Letters to the Editor
Ted3000
Published Letters: 8 Editor's Choice: 5
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Rock and Roll
[Read the article: Say it loud: I'm elite and proud!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bill Maher's show is never perfect, but his closing rhetoric is blistering and first-class, and hell, I like him. I like when Salon reprints it.
Looks like not everyone in this lettercol understands that you can riff on politics and not be held up to journalisic standards - though in these low days, Maher might get a B+.
Bill Maher is not reporting, he's opining - so what's all this noise that Salon is somehow sloppy for showcasing him? When you see "Bill Maher" or "Garrison Keillor" or "Editorial Cartoon" in the headline, you might want to put down your AP Style Guide.
Sure, Ann Coulter does the same sort of thing, but her scene is mainly twisting heads and sparking fires. She's a verbal sociopath, a known plagiarist, and the left's disposable antichrist. She's got a role to play. But I doubt she'd invite a rival as well-armed as Christopher Hitchens to tangle.
Onto Bill's point: I think my razor has the word Elite somewhere on the package, and it does not tear into my face like those cheap Bics.
I think the use of "Elite" as smear has less about experience and more to do with culture. When someone is smeared with "elite," it's totally about Jazz v. NASCAR.
I'm pretty sure you can be a Jesus-crazed bumpkin shitkicker and know your job. Somehow, in defiance of statistical likelihood, the Bush Administration has managed to staff the entire US government with people who both loathe brie AND can't read maps.
At this moment in history, I think we'd be better off with an Attorney General who has a passing familiarity with soft cheese.
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Let's do it.
[Read the article: Repeal the Second Amendment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This isn't "injun country" - this is a service-industry, sub/urban postmodern society with computers and lasers and instant coffee - and far too much gun violence.
Why should this antique amendment (which was written for the benefit of ye olde Militias and makers of fine muskets and swords ) guarantee that our horrible mass-produced, ultra-deadly future weapons can be stockpiled by people who don't need them?
I need a car more than you need a gun. There's nothing in the constitution proving for my right to operate a horseless carriage in the service of a well regulated civilian fleet. Why is this "arms" product placement even in there?
Cars can be deadly too - but they have a legitimate use. Guns have a 2 uses, one is murder, the other, target practice. How lofty.
Despite some gun owners' paranoid post-apocalyptic fantasies, we won't hold the government in check with your gun collection. All those robbers and rapists constantly clawing at your door will have a field day, I'm sure.