Letters to the Editor
conryw
Published Letters: 340 Editor's Choice: 13
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Ooops! Me siento mucho
[Read the article: The gloomy gospel according to George Soros]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I meant David Larry D.
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Time to turn the heat up:
[Read the article: Bill Gates and Wal-Mart want to save the world]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some hundred, or whatever years from now people are not going to remember my name or your's; but Bill Gates' name will be thoroughly remembered. So we can all be glad about this. May his and Wal-Mart's actions be as good as their rhetoric.
No poverty; no charity
P.S. click on conryw to reference Los Angeles Times' articles on The Gates Foundation.
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Link didn't work. Here it is again, hopefully:
[Read the article: Bill Gates and Wal-Mart want to save the world]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx7jan07-sg,0,261331.storygallery
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And right behind it is "froth"
[Read the article: Subprime: Word of the Year!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Like, dude, that froth on my latte is soooo subprime. Like, it's so grody to the max; just gag me with a spoon, like, OK?
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Remember what Roosevelt said about fear?
[Read the article: What's at stake today in the Senate's FISA filibuster vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All this stinking Cheney, I mean Bush administration has offered the American people is crass manipulation through fear. That’s basically how they’ve gotten away with everything they have done.
Not to dump on people’s personal belief systems, but this is out of the play-book of institutional religion. You get people scared enough, and then you’ve got them where you want them. It’s high time for this kind of stuff to end.
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The real reason Giuliani's bid is fading...
[Read the article: Punch-drunk Rudy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He looks like a mortician, or some character Charles Addams might have dreamt up.
Life is cruel.
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Sad priorities
[Read the article: Don't be happy, worry]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe everybody has to take their happy pill because they're sad that big-pharma isn't developing more antibiotics.
Capitalism at its best!!
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Blah - blah - blah - blah.
[Read the article: The dismal state of George W. Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Before I trust "the people" ever again, I'll put my trust first in a pack of rabid monkeys. Even rabid dogs are more predictable.
Frankly, in America most of "the people" simply don't deserve their own country. Apparently most Americans are putting the economy as a bigger concern than the Iraq disaster... Sheesh! That says it all!! So much for Reptilapublican and craven Demoncrat generated genocide.
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I'm very sad about this.
[Read the article: AP reports John Edwards will drop out today]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]{:-(
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I did a really naughty thing once
[Read the article: My big, fat, unpaid credit card bill]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A long time ago, I had a co-worker - who I really liked - and a couple of years after he had moved away and we all lost touch with him, this collection agency called my job looking for him. I told them that he had passed away. Then another year passed, and through the grapevine we found out he was living in Atlanta and was doing great!!
Is that illegal?
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And after the Anthropocene... The Datapocene?
[Read the article: Dawning of the age of the Anthropocene]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't know if that is exactly the right word, but in my heart of hearts I believe something like this is happening. At my job we were discussing AI, and I laughed "artificial"? The stupid thing is building itself, with the internet - or whatever replaces it - the beginnings of a neurologic construct. Hominids are going to be the dumb corpuscles carting the shit around.
Laurie Anderson said something to the effect: "It rises up out of a boggy swamp on a foggy night; it's life's light!
I say: "Natural is a moot point, unnatural is just somebody's stupid opinion".
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(LoL!!!) Very good, calcareous!
[Read the article: Dawning of the age of the Anthropocene]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But calcareaus, dear, it will be something like our current integrated circuitry - which of course is embedded in rock thanks to Robert Noyce and Jack Kilby - just taken to the nth power. Just like pre-angiospermic plant life and a bunch of dead dinos provide us with our energy ("societal food?"), we may be doing much the same for the macro-organism under development. Who know?
And to the other commenter who brought up the subject of an asteroid smacking us: (heh,heh,heh) when my friends start moaning 'n groaning about global warming, I tell 'em: well it's better than an asteroid hitting us. At least we have a little time to do something about it, or at least mitigate the "damage", no? Hey, things are bad, but they can always be worse. And THAT is the last rule of thermodynamics, as far as I'm concerned.
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Hey, zit eye!!!
[Read the article: Dawning of the age of the Anthropocene]
[Read more letters about this article: Here](LoL!!) Rob Seaman... Yes, yes, yes. Too fantastic, but oh, so true. Shall we call this self-induced sympatric speciation? Wreck the environment so we can entertain ourselves through physical transformation.
Ah, Neroism is in the air!
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There is a very simple solution to this problem.
[Read the article: The omnivore's new dilemma]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, maybe not... But here goes: The entire world sit down draw up a constitution and become one country. One of these days we are going to be forced to do this anyway - might as well do it ASAP.
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*Yawn*
[Read the article: Campaign wrap]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Come November when I go to the voting booth I'm just going to flip a coin. This time around I'm not voting FOR anyone. I'm just voting AGAINST! the Reptilapublicans, so there.
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One more thought about this
[Read the article: The omnivore's new dilemma]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All those impoverished Chinese -and in many other places, like Africa - rural subsistence farmers could be providing China and the rest of us with range grown healthy food.
I say screw ethanol, because the same basic problem of burning - whether it be dead dinosaurs or todays corn - is still exacerbating global warming.
Which goes back to my other comment here. "Good" globalization will never fly unless people have something to the effect of what we have here in America, and other western democracies: taxation with representation.
The nation state is dead and the cadaver is beginning to smell
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nkennedy you're a defeatist.
[Read the article: The omnivore's new dilemma]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]With a full stomach you may not like, or appreciate the idea of eating insects and other (heh,heh) range grown arthropods, but many Asian cultures have now problem with it. Why should it be any different for us!
My recommendation to the Chinese palate: less tiger penises and more bugs, OK?
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Response...
[Read the article: The omnivore's new dilemma]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We would (ideally). I, without being necessarily knowledgeable enough to say this with absolute authority, I prefer two party system of democracy, but a parliamentary system would probably work best in the one-world scenario.
As the effects of our rapidly changing environment become more apparent we're going to be forced into crisis mode. It's amazing how a crisis affects people; yes it can be bad, but it can be amazingly good. I walked all over S.F. right after the Loma Prieta earhquake, and WOW!! It was as if everybody had taken their tab of ecstasy and went into mellow party-mode. It was like this strange miracle happened.
Once everybody understands that were in this together amazing things are going to start to happen.