Letters to the Editor
david-smith
Published Letters: 88 Editor's Choice: 8
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He Was In The Middle of Everything That Mattered for 60 Years
[Read the article: Remembering Norman Mailer through his books]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Though I can hardly say the fact of Norman Mailer’s death was especially surprising – his advancing age and declining health seemed rather evident in recent years – it was nonetheless something of a shock to encounter the reality of its announcement in today’s Times. Ted Burke does a superb job of articulating the qualities that have always made Mailer’s work so inspiring and passionate, as does Scott in his selection from the Reader’s Guide. I don’t have the words to add anything original to what they’ve said so eloquently, but the one point I’d like to repeat with particular emphasis is how goddamn much Mailer's work matters, a circumstance that an assortment of pygmies and trolls hasn’t managed to change for 60 years, and which will undoubtedly continue notwithstanding the outpouring of envy and bile that will surely be forthcoming over the coming days.
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This Will Undoubtedly Provoke Immediate Compliance
[Read the article: Waxman to Mukasey: Send Plame documents]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Given the crystal clarity of the law and precedent, and the decisiveness of Congressional resolve in this circumstance, I'm absolutely positive we can look forward to full and immediate compliance on the part of the White House, and an opportunity for a comprehensive review of the reuqested materials. After all, we've all seen the dramatic legal repurcussions of simply ignoring the will of Congress and telling the Democratic leadership to go fuck themselves, and God knows the White House wouldn't casually assume the risks of having another U.S. Attorneys scandal on their hands.
I mean, look at the enormous poltiical capital that bit of defiance has cost them!
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Make That 500, Plus the Usual Rats Like You
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If it was a GG column, there would 500 posts by now, most of them in the form of verbal circle jerks.
Wrong; there would certainly be a few more, if you include the turd-sniffing rodents like you, who stick their greasy snouts into the circle in order to lick up the excess.
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"When does McCain offer Lieberman the Vice-Presidency?"
[Read the article: Lieberman and McCain: Kissing cousins in Connecticut]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Was McCain's campaign not just about dead in the water prior to Lieberman's breathing life into it a month or so ago?
When does McCain offer Lieberman the Vice-Presidency?
Right after he offers you the position of Secretary of State, half-wit.
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Let's Call It Like It Is
[Read the article: Michelle Obama on "ignorant" America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The one aspect of this post that strikes a somewhat odd note is the ingenuousness of the notion that anyone could conceivably believe that Michelle Obama was referring solely to white people, or that she intended her comments in any other way than Ms. Walsh suggests. This is not a question of some mistaken interpretation by Fox, it is simply the latest installment of the Perpetual Republican Nigger Hunt, and it strikes me as most useful and accurate to acknowledge it as such.
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Bush, Cheney, Adolph Guiliani and Scumbag Joe
[Read the article: Lieberman's unusual take on "the facts"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One thing about this post I'm delighted by is its absence of the usual reference to the excerable Lieberman as an "independent Democrat;" indeed, there have been few political events in recent years more gratifying than the deeply patriotic decision by the voters of Connecticut to emphatically and permanently vomit out Scumbag Joe from the Democratic Party. Quite simply, Lieberman - along with Bush, Cheney, and Adolph Guiliani - is the most indescribably loathsome piece of shit even to crawl out of a toilet and mutate legs.
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Republican "Law and Order" Was NEVER for Corporations
[Read the article: "Deferred prosecutions" clear way for corporate crimes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Remember, back in the day, when Republicans presented themselves as the "law and order" party?
You must be kidding! The Republican Party is as much for "law and order" as it ever was. This simply frees up more time and resources for the Perpetual Republican Nigger Hunt.
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The Stenographic Media aren't the main culprits
[Read the article: Radio silence on Bush's torture admission]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No matter how stunningly corrupt, lazy, self-serving and incomepetent the hacks of the Stenographic Media are, I can't saddle them with the lion's share of responsibility for the failure to inform the public about this latest criminal conspiracy by the Imbecile-in-Chief and his cronies. Not when leading members of the Democratic Party - the "opposition" - treat it as little more then business as usual. Clinton, Obama - along with every prominent member of the Democratic Congressional delegation - ought to be organizing press conferences and loudly denouncing Bush as a depraved criminal who is leading the assault on the U.S. Constitution and human decency. Frankly, even the most debased media sycophants - even something as loathsome as David Brooks, for example - would have to start acknowledging the accusations.