Letters to the Editor
Paul Daniel Ash
Published Letters: 830 Editor's Choice: 3
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Obama picture was on Freeper sites all weekend
[Read the article: Obama shows that dismissing slimy right-wing attacks is not difficult]
[Read more letters about this article: Here](Sorry guys. I am just fascinated by this little teapot-tempest)
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obama-wore-muslim-gear-during-kenya-trip
"Obama's Shocking al-Qaeda Link," ack.
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The PDA Corollary to the Sugarman Rule
[Read the article: Obama shows that dismissing slimy right-wing attacks is not difficult]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As time increases between UT postings, all comment threads will inevitably converge to a pissing contest about baseball, race, and the drug war.
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to all those mentioned or alluded to in my previous post...
[Read the article: Obama shows that dismissing slimy right-wing attacks is not difficult]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...let it be known that I was taking the piss in the stream of consciousness.
I try not to take myself too seriously, but, failing that.... I'll settle for not taking other people too seriously.
Peace, and barbecue dinner, to all.
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Shooter Christ
[Read the article: John King with Mike McConnell: Rare journalistic honesty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Posts like this are really childish.
And yet Shooter rushes to read them, day after day, post after post, impatiently clicking the link to see what latest childishness Greenwald has cooked up, and hurries to post his corrective, freely sharing his wisdom for we benighted people, sheeplike idiots whom he clearly feels nothing but disdain.
It's positively Christlike.
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Samba de uma nota só
[Read the article: John King with Mike McConnell: Rare journalistic honesty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Aych, I'm not suggesting you aren't welcome here - certainly you have your own unique contribution even when you sort of shoehorn every discussion into the Wo(S)D - but have you considered starting your own blog, and developing a readership on this issue?
Again, I'm not trying to give you the bum's rush. It's just that you aren't the "only person who wants to talk about this..." - it's just that other things are being talked about here.
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Heparin?
[Read the article: John King with Mike McConnell: Rare journalistic honesty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]or Halperin?
sorry :-)
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Special case of the PDA Corollary to the Sugarman Rule
[Read the article: John King with Mike McConnell: Rare journalistic honesty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Usually it takes more than a couple hours before the discussion devolves into le concours pissoir.
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Aychy
[Read the article: John King with Mike McConnell: Rare journalistic honesty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]With all due respect, man... if there were a comments thread where our opinion on the War on (Some) Drugs was in context, you'd probably clear the room.
I have the feeling that if I were to engage you on the subject, that I'd hardly be able to get a word in edgewise, and I'd just avoid engaging - you are literally that bombastic on the topic. It's not a quality that makes you that much of an interesting interlocutor.
Sorry, dude. I mean, it may be that you're just interested in being prolix for its own sake - in which case, you know, knock yourself out... but you might want to cut down on the complaints that no one else wants to take about the subject you've decided to monopolise.
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Yo Aychy
[Read the article: John King with Mike McConnell: Rare journalistic honesty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]if you make certain "serious" posters here uncomfortable they will start to harp on your personality.
Rather as you are doing now.
You misunderstand me. I'm neither harping, nor attacking "you" personally... all I can react to are the letters on the screen I see above your pseud. That I find your words rather repetitive, restating the same obvious, fairly nonremarkable point ad infinitum is merely my opinion of some words. I have, quite obviously, no idea who "you" are in your non-pseudonymous life... nor, quite frankly, a whole lot of interest.
On the basis of that opinion, of course, you are free to impute all sorts of things about my character, but I'm not doing that to you.
That's just your opinion.
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@omooex (sp? wish there was a "reply" function here...)
[Read the article: Majority of Israelis want to negotiate with Hamas]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I used to think Labour governments were able to get away with things Likud governments never could... that was before the last Sharon government.
In general, though, either government seems to be pretty well to the right of the people, much like some other Western democracy I know...
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brilliant riposte!
[Read the article: Majority of Israelis want to negotiate with Hamas]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If I found myself agreeing in any way with Noam Chomsky, it would be time to start searching for a suitable mental institution.
Mr Zenwick, any substantive critique to offer, or do you feel that the syllables nome-CHAWMMMM-skee, uttered with enough derision, are argument enough?
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@Gator90
[Read the article: Majority of Israelis want to negotiate with Hamas]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's kind of hard to note that you're pretty much stuck on write-only; that Glenn's question about how you would adjudge response to an invasion of your country and wholesale killing of your fellow citizens is one you do not deign worthy of response.
Or are Palestinian civilians the only ones whom it is at least somewhat OK to murder?
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"part of the problem"
[Read the article: Majority of Israelis want to negotiate with Hamas]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For the life of me, I can't decide if people are being cute or are really so stupid as to believe it when they say that for every complex, intractable problem in human society there are no greater (and no fewer) than two diametrically opposed positions one can take.
Either you're part of the solution or your part of the problem. Either you love the war or hate the troops. Either you want everyone to be spied on, all the time, or you want Osama bin Laden to cut your grandmother's head off.
It's as if, as a society, we got to the third grade, decided we liked it just fine, and outlawed nuance.
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@Gator90
[Read the article: Majority of Israelis want to negotiate with Hamas]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There is simply no other interpretation.
There is, even more simply, reading his words, which requires no interpretation, just mere literacy. Glenn Greenwald has stated time and again that he rejects the premise of your overbroad, Manichaean, black-and-white, right-and-wrong, my-way-or-the-highway constructions and has attempted to tell you what he actually thinks.
Twisting the words of your interlocutor is a poor way to claim the moral high ground in any argument... but I suspect that's not your purpose here, is it?
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huh
[Read the article: Some hateful, radical ministers -- white evangelicals -- are acceptable]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]he scribbles a whole column detailing chapter and verse of some other person's evil deeds and then sort of backhands Farahkan in the same class without any attribution. That way he gets to implicitly support the NoI
I did my damnedest - even diagramming the sentence - to follow that little screed... but I still can't tell how you made the leap from "backhand[ing]" to "implicitly support[ing]."
I think that's technically referred to as "making shit up."
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I'll take a crack at that
[Read the article: Some hateful, radical ministers -- white evangelicals -- are acceptable]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If our cultural animosities are so ancient then why are they so much more prevalent here than in the Old Countries?
I always saw it as the culture warriors self-selecting themselves out of European society through their migration to the New Word. Thus, we get prayer in schools and they get politicians fighting to keep God out of the Euroconstitution.
Or, as Bill Murray said in Stripes, "our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world."