Letters to the Editor
nitestik
Published Letters: 148 Editor's Choice: 17
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It is amazing, isn't it?
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tom Tomorrow's colloquy between the right-wingnut and the penguin is spot on, and typical of many I've had over the last six years. Fortunately, I always play the part of the penguin.
Unfortunately, playing that part hasn't enabled me to understand how seemingly intelligent people can ignore the facts, or will deny what are clearly uncontroverted facts.
I remember a time when there would be no debate about a common set of facts. Today, however, our government and its lapdogs in the media persist in perpetuating the myth that everything is open to debate, from global warming to WMDs in Iraq to Bush's non-response to Katrina and 9/11.
I've given up trying to figure it out, however. So instead of banging my head on the wall, I just hand out bumper stickers that say this:
"IF YOU'RE NOT OUTRAGED, THEN YOU'RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION."
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There Is One Thing With Which I Agree:
[Read the article: Abortion under siege in Mississippi]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some things are just black and white. Like hypocrisy.
Ever see any of these fat-assed white men get knocked up? If they could, abortion would be a sacrament.
Ever see any of these parents WITH THEIR LITTLE KIDS (and how creepy is that!) with their "I AM PRO-LIFE" signs standing outside the death house at Mississippi State Prison at Parchman Farm when the State of Mississippi decides to execute an inmate?
No. And that's because for them, "murder" is really just a matter of timing. It's hypocrisy, in black and white.
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An Arrest Really Can Open The Mind!
[Read the article: Scooter Libby's fuzzy-memory defense]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Isn't it ironic that the same people who denounce evolution and global warming as "junk science" are now embracing junk science in an effort to avoid responsibility for criminal conduct?
This charade reminds me of the difference between a liberal and a conservative: A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, and a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
Good ol' Scooter became a liberal the moment they put on the cuffs. The only question now is whether the presiding judge, Reggie Walton, will be able to see through Libby's bullshit.
Bad news, Scootie: Walton is one of those "law and order" "strict constructionist" guys, appointed by your former boss . . . George W. Bush.
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There Is A Solution
[Read the article: Senate has writers' block on Iraq intel report]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Harry Reid needs to do what he did nine months ago: Invoke Rule XXI of the Senate. It provides as follows:
Rule XXI: Session with Closed Doors
1. On a motion made and seconded to close the doors of the Senate, on the discussion of any business which may, in the opinion of a Senator, require secrecy, the Presiding Officer shall direct the galleries to be cleared; and during the discussion of such motion the doors shall remain closed.
2. When the Senate meets in closed session, any applicable provisions of rules XXIX and XXXI, including the confidentiality of information shall apply to any information and to the conduct of any debate transacted.
Only by majority vote does the Senate open its doors again. The last time the republicans caved in two hours, and all we got out of it were lies from Pat Roberts.
I've written to Senator Reid and implored him to do it again, only this time, don't agree to open the doors until Pat Roberts shows us the report. That ought to tighten some sphincters.
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Why I Cancelled My Subscription To The New Republic
[Read the article: Marty Peretz and the fringe pro-war movement]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Two Words: Martin Peretz.
The man is to the progressive movement what Stephen Glass is to the truth. Get it, Marty?
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What Drugs Have Made Joe Lieberman So Delusional?
[Read the article: Lieberman: I'm bringing people together]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I asked myself that question when I read that old Pal Joey is, AFTER ONLY 18 YEARS, going to finally rescue the Senate from the partisan hellhole in which it currently finds itself.
Newly emboldened by what his dear friend Dick Cheney calls the "al Qaeda types" who voted against him, Lieberman professes that he and he alone will provide "a new politics that will bring us together to get things done for the people we serve instead of just playing partisan political games."
Yeah, right. When I think of taking the high road and rejection of "partisan political games," the names that immediately come to mind are Dick "Change The Tone" Cheney, Chief Consoler to Lieberman Karl "Snakes On A Plame" Rove [thanks to Jon Stewart] and George "The Decider - Dead or Alive" Bush.
What drugs have made Lieberman so delusional? You've got to wonder. But then I remembered what Lieberman said about his showing in the Iowa caucuses in 2004: "We're in a dead heat for third place!"
He finished fifth! Or perhaps he had just consumed a fifth. Whatever it was, the man was delusional. And over the last week, he's proven that things haven't changed a bit.
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What's Wrong With The Readership?
[Read the article: Honey, I read "The Stranger"!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]After reading the overwhelmingly negative comments to Bayard's column, I began to wonder "What's wrong with Salon's readership"? Don't they get satire or irony anymore? Have their parody genes gone dormant?
Then it occurred to me: It's no longer possible to successfully parody the Bush Administration, for it is a parody of itself.
Can you imagine Bill Clinton, the former Rhodes Scholar, actually having to orchestrate some pathetic scheme to give people the impression that he was smart? Now, while Bill Clinton had his faults, no one could legitimately accuse him of being a dunce.
And yet despite the fact that Bush has proven over and over again that he is a dunce, despite the fact that he has actually reveled in his intellectual mediocrity (remember the commencement address at Yale?), and despite his own pronoucements about how newspaperin' and bookifyin' are for elite, effite little pansies, Tony Snow Job trots out to tell us about Camus.
They are are parody of themselves. Which is why I'm sending this article to every right winger I know. Only I'm telling them that Bayard writes for Fox News, that way they'll know it's true.