Letters to the Editor
Tom in Central Illinois
Published Letters: 205 Editor's Choice: 13
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remember those comet fragments that crashed into Jupiter a few years back?
[Read the article: Next stop, Mars]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]if those comet fragments had crashed into Earth, we would not be having this conversation because human society (Western, Eastern, Northern, Southern) would be no more. Self-supporting cities on Mars, as well as on Luna (aka Earth's Moon), will not be able to solve Earth's overpopulation problem or any other social problem. These extraterrestrial cities will ensure that the human race survives if a big rock collides with Earth. Yes, the galaxy is a big place, yes, faster-than-light travel ala Star Trek will probably remain a fantasy, but does that mean the human race must shiver and shake whenever an unstable fool grabs a thermonuclear weapon and then threatens the destruction of the world unless he gets what he wants?
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and the question remains.....what is to done with the Palestinians?
[Read the article: Nation building]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Leaving them in those rancid refugee camps is not a solution because those camps simply breed more fanatical suicide bombers; dispersing them to the various Arab governments might be possible if the various Arab governments are willing to accept people who otherwise serve as a convenient excuse to hate Israel; constructing mass crematoriums in the camps and then incinerating the Palestinians by the hundreds would certainly be one Final Solution, if Israel and its supporters can stomach being transformed into clones of the Gestapo and other tools of the Third Reich (although George W. Bush is happily changing the USA into the Fourth Reich)
these, then, are your alternatives to setting up a Palestinian state: continue the camps, disperse the people to other nations or exterminate the people
and God/Yahweh/Jehovah/Allah/Christ will have no mercy on your soul if you choose the third option
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beware of the revenge of the .....................
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]beefsteak tomato, especially when the zucchini vines creep into your house, up your stairs and then into your bed; beware lest the zucchini vines replace Carol Lay with Carol Zucchini; Carol Zucchini will then be content to simply lay around all day in a bed of well tended dirt and recycle carbon dioxide into oxygen and that will be the end of WayLay
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as a member of that segment of white male U.S. citizenry that turned 18 in 1970.........
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Back in 1970, I would have quickly rendered myself invisible when I heard some idiot ask the question "what can young American adults between the ages of 18 to 22 do to support an over stretched military?" An official, declared Act of War sharply reduces one's options; an undeclared, unofficial war leaves one's options wide open, with military duty being a dreary, dirty option. In 1943, my late father, then a young, unmarried 20 year old fellow had two options: enlist in the military service of his choice or stay in his factory job and wait for the draft board to assign him to a military service. He chose to enlist in the USAAF and on VJ Day, he was a first lieutenant and a fighter pilot. In 1970, after I graduated from high school, I had three choices: enlist in the military, get a job and wait for the draft board to contact me or get a college student deferment for four years and seriously think about what I should do with my life as I pursued a college degree. I chose the student deferment option and the world gave me a gift: the Selective Service System imploded, the Vietnam War ended and I have never been compelled to do military service. I will not play the "what if" game ("what if I were 18 again in 1970, would I still shun military duty?") or the "woulda, coulda, shoulda" shuffle: I made my choices and I live by the consequences. As to that unanswered question, I do not have any profound answers.
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the soul of an accountant........
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]or how about the soul of an economist? it is said that an economist lacks the charisma to be an accountant
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the modern health care system reminds me.......
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]of that twit from the 'Dilbert' cartoon strip called Mordac; Mordac's sole purpose is to deny people access to anything; your personal physician is always overruled by a nameless, faceless bookkeeper who will always claim that your stay in an acute care room of the hospital was not 'medically necessary' (the fact that you were so physically immobile at the time that using the toilet was impossible is not a sufficient excuse; the fact that you were so physically immobile that preparing any kind of nutritious balanced meal, let alone consuming it, is also not a sufficient excuse); outpatient care will always be mandated even though leaving you alone in your house is tantamount to a death sentence; whomsoever dreamed up this massive hell deserves to have his/her eyes and entrails plucked out; BRING ON SOCIALISM!! BRING ON THE CANADA SYSTEM!! conservatives are egg-sucking dogs!!
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I knew that McCain was a conservative
[Read the article: The fighting side of McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but I had assumed that was because of his inner being, his life experiences and the like, instead of something akin to camouflage paint that had been sprayed onto him by a Karl Rove-like assistant; I had thought that McCain had the intellect to see through the sham and scam of Bush/Cheney/Rove; I had thought that McCain had the internal honesty to label the debacle in Iraq as a matter for the War Crimes Tribunal; I had assumed that his frequent mood swings were an aftereffect of the post-traumatic stress disorders stemming from his military days.
If he truly wishes to commit suicide, let me know and I will have a fancy commemorative K-Bar knife shipped to him.
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as for the skanky blonde pundette
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]zap her with the Ray of Ironic Justice and let her be an unmarried single parent National Guardsperson with two children on her third extended tour of duty in Iraq