Letters to the Editor
Paul Daniel Ash
Published Letters: 830 Editor's Choice: 3
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Meh.
[Read the article: Michael O'Hanlon's defense of his pro-war record]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They round up someone like Glenn? All hell would break loose.
I'm not that convinced. One smartass blogger gets disappeared and then... what? All heck might break loose, but not much more. WT writes a letter. I bitch about it on my blog for a day or two. Adnoto gives everybody else hell for not marching on Langley.
I can't say I'm super worried about a major blogger roundup anytime soon, but I don't think the power structure is all that concerned about anything breaking loose if they decide they need to take such an action.
This is America, after all. If it ain't on TV, it ain't "reality."
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@Ché
[Read the article: The California marriage decision and basic civics]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is Italy's changeable system [...] all that terrible for Italians?
Yes. For those Italians whose last name is not Berlusconi, that is...
The largest industry is the mafia. The two national sports are soccer and the scapegoating of immigrants. The economy's in free-fall and half the country's buried in garbage.
Things, actually, could be worse than they are in the U.S.
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"listening to the Dead Kennedys"
[Read the article: The California marriage decision and basic civics]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You mean this?
I am Emperor Ronald Reagan
Born again with fascist cravings
Still, you made me president
Human rights will soon go 'way
I am now your Shah today
Now I command all of you
Now you're going to pray in school
I'll make sure they're Christian too
California Über alles
Über alles California . . .
You'll go quietly to boot camp
They'll shoot you dead, make you a man
Don't you worry, it's for a cause
Feeding global corporations' claws
Die on our brand new poison gas
El Salvador or Afghanistan
Making money for President Reagan
And all the friends of President Reagan
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Article Two
[Read the article: The California marriage decision and basic civics]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]DOMA is a law that Obama would apparently like to do away with
Interesting how the assumption is that laws are things that presidents can just "do away with."
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@GThrasher
[Read the article: The California marriage decision and basic civics]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn Greenwald's "sexual status" is "married."
His sexual orientation, as the overwhelming majority of his readers knew well before you so comically tried to out him, is "homosexual."
I am not sure how his status as a legally married gay man creates "conflict" or "bias." This is not a law review or a research paper. It's a blog for goodness' sake! Anyone who reads a blog and doesn't assume the writer has some opinion about the subject matter lives in some other plane of "reality."
It's really hard to read your continuing insistence on this point without thinking of a little kid hollering "Glenn is a fa-ag! Glenn is a fa-ag!" like it's going to get anybody mad.
Pretty pathetic.
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@GThrasher
[Read the article: The California marriage decision and basic civics]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn has never claimed he was a "journalist" or a "gay activist." He's a blogger, G. He writes books. And as you continually, ceaselessly note as if it had relevance, he is a big homo.
Can we please move on?
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Actually...
[Read the article: The California marriage decision and basic civics]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My theme has remained the same all day in here
... we'd noticed.
Other than making the same assertion over and over again, could you try explaining how - exactly how - it would be different if Glenn had begin the post with
Disclosure: I am a gay American in a civil union recognized by my country but not by my own. Now, that a law invalidated by a court is supported by a large majority is not an argument supporting the conclusion that the court's decision was wrong.
This post is not - not, not, not, a thousand times not - a gay man's reflection on how the ruling makes him feel. It's the assessment of a Constitutional law attorney of a basic premise on the workings of government, and how it is misunderstood or willfully misinterpreted by pundits.
Please, at long last sir, explain yourself.
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@GThrasher
[Read the article: The California marriage decision and basic civics]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am waiting for a customer to get his equipment online for me, so I will continue bashing my head against this wall.
I will accept - for argument's sake only - that Glenn Greenwald is in point of fact a "gay activist" and only you and he are aware of this fact. In that case, how does it change his factual statement that judicial decisions have to do with matters of law and not public opinion?
Please feel free to use commas in your reply, by the way. It's the little curly thing under the <.
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My summer reading
[Read the article: The California marriage decision and basic civics]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Moose... if you ever put your anecdotes to paper or blog, please let us know. That was a keeper.
You could call it "How to win fiends and influence people..."
(ducking)
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Lies?
[Read the article: The ugliest election]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As the AP report put it, "In the review of all the state's disputed ballots, Gore edged ahead under all six scenarios for counting all undervotes and overvotes statewide." In other words, he got more votes in Florida than George Bush by almost every conceivable counting standard. Gore won under a strict-counting scenario and he won under a loose-counting scenario. He won if you count "hanging chads" and he won if you counted "dimpled chads." He won if you count a dimpled chad only in the presence of another dimpled chad on the same ballot -- the so-called "Palm Beach" standard. He even won if you counted only a fully-punched chad. He won if you counted partially-filled oval on an optical scan and he won if you counted only a fully-filled optical scan. He won if you fairly counted the absentee ballots. No matter how you count it, if everyone who legally voted in Florida had had a chance to see their vote counted, Al Gore is our president.
http://mediamatters.org/altercation/?f=h_column
http://www.aei.org/docLib/20040526_KeatingPaper.pdf
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@NOB
[Read the article: The ugliest election]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're looking at a media account. Why are you afraid to read the report?
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Maybe
[Read the article: Israel imposes a 10-year ban on American critic of Israeli policies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...we could get the Hitler-baiting out of the way early in the comments thread?
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hopes, dashed
[Read the article: Israel imposes a 10-year ban on American critic of Israeli policies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]sigh
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Io
[Read the article: Israel imposes a 10-year ban on American critic of Israeli policies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You might want to take a look at Amity's previous letters.
His/her touch is rather deft. Also, I suspect that large quantities of caffeine are involved...
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"Cyberdenijad"
[Read the article: Israel imposes a 10-year ban on American critic of Israeli policies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I LOLed! I actually LOLed. Thanks for that, Chris.
(actually, I LOLed three times, thus: lol,lol,lol)
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This comments thread, in pictures
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlp5INAvV8U
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