Letters to the Editor
Gordon Wagner
Published Letters: 794 Editor's Choice: 16
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What do Democrats stand for..?
[Read the article: Patriot Act games]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wrung-out dishrags, perhaps..? Ivy-League-ivory-tower thinking that few Americans can relate to? The perception of perpetual weakness is not doing Democrats any favors.
Hillary Clinton is not an inspiring nor a friendly figure to most people. Joe Lieberman (the Democratic Senator from Tel Aviv) appears to be more interested in Israel than in the United States. Any Democrat that appears to be digging in their heels (I'm thinking of Paul Hackett in Ohio) is persuaded to withdraw or pull back. Or, like Paul Wellstone, finds themselves thoroughly dead in a small plane wreck, a one-car accident, et cetera.
Pardon mon francaise, but Democrats have to surrender their perpetually pussified images and draw blood.
9/11/01 was certainly not merely some angry Arabs armed with magic bullets causing a skyscraper to collapse neatly on its own footprint. Why the big rush to recycle the steel overseas? Why did Dubya stonewall a proper investigation..? Remember his wanting Hank Kissinger to head the cover-up..? I mean, investigation? The only person scarier than Hank is Condi Rice.
The Democrats need to ATTACK AND DESTROY the Republicans and their bullshit facade of patriotism, and I mean go for the throat, not some civilized bout of fisticuffs.
If they're not up to it, then they ought to fold their tents and intellectuals and working people should form a new political party in this country and throw all their weight behind it without hesitation nor reservation.
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Fox News to be renamed Fox Republican Propaganda
[Read the article: Four days after shooting, Cheney will talk -- to Fox]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Film @ eleven.
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A simple idea. And a couple of obvious facts.
[Read the article: All the news stuff that's fit to print]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If newspapers would allow a margin of 1 1/2 or 2 inches on the sides of their pages, perhaps more people would open one -- I don't like to touch newspapers since the rubber-based ink never dries and advertisers will often run ads with more than 50% ink coverage... which means a mess.
Besides that problem, there's really nothing worth reading in a newspaper -- I live in San Diego and the paper here is good for lighting my barbecue and nothing else. Dyed-in-the-wool staunch no-thinking "conservatism" that very few people can relate to.
Stale wire stories I read on the web a week ago, rah-rah editorials for the latest boondoggle some overly ambitious politician wants to bring about to benefit his wealthy corporate owners -- who needs it? It's like listening to NPR without quite so many pro-Israel stories.
If it wasn't for the sports pages, I imagine that few cities would even publish a daily newspaper.
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No cause for alarm
[Read the article: Democrats ruining America's future]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]After all, the airports involved in the 9/11/01 false flag op were run by an I$raeli company... put your mind at ease, citizen. And may I see your papers..?
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Oh. Sorry you were offended.
[Read the article: Cars for real men]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Perhaps having the yappy girlfriend yammering away while Mr. Guy drove followed by a cut to a scene with Ms. Yap standing by the side of the road and a title crawling up reading "He travels fastest who travels alone" would have been better.
Volkswagen quality has been in the toilet for over 25 years. Most Real Guys(tm) are aware of this. Let them snare a few morons.
OTOH, American women make the worst wives in the world -- where's the harm in pointing that fact out to younger men who may not have stepped in the bear trap, yet..?
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The world will go on
[Read the article: What's the best method for a painless suicide?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And you will be forgotten. Kurt Cobain.
You couldn't up and move somewhere new, do something new, find something new..? Imagine how many quadrapeligics ache 24/7 just for the chance to walk down a road, how many blind people hope for even a blurry vision of one more sunset...
If you're shot through and through with cancer and in constant pain, go for it. Otherwise stop acting like an asshole and make the necessary changes.
Hmm, if you're terminal, why not vacation in DC and help sculpt government..? Any suit you'd hit would probably be an improvement. And suicide by cop is all the rage, from what I hear...
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Who cares?
[Read the article: She is JT LeRoy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I mean, I guess I ought to be grateful that it's not another article about Jennifer Aniston.
How about an article on the "statistical impossibilities" of the 2004 Diebold-tweaked Presidential election or counting the holes in the "official" 9/11/01 story..? Those topics are of a bit more importance to me personally and to the Salon readership as a whole.
How about examining the memes being planted left and right by Dubya et al regarding Iran and their Nigerian yellowcake... or was that "uranium gas"? Are they really going to insert the US military penis in another "war" based on shoddy intel?
How did this freaking Alfred E. Newman of a President, condom for corporate Amurcuh, obviously jug-eared and lost, aching for a drink, assume that his dubious victory in 2004 was any kind of mandate for the callous Republican trail of destruction and abuse we've witnessed since that time..?
J.T. LeRoy? Who cares? Pack yourself a lunch and leave the ivory tower for an hour at noon, you'll be interested at what you find.
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Are you on better drugs than I'm on..???
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Honesty, I'd rather go outside and pull dandelions out of the lawn in the rain than have to sit through even one of those television shows. Watching television is a waste of your time.
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the point is that the figure in the photo represents US torture
[Read the article: Identifying a torture icon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and that's what George W. Bush has officially turned this country into: THE WORLD'S LEADER IN TORTURE.
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January to Easter
[Read the article: "V for Vendetta"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is the traditional dumping ground for movies that studios have produced but don't believe will fly. Something to do with taxes, I'd guess.
Can you name a great movie that was released in January or February..?
"V for Vendetta"..? By the guys who made "The Matrix"..??? [visions of sitting through "The Matrix" and feeling like I was on a long, long plane flight]