Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 7
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the wages of partying
[Read the article: Let them eat cake (or a Yule log or cookies shaped like Barney)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think I'm pretty much as ardent a basher of privilege, and particularly the Bush brand of privilege, as the next person, but this feels like a cheap shot.
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new Radiohead album
[Read the article: Radiohead's new album: Choose your price]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Big middle finger to the industry. Bravo. They're going to get 5 pounds of my dough, whatever that works out to in dollars.
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misanthropes
[Read the article: The bull market for forgotten films]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hey, I resent being called a misanthrope for living in a small market (Salt Lake City, Utah). In fact, come to think of it, I hate you for saying that.
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another option
[Read the article: Say it ain't so, David Paterson]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Another great option would be to treat a politicians sexual lives as being distinct from their ability to perform their public duties, as we do in so many other spheres of life. In the business world, for example, in which trustworthiness is a very important factor, and there's a measurable bottom line, no one cares or asks about the private lives of corporate executives. So much the better, in my opinion.
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democracy
[Read the article: Why Hillary Clinton should be winning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, it's so quaint and eccentric that the Democratic Party, unlike the Republicans or the national election system, actually comes closer to counting the votes of ALL the people. Why can't Democrats just straighten up and use the winner take all system that conveniently ignores so many votes? You know which one I mean: the one that helped elect George Bush even though Al Gore got more votes.
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remote data access
[Read the article: Don't want your laptop strip-searched?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The "leave everything encrypted on a server and then access remotely" solution has its problems as well, since, at least in theory, any electronic communication from inside the country to outside the country is surveillable. I guess the difference is that a) you don't subject nearly so many documents to scrutiny and b) whatever you do access remotely is crossing the wires along with a lot of other data.
One important thing to learn, however, if you're going to access your info via a server is to install and use ssh. I don't think the government could, much less would, try to decrypt every single ssh packet that crosses the wire. There are too many legitimate uses of ssh.
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hypocrisy
[Read the article: Rice: Military power is "not the way to deal in the 21st century"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It reminds me of a surreal moment I watched on television several years ago when some United States government spokesperson (I can't remember who even) stood up at a podium and declared, as a comment on a Palestinian Declaration of Independence, that you can't just unilaterally declare your own sovereignty (I'm paraphrasing). I nearly choked on my food.