Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 116 Editor's Choice: 10
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Humanity is not a GOP priority
[Read the article: The GOP's crowded closet]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tolerance and basic humanity? There's no chance the right would dare alienating it's lockstep-Bush-supporting-anti-gay-pro-war-with-anyone-brown 27% with that.
Let's encourage them to keep slipping on their own hypocrisy and falling face first into toilets.
It's lurid media, but if we had it in the past we might've been spared the civil rights abuses of the self-hating J. Edgar Hoover.
We don't need fascism-lite. We need all americans to see the Neo Con manifestion of the GOP for what it is: The party of hate.
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Bush also Betrays Reagan by turning what should have been a police action into all out war
[Read the article: How Bush betrays Reagan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Reaganomics was fairytale thinking with disasterous consequences, growing the largest deficit in U.S. history. (Bill Clinton later turned it into a surplus).
But Bush/Cheney-economics is far more sinister. The cronies--Haliburton, Kellog Brown & Root, Lockheed, etc-- are encouraged to invade the treasury just like in the Reagan years. But unlike Reagan, Bush is using every weapon made to make the Mideast into an even larger scale and more permanent war zone.
When the Terrorists bombed the Marine barracks in Lebananon, Reagan wisely cut and run. 9/11 was a far worse attack, but step back and look at how Bush let 19 highjackers (all from nations we have interestingly NOT attacked) turn the U.S. completely upside down. A shredded constitution. A depleted, overstretched military in Iraq. Overtuned geneva conventions. And, again, immense deficits.
I disliked Reagan very much, but I believe he would not have destroyed our country by invading both the treasury and Iraq (and soon Iran). Reagan would have seen what was needed--police action to destroy terrorist networks. Instead Bush has given us all out war that has given the Al Qaida more fame, credibility and recruiting power than it deserved.
In short, Reagan saw wisdom in detented and engagement and would not have risked everything good about America it's taken 200 years to build.
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The problem is: we know ourselves and aren't honest with each other before we get married
[Read the article: Lately I've been kissing women I'm not married to]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For me it's the trust issue. And the respect issue.
Don't get married unless you're ready to stop kissing and fucking others. Or be honest with yourself and your partner before you say 'I do' because you know yourself--if you can't be faithful, you know it and you won't. Have the balls to say it up front and make an arrangement. If it's one you both can live with, you've got a partner.
If one can't live with it such 'modern' arrangement, then you need to keep looking and respect your lover enough not to bullshit her into thinking this is to 'honor until death do you part,' when it's really 'to mostly honor except when I'm just feeling a bit mischievous and horny.'
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A Who's in the what now?
[Read the article: A wireless touch-screen iPod. A video Nano. And a much cheaper iPhone]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh, gadgets! Neat.
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We must enact these changes:
[Read the article: The endless, meaningless blather from the Washington establishment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1. Campaign finance reform/public financing of elections--NO corporate money
2. Ending of media monopolies/laws restricting media consolidation
I GUARANTEE we will see no change in the patterns pointed out by Mr. Greenwald until both of these happen. And they will only happen if we demand them.
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Keep telling truth to the pudgy right wing face
[Read the article: The Fred and Rudy show]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You rock Joan.
You and Arianna H. make me proud to be an American Liberal.
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Troops: The chicken hawks claim to speak for you. Do they?
[Read the article: American war culture in a nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Troops: support for republicans is support for the Kagan policy of war without end, war without relief. I understand that for lifestyle reasons, Republicans are generally more appealing to folks in the military, but take a good hard look at the people who take cover behind you and take credit for your hard work, bravery and medals.
Liberals, soldiers, everyone--we need to call out these Kagans, republicans and necoons for what they are: cowardly chickenhawks and frilly fightin' keyboardists.
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Nashville
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Never understimate the American appeal of tits and pricks with tiny talent.
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Genius commentatrix
[Read the article: Sex and the presidency]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Samantha Bee. Very Daily Show, but with an added intellectual + silly + biting SCTV thing. Um, yeah. Basically, all men within my area code have a crush on this woman very married to Jason Jones who, by the way, is also great when interviewing democrats in Erie, Ohio.
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Start running print and TV ads: "Republicans vote against the troops"
[Read the article: All in a day's work]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is the perfect time to take out a full page NYT ad displaying the names of the Repbublicans that voted against the troops. Webb introduced a bill allowing more recoup and family time for troops between tours and repbublicans had the gall to vote against it.
If liberals and democrats don't pounce on this opportunity to prove to the country that republicans do not support the troops, we are fools.
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Reasons to Love Texas
[Read the article: Texans turn against Bush's war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bill Moyers
Dixie Chicks
Walter Cronkite
Molly Ivins
Austin
Ann Richards
The State is so damn big
It's shape makes a great belt buckle
SXSW
The Big Boys (1980s liberal punk rockers)
Lydon Johnson's Great Society (failed, but great idea)
Lady Bird Johson
Driving a convertible while drinking a beer and shooting a pistol, legally
Swagger
Howard Hughes
Senator Ralph Yarborough
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Anon 11:58 has a point but,
[Read the article: The courage of Mayor Jerry Sanders]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As Chris Rock once said "Everybody got at least a gay cousin..." so eventually the even the backward thinkers better realize that social courage and basic humanity IS "taking care of your own."
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How about this analysis: Dry Drunk
[Read the article: Bush's stairway to paradise]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I love these long, complex analyses of Bush's character and motivations--tens of thousands of pages since 2002. Coming from a family of alcoholics, everything he's done has always made perfect sense to me, given who and what he is. Can you say "dry drunk?"
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Congress shall pass no law
[Read the article: Number of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Abridging freedom of speech.
Instead of the 10 commandments posted in schools maybe we need mandatory weekly congressional readings of the constitutions.
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We need a liberal Karl Rove and I'm available
[Read the article: Profiles in Democratic cowardice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gary Owen, you make a good point about the general street smarts of never criticizing the military uniform because it's a public relations disaster. That said--Repbublicans and right wingers win because the NEVER disavow the most heinous things their flacks and followers say and write, and it's perceived as balls.
The ballsy thing for democrats to do would have been to just publicly quote the constitution "Congress shall make no law abridging free speech..." and to say it's an insult to General Petraeus to pass a resolution that implies he's so weak he can't protect himself.
And THEN go right back on the attack against republicans. NEVER stay on the defensive.
Where is our liberal Karl Rove? These things seem so obvious to me.
I'm up for the job if anyone is hiring.
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Is this a little like
[Read the article: The gay voter's guide to the GOP]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A black man's guide the least dangerous members of the KKK?