"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]RMP, I thought you were referring to the YouTube about the gay bar prayer sieges, but thank you for a much more thoughtful post than my Friday night drive-by deserved.
I am in agreement with you on Iraq, FWIW. Unshitting the bed is a literal impossibility at this point.
A good Solstice night to you, and to all.