Letters to the Editor
Peter Paul
Published Letters: 48 Editor's Choice: 1
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John Take-A-Chance-On-Me McCain
[Read the article: Knowing me, knowing ABBA]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here's another reason to love ABBA--John McCain wanted to use "Take a Chance on Me" for his campaign, but ABBA members raised holy hell and said no way!
-- Sally the Werewolf
Further proof that McCain suffers from terminal old dorky white guy disease. Now I am going to have that image replaying in my head the rest of the day, of McCain ambling on stage in front of a lime-green background as Abba chants.
Take a Chance!
Take a Chance!
Take a Chance on Me!
[Staffers cringe as they realize the audience is mostly too old to have been Abba fans. McCain tries to assume a hopeful expression but ends up just looking confused as he finds it too difficult to read the teleprompter]
So much that I wanna do
when I dream I'm alone with you!
[McCain visably blushes as he comprehends for the first time the lyrics are actually inapropriate for the occassion...and worse yet, he still can't read the goddamn teleprompter]
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The humanity. Oh the humanity.
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Send Rush to China
[Read the article: Rush Limbaugh: "Why can't we be more like China?"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Several years ago, before Rush had his own well publicized experience with drug addiction, Rush loudly opined that the way to win the War on Drugs was to punish both the dealers and the users equally. He favored a judicial policy that imposed lengthy prison sentences on the supply side as well as the demand side. I tend to disagree with this, but would be willing to make an exception in Limbaugh's case. Let's have him serve his sentence in a Chinese prison, a cell with a view of a smog choked highway, full of state subsidized gasoline powered SUVs. Sweet.
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Safe Careers?
[Read the article: Our cupboard was bare]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Among the reponses to this article were a number which were sharply critical of the author for her career choice, a writer, and how having children should lead one to pursue less risky professions. But there are few safe careers or safe jobs. Job security is rapidly becoming an illusion in our nation. Even experienced, educated workers are often times hired as temps or work on short term contracts. Often without benefits. In my local economy there is a surplus of qualified workers for almost all professions. Both blue collar and white collar. There is a surplus of plumbers and electricians; engineers and software developers. Under-employment is common. Especially for the middle aged worker. The trend in many companies is to shed middle aged employees and replace them with those younger and less expensive. One of the few shortages is in the healthcare field. However, college students are responding to this shortage and enrolling in nursing programs and other healthcare related programs in droves. There is no longer any guarantee of a safe career.
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Staycation from hell
[Read the article: Staycation Nation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Do we have a buzzword for that enforced "vacation" that starts immediately following a mass firing by your former employer and ends when you find the next, often lower-paying new job? You know, that tedious, never wracking interval when you spend most of your time performing non-productive activities, such as worrying about whether you'll ever find a decent job again? When you wouldn't even consider spending what little money you've managed to save up since the previous job loss on some frivilous trip to Las Vegas? We could call it the staycation from hell, but that admittedly lacks originality.
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McCain-Palin Ticket is Comically Weak
[Read the article: Welcome to John McCain's party]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How did we get to this place where a comically weak Republican McCain-Palin ticket, after 7+ years of abject failure from the current Republican Administration, still stands a reasonable chance of winning the election? We are so obviously in the midst of an economic meltdown that is going to take years to reverse. We are confronting a crisis in the financial sector that McCain doesn't remotely comprehend. Not to mention the foreign policy mine field waiting for McCain to stumble through. He is completely ill-equiped to successfully lead us through these crises. A McCain presidency is so obviously a disaster waiting to happen. And yet he will probably get at least 47%-48% of the popular vote. If not more. As a nation, far too many of us are disconnected from reality. Come November, I will vote. But I will not for one minute watch this freak show of a Republican convention. It's collective insanity televised for our entertainment. And yet our destiny as a nation rides on it.