Letters to the Editor
Tirebiter in Sector R
Published Letters: 7
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Nostalgia is the curse of the boomer class
[Read the article: Why is "Sgt. Pepper" so overhyped?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ah yes, the Innocence of the Sixties. The Summer of Love.
Speaking as an aging boomer who actually lived in (all rise) Berkeley, I'm really sick of innocence. 1960: Ike lies about the U-2. 1961: The Bay of Pigs. 1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis. 1963: Medgar Evers gets shot, the Klan bombs the church in Birmingham, Whatsisname gets shot, the coup in Saigon (underwritten by the US) assures escalation of the war in Vietnam, and "Hey Paula" and "Sugar Shack" hit the airwaves. 1964: Something happened but my brain is so addled I don't remember. 1965: Malcolm X gets shot. As the feller says, and so it goes. For that matter, 17-somethng: Lord Amherst hands out smallpox-infected blankets to the Indians. 1609: slaves hit the dock in Virginia. So let's raise our right hands and swear never to combine "innocence" and "America" in the same sentence.
"Sgt. Pepper" wasn't about innocence. It was about getting wrecked. The colors, man, the colors. The chickens who turn into elephants or was it the other way around? Forty years later, none of the songs make me want to switch channels but I'd rather hear "Funky Broadway" or, for that matter, "I Saw Her Standing There."
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It's not much of a baptism by fire, but it'll have to do
[Read the article: A programming note]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dear Mr. K:
Welcome aboard. I look forward to being informed as all get out.
Enough with the gushing sentiment. Now, on to the dirty part. Can you tell me (or find somebody who can tell me) what happens to Florida's Democrats in the absence of a primary? Does the party really intend to deny them any role in deciding who gets nominated? Are the state's Demos expected to sit at home and choose between watching the convention and switching to American Idol (and by extension, staying home in November)?
Brian, Charlie, and Katie won't tell me the fate of these bereft Florida Demos. It's up to you.
Thanking you in advance,
Tirebiter in Sector R
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Dropping out, taking home marbles, etc
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I made the political mistake of my life in 1968. In November, I wrote in Eugene McCarthy rather than vote for Hubert Humphrey. Showed him, all right. And for all I know, that vote by purists like me made Richard Nixon president.
Never again. I'm an Obamanista who will gladly vote for the National Home Room Teacher against Bush's Third Term. Believe it, fellow Os: any Demo is better than any Rethug.
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Look over your shoulder
[Read the article: Blame Canada]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's almost impossible to reduce this to a bumper sticker and therefore may be pointless to bring up, but as the world's economy has changed, the governments of the US, Canada, abd Mexico would do well to review and if necessary alter their trade relationships through NAFTA. But when they sit around the table to do so, they will all feel the breath of the 800-pound panda on the back of their necks.
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... It dulls their pain
[Read the article: Clinton, Obama, and the forum on faith]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We've heard plenty from the Blowhard Ministry about what he said and how he said it. I'm waiting for
a) some real opinion polls from the people he supposedly offended (the people who know they're getting screwed) and
b) the speech he'll give that, like his post-Wright speech on race, will clear the air and really attack the issue of class in this country.
Tirebiter in Sector R
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What's the real story here?
[Read the article: "Podemos Con Obama"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think one of the people in this video was WEARING A SCARF!!!
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Jukebox John
[Read the article: Until recently, McCain opposed his "top priority"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yessiree, Charlie, Brian, and Katie will be all over McCain's inconsistencies, contradictions, and outright lies about this one. Just like all the other ones they've been all over. Unless a puppy gets rescued from a flood or a Malibu star's hair is absolutely RUINED by the smoke.
If a Republican tells a lie and nobody reports it, did he tell a lie?