Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 74 Editor's Choice: 6
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all gather round in a circle and... chew each others' faces off
[Read the article: "No, You Can't"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The video is funny, the debate in these comments is not. Also, it's stupid; it makes us look stupid as Democrats. There's a wonderful analysis by Matt Taibbi about the fuckups of our party pissing on our heads and calling it rain (http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print/12725/). You know what I think would really transform this surge? If we paid some fucking attention to the Other surge, the bad one. If the front runner went back to work for a day and introduced legislation demanding an end to the war now.
Why couldn't he? What's Harry Reid going to say? Oh we'll never get that out of committee, we'll never get enough votes. Fuck that noise. As a senator you're one of the supposedly 545 most powerful people in the world (house+ senate+ supremes+ unitary executive). You can do pretty much as you please, believe it or not. Who's going to punish him? If he introduced that legislation would his constituents really vote against him in the next election (assuming he didn't win the white house)? And as the front runner for the party most likely to win the general election you're in line to move to the number one spot quick snap. Why wait? Why fucking wait? Plus, if he introduced it, he could speak about it on a national stage for free. He's already opposed to the war. That's on record--no one is going to hold that against him at his rallies and fundraisers.
If Hillary is so capable and ready right now why not show how capable and strong she is by introducing this legislation herself? What strength, resolve and leadership that would show! It would steal her opponent's thunder a little bit, show him how she can move shit forward in the congress in ways he can only talk about.
But he and Hillary've already voted for more funding.
I begrudgingly like Hillary, and I really like Barack. But none of this stuff means shit if these people won't talk about ending the war now. It's just chickenshit idiocy! So what if you're vetoed. Better to have tried and get vetoed by a mentally defective theocrat than to sit on your hands and write said defective a series of blank checks for my daughter and son to pay off working for a Chinese banking conglomerate in their sugar mines or somesuch.
I voted in my caucuses, and did so gladly for Barack. But these people need to show some fucking spine now while they can get away with it. Lead. Now.
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I happen to love it
[Read the article: Creator of Hillary music video insists he's on her side]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I mean the song is ridiculous and the dancing is worse, but the truth is it's so dorky as to cross into that realm of lovable. I'm sorry, I know people hate the post-ironic appreciation of the adorkable that I believe my generation has begun to adopt as we enter midlife. But I think this is very appealing. It's not nearly as smooove as the will.i.am thing, and it lacks lyric grace, and the editing is funny, but Hillary was never smooth anyway. If she ran this on TV with "I'm Hillary Clinton and I approve this message" it would humanize her for me way more than almost crying in New Hampshire did. Alas that is not to be.
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well DUH
[Read the article: Pakistan's censors crash YouTube for everyone]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Forgive my outburst but the internet worked just fine, thank you very much. That there was all this crucial information in one vital location is what was exposed to vulnerability of the Pakistani censors.
In other words, the model of decentralization and buoyancy of data "able to survive a nuclear war" is working. But YouTube isn't the internet.
It's a web site (yes yes servers and all that but it's still one unified service entity in the wider net) which is a single point of failure, a hidden fortress, a single Norad of user data. It is not decentralized and impervious and it suffers the same weaknesses the "internet was designed to circumvent."
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the bandwagon's plenty big
[Read the article: The audacity of narcissism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Skylark, and really any "broken" Dems, I'll personally keep the seats warm for you. You don't like the mud in the primaries? You're gonna need somewhere high and dry to sit when the GOP shit machine gets started, regardless of our nominee. We who have already decided we like Obama's chances better than Clinton's will welcome you aboard when the time is right. It's too bad to hear about other Obama supporters getting you down.
But seriously? You're going to shoot yourself in the foot like that with ol' Hunnerd Years Johnny and his band of brothers? Bush 3-D is not going to fix your bitterness. Come on up. Come on up.
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I am not afraid of a sports metaphor here
[Read the article: Let 'em duke it out]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Am I the first or only one who noticed that maybe, just maybe, if both candidates give it their all, we might be treated to a really great contest in the general election? That perhaps like the last game of the 2007 regular season played by the Patriots and Giants, the mighty striving of the Democrats could be rewarded with victory in the one game that matters?
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well, we should probably care about a couple colors at least
[Read the article: Geraldine Ferraro still needs to apologize]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mr. E if your presidential candidate is purple, it means he has something lodged in his throat or an otherwise obstructed airway and needs immediate medical attention.
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mmmmmm mmff mffmm mmm
[Read the article: "True Enough": More on truthiness and Apple fanboys]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that's good Ray Ozzie balls! mmmmm. . . Steve Ballmer! mmmmmm! :-D
Sorry Farhad, I had to do it. Good stuff so far, I'm getting more convinced to buy your book, man. Just excerpt a couple more chapters. Or maybe you could go Cory Doctorow on it and CC the whole shebang? Wouldn't that be nice for us penny pinchers?