Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 1234 Editor's Choice: 22
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Moral Values!!!
[Read the article: Forcing Larry Craig's resignation while embracing David Vitter]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When people discuss their moral values, they are usually talking about what other people are doing, and people obsessed with moral values are often obsessed with the actions of other people. Taking the moral high ground is the equivalent of saying "I'm better than those people, because they are wrong."
But then it becomes a matter of, what is wrong? Is a man consensually fucking another man up the ass wrong? Does the 2 men's actions in and of themselves have any bearing on anything?
Most intelligent people would answer "no" to both questions. But when you ask if it is wrong to divorce a spouse, who has a low level of education, only in order to become freed up to go to another person half the spouse's age, most people would say that is wrong, and that it could be very damaging to the spouse and any kids that were a product of the marriage that is about to be broken.
In truth moral values have nothing to do with being right, but rather are used as a means to be nosy and critical of that which you see in others that you don't like.
When you ask most people if divorce in and of itself is wrong, most people will say "no," because they want the option to be available to them, but when you ask for their opinion of male homosexuality, most people will express disgust, because it is something they have no intention of ever engaging in.
People who claim high moral values, are really just nosy people who can't help but be critical of others, only because those other people are different. Where as a person with a true conscience recognizes that people should be free to do what they want to do, as long as it doesn't hurt someone else.
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ahiida.com is the punchline!!!
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Did anyone bother to checkout ahiida.com? The girls/women on that site look like they are having fun, but I really want to know what they would look like coming out of the surf with all that clothing on, or better yet, on a surfboard.
Think we can get MAXIM to do a Burqini shoot?
How do you say "Surf's Up" in Arabic?
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Berk's a Genius!
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The joke is on Western Media, and it's amazing that Americans and the West still don't get it.
Unless I am very much mistaken, I didn't see or hear any Islamic out-cry over last week's OPUS, and I doubt we will see or hear any Islamic out-cry over this week's OPUS. Last week's joke was about Muslim woman being able to "god willing(ly)" deny her man. No, nothing offensive about Islam in that. This weeks joke is about Muslim swim-wear made for woman, which is an item that Muslim women can actually buy online, and I predict Burqinis will be a big hit (and not just with Muslin women). No, nothing offensive toward Islam there either.
The jokes were about America's and the West's perception of Islam, which is considerably far off from reality, and the fact that the last 2 OPUS strips were censored by American news papers is proof of that fact.
Could Mr. Breathed have known he was going to get banned by Western Media for no logical reason what so ever?
The best jokes are the ones that the target is too stupid to understand, and Berk managed to pull off such a joke on the entire Western Media.
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Machismo!
[Read the article: The GOP's crowded closet]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Machismo is the word that best describes the tone that White, Male, Christian, Conservatives want to exude. As a student in high school I was always baffled by how jocks were always trying to one up their level masculinity over every other man around them, where as placing your hands under another man's ass before the hike in football can hardly be seen as "straight." The Greeks played the original Olympics in the nude, and a lot of sports such as wrestling, gymnastics, weight lifting, dancing, Judo, and etc, can easily be seen as homo-erotic, but athletes, especially high school and college athletes, are always quick to point out that they are not gay (in the exact same manner that Larry Craig did).
Apparently to Republicans (whether they be straight or closeted) the real sign of machismo is to prove that you are not gay, and the best way to prove that you are not gay is to bash on homosexuals, just like how Tucker Carlson's boasted that he had beat-up a homosexual man in a bathroom.
The men of the Republican party, both straight and closeted, have a have deep desire to firmly establish their machismo status as firmly and sternly as possible, and that means bashing opening gay men (they don't bash lesbians so much) as harshly as they possible can either literally or through political rhetoric/legislation.
Having no interest in sports during high-school, but possessing a deep desire to charm as many girls as I possibly could with the hope that I might be able to get into one of their pants (which didn't happen till I got a job and my own place while attending college), I saw an openly gay male youth successfully and routinely fend off a mob of gay bashers (both from the facility and the student body) everyday, and to me he exuded machismo far more than any of the candy-assed jocks did. And many of those candy-asses jocks were young Republicans.
King Kaufman, when he wrote an article about the homophobic advertisements shown during the Superbowl, said it best when he wrote "I am ready for Homophobia to not be funny anymore (or something like that)."
Well I am ready for gay bashing to stop being a sign of masculinity/machismo.