Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 268 Editor's Choice: 42
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Education? Class? Urban vs. Rural?
[Read the article: The baby bust]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Were these samples evenly matched in those areas? I'm not so sure that this could be a representative sample, much less a relevant issue. The real question we should be asking is "Are Democrats doing a good job of representing the interests of the working class, immigrants, African Americans, and the poor?", as opposed to "Should we be popping out more kids or begrudging our conservative neighbors theirs?"
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Low-brow dystopia
[Read the article: The mad Russian]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Surprised no one mentioned "Brazil."
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Move over Fox
[Read the article: The false path to 9/11]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]ABC/Disney is on the job.
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So sad
[Read the article: Run over in the middle of the road]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is a fairly obvious ploy on Lieberman's part. He is trying to stake out some kind of power position in the Senate while (he thinks) he still has some. When he becomes an Independant, he will be someone who has no party to support him. He will need both Dems and Repugs to cede him power, so he has to become the guru of bi-partisanship now. The sad thing for him is that it is doomed; he became irrelevant to the process when he lost the primary. Whether he wins or loses he is a straw man. How appropriate for one of the Senate's most soulless.
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I heart Chicks
[Read the article: The Fix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I hate country, but I swear I'm buying all of the Dixie Chicks albums, just for that comment!
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Not so sure, Nobody's Friend
[Read the article: Run over in the middle of the road]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It may play out as you say, but I do not see that Lieberman is a man of principle at all. To the contrary, I see him blowing with the wind, as long as it's advantageous for him, and if Lamont is smart, he'll point that out. Dems and Reps may use him, but since he changed his party affiliation for political convenience, rather than for clearly expressed ideals, as Jeffords did, will anyone will actually trust him for anything other than a vote tipper? And that is assuming the balance in the Senate remains close. We'll see, if he wins, yes?
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I haven't read EVERY letter, but...
[Read the article: The blogosphere's breast debate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Has anyone pointed out Clinton's role in this photo? I happened to have worked at a fundraiser during Clinton's last year in office and he and Gore posed with the volunteers after the event. Clinton zoomed in on the one young and attractive chickie in the room, and sure enough, she was right in front of him during the shoot and he continued to flirt with her - and the photo resulted in a similar pose. Clinton has such personal magnetism, it's all a woman can do to keep her hormones at bay when he is nearby. So stop bashing the girl - it's not her fault!
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It is still important news
[Read the article: A "heck of a job" for Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I vaguely remember the report, but it is good to get all the details; the odd story here and there in '03 in the alt press didn't make much noise. We weren't that surprised that only Repugs were getting jobs in Iraq; we just thought that it was still the right-leaning State Dept. career people that were the beneficiaries.
To find out that ideology was the sole job requirement, and that competant people were pushed out, that so many people died - Iraqi and American, not to mention coalition forces -for a dumb frat-boy social experiment, that these cynical, lying bastards still seem to hold power in this country, just infuriates me!
Democrats have plenty of faults, and I am frequently annoyed with the Party leadership. However, I don't think that Kerry, Gore, or any Democrat could have foisted this travesty, this aberration, this folly of governance on any people, much less attacked Iraq in the first place.
Democrats, at least, understand the process of governing, and maybe they like process too much. However, Bush's cabal in Iraq is an all-too-clear example of what handing government to those who want to destroy it can do. That is the Republican mantra. Vote for them at the peril of your children's future!
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The facts
[Read the article: The GOP's tortured logic]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]George W. Bush - The Torture President
Vote Republican - for More Torture
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What the media says is Not the point
[Read the article: The question of newfound Jewishness]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... it's what Allen said and how he overreacted when a reporter brought it up. It's HIS anti-semitism that is the issue, paraphrased here:
'How quickly can I shove this under the rug...oops, too late, those darn reporters had the nerve to notice that I blanched. Damn, ok, turn all whiney and blame them. Poor little me, everybody's against me'
wah.
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Well, I'm willing to believe
[Read the article: Great expectations]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Those of us who are starved for good news this year are, of course, happy that someone is trying to do something concrete, and Clinton is the ideal figurehead for the endeavor. All cynicism aside, he IS good at this particular process, and he will get the press that something this ambitious requires.
The SEIU (Service Employees International Union) had a pretty cool online contest called Since Sliced Bread, which solicited common-sense solutions to today's pressing issues, and they did get alot of decent ideas, (everyone has two or three), 22,000 in all. Yea, there was alot of dumb ideas, but it was a cool way to generate some excitement for solutions to problems that the administration obviously doesn't give a shit about.
However, they got no national press, and somehow all of the winning ideas focused on problems that mostly affect workers, surprise, at the union level. I have not heard a thing about implementation either. In the end, too narrow a vision, no follow-through and lack of aggressive PR made the project a dud.
Here's hoping that CGI does a better job; We could use more good news.