Letters to the Editor
Valkyrie607
Published Letters: 147 Editor's Choice: 3
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Oil is Great!
[Read the article: Slick John McCain and the offshore oil ruse]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I love oil. It's so useful, and so versatile. But I wish that our entire material economy didn't depend so utterly upon it. It is, after all, a finite resource.
Ecologists will tell you that a successful organism or group of organisms will survive in the long-term if they have diverse ways of finding energy. Humans have done well, evolutionarily speaking, because we are omnivores and thus can survive in many different environments.
But we aren't omnivores any more. Oh, we may think we're eating broccoli, beef, corn dogs, or quinoa salad, but really we're eating OIL. Oil provides the energy to bring the seeds to the farmer, the energy for the tractor to till the ground, to add fertilizer, to harvest it, to ship the food to the factory, to process it, and then to bring it to the grocery store. Without oil, it all comes crashing down.
This is an utterly ridiculous state of affairs. Are we really so stupid as to bet our whole economy, and our children's future, on one steadily declining source of energy? Apparently.
It infuriates me. I personally know many, many people with fabulous skills, ideas, and talents that would help us move beyond this crisis, but no-one in power is interesting in tapping into these human resources. Instead, they chase power and wealth, at the expense of our children. It is the height of immorality, yet they are at the top of the social heap, so nobody ever calls them out about it-at least not where they can hear it.
"One day they will realize that you cannot eat coins and you cannot drink money."
--Chief Seatl
Ditto for oil.
To all those who care more about the price at the pump than what the world will look like 50 years from now: your grandchildren will spit on your grave and curse your name. Mine as well, if we're not able to turn this train around. Wake up!
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@ bucks4mccain (feeding the troll)
[Read the article: Slick John McCain and the offshore oil ruse]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We CANNOT drill ourselves out of this problem.
Drilling for more oil will not solve this problem.
Sure, drilling for oil might help stave off REALLY high gas prices (doubt it), but it will only put off the necessity of dealing with the REAL issue: basing our entire material economy on oil.
We can't drill our way out of this problem.
We simply cannot drill our way out of the so-called "problem" of high gas prices. The REAL problem, of course, is our over-reliance on gas in the first place.
WE CAN'T DRILL OUR WAY OUT OF THIS.
...Just thought I'd try the old Republican tactic of persuasion by repetition.
p.s. Drilling for more oil isn't a solution. It's just a band-aid. WE CANNOT DRILL OUR WAY TO ENERGY INDEPENDENCE.
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This was weird...
[Read the article: Is the Pill "outdated"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I found it strange that the article mentioned depo-provera and IUDs but not nuvarings. Personally, ever since I started using the nuvaring, I've had trouble fathoming why this awesome method of birth control isn't being trumpeted from the mountaintops, the same way they do with that ridiculous "Yaz" shit. It's perfect. It's the lowest dose of hormones I've ever had, so, no cramping or yeast infections. And I only have to think about it twice a month. Why don't more people know about it? It's a mystery.
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"So America can grow"
[Read the article: Why $140-a-barrel oil is no surprise]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"America," my dear, is exactly the same size as it was thirty years ago. It isn't GROWING. Our economy is "growing"--if by "growing," you mean "converting more arable land to housing developments and shopping malls."
The whole concept of "growth" is a toxic one. We need a steady-state economy, not one that requires endless growth. Endless growth is in fundamental contradiction with all the principles of ecology, not to mention life, that we know of. Eventually things level off and decrease. No empire lasts forever. It's just the way of the world.
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@anonymust
[Read the article: Obama advisor Greg Craig: Adding insult to injury]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And if you don't have a microwave?...
It sounds delicious, especially with the changes proposed by Kitt.
I've emailed my friends and family asking them to join the Obama Get FISA Right group. I think it will become the largest group on the site.
Aside from that, I think that some civil disobedience is called for, perhaps at our respective Senators' offices, on July 7.
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The real reason why the site is valuable
[Read the article: The unbearable whiteness of being]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is that is forces white people to think about the tags and stereotypes that come along with being white. One of the main differences between being white and being, well, "minority" or whatever, is that white people aren't constantly forced to recognize the fact that, "Hey, I'm white," on a daily basis. They don't have to confront the fact that there are certain stereotypes that come along with that, just as there are for every skin tone and ethnic group. That's because white is the default setting in America. A "man" is assumed to be a white man. Any other type of man needs a qualifier, whether he's black, Asian, Latino, Caribbean, or Inuit. You get the idea.
Salon totally missed the boat with its editor's choice stars. I haven't even read the rest of the letters except those two and they sucked.
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Awwwww
[Read the article: The K Chronicles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Congrats to you and your wife, Keith.
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Okay, NOW I'm pissed off...
[Read the article: Interview with ACLU re: constitutional challenge to new FISA law]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow.
The only good thing about this vote, as far as I can tell, is that it gives us a quick go-to list for which Democratic Congresspersons need to be removed from office.
Let's get crackin!
p.s. Bernbart?... You're outclassed. You're relying on factually inaccurate positions. It's hard to win an argument that way.