Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 32 Editor's Choice: 2
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OT Question
[Read the article: Michael Gordon, the administration's best friend at the Times]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When you send e-mail to someone, it is the property of the person to whom you are sending it to do with it what they wish (in the absence of an agreement to maintain its confidentiality).
Glenn, first congratulations on your appearance at Salon. I have been a long-time lurker at your old site.
Now, I'm extremely interested your statement (above) about the "ownership" of emails, and I mean those absent an agreement to maintain its confidentiality. I'm not a copyright lawyer, but I understand that if you receive a snail mail letter, you own the paper it's written on, but the copyright is retained by the author, and you may NOT publish it or make use of it without permission.
Are you saying that emails are entirely different?
I would deeply appreciate hearing some elaboration from you--or anyone else here who has some legal expertise on this subject. Please contact me here: Palcewski@gmail.com
Thanks!
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Penis Envy
[Read the article: If only Newt Gingrich were president]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here in Italy I switched from CNN to the BBC and back again and actually sat through Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech yesterday, and for a minute or two nobody seemed to notice at the end when he said the soldiers would be freed as a "gift to the British people." Even CNN's chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour seemed totally taken aback, blinking for a few moments with astonishment, or should I say cognitive dissonance. But she quickly regained her professional aplomb and soon the wires were humming. Now as I watched this unfold, I fully understood this was grand political theater on a stupendous scale, and I felt a grudging admiration for Ahmadinejad. THIS is how we're dealing with a "crisis," he grinned. THIS is how civilized and clever and imaginative people do things. Propaganda, yes, of course. He has his agenda. But by God neither he nor Tony Blair were rattling sabers, nor were bombs falling, nor were people bleeding and dying in the streets. I felt a great, overwhelming sadness for the absolute catastrophe Bush and Cheney and Rove unleashed with their cynical lies, and it was sickening watching Bush at his flared-nostril presser continue to lie while timid--shall I say flaccid?--reporters copied down his lies and turned them into "news" stories. It was horrid. And bizarre. And nauseating. Glenn, you're absolutely right to point out that what drives all this seems to come down to some twisted form of penis envy. Occam's Razor. It's nothing complicated, just profoundly pathological. BTW, perhaps the most bizarre image of the day was tubby Cheney lurking, scowling in the bushes as the president recited Turdblossom's scripted lies to the press corps. This all was and is surreal. Truly BAD fiction. Which makes reading you, Glenn, so essential these days. Thanks for your service.
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Single Question Diagnostic Tool
[Read the article: Am I an alcoholic?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Have you EVER taken more alcohol than you intended to? If so, even once, it's compelling evidence that your control over the substance is not as you wish it might be.
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I Weep For America
[Read the article: Another resignation at Justice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Haul him before a congressional committee, so he can tell us everything he just doesn't recall right now, and when he's through stonewalling, let him take up his new seven-figure position at one of those Karl Rovian think tanks, or AIPAC, or Haliburton. This is how it all will end. Each of those fascist swine will become quail-eating millionaires, wholly immune from any consequence for their criminal behavior. I weep for America.
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The Absolute Necessity Of Bombing Iran
[Read the article: The NYT on the administration's "debate" over whether to attack Iran]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To employ some of Rummy's quaint phraseology, there is no question but that Iran must be bombed, and it isn't at all necessary to provide any factual justification. You see, if we bomb Iran it will occupy the Main Stream Media, and this news will perhaps provoke a huge outcry that will last for a few days, and then by that time Paris will have completed her sentence, and Scooter will begin his, so the collapse of our military misadenture in Iraq--that's Iraq, not Iran--will hardly cause a ripple. Karl has spoken.
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Spin, Lies, and BS
[Read the article: A surge of phony spin on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow, more and more people are buying fascist swine Karl Rove's spin, lies and BS still once again, even though over the past four, five years it's been obvious who and what he is. This means he's a genius, right? Wrong. It means that the true believers are either stupid, brain dead or in profound denial. It's hard watching the slow descent of the American government into dictatorship, otherwise known as the Imperial Presidency. It's hard seeing Congress become even more of pathetic joke than it already is. It's even harder to watch that smirking, arrogant moron of a president continue to spout Rove's talking points. It sickens me to see him swagger around with his arms held away from his body, like one of those gunslingers in spaghetti westerns. He is trying SO hard to appear macho, and when a guy tries that you know that deep down he's a pussy. And speaking of pussies, how about those Democrats who caved in still once again to Rove's famous "soft on terrism" meme? There appears to be not a single damned thing that anyone can do to stop the madness. Virtually everything that happens these days is a "win" for the fascist swine Republicans, and a defeat for the Democrats, who apparently can't live any other way but at the bottom. They think that's where they friggin' BELONG.