Letters to the Editor
Ballsee
Published Letters: 233 Editor's Choice: 19
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Who ya gonna believe?
[Read the article: Robert Novak's very sad story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Novak: "You just say you have 'no political leanings' ... because a conservative label on someone would really be an impediment to their careers."
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Oh god how I wish that were true! Oh poor pitiful lowly, maligned conservatives who can't get a word in edgewise these days. What delusions, such unabashed bullshit. They own the White House, they still have the ultimate control of Congress through fear mongering and the political cowardice of the Democrats, the Supreme Court is tilted farther right than it as been in half a century, their ideology is peddled and voiced and endorsed in every major news organization in the United States, they own the radio waves and we're supposed to feel sorry for them because they can't get heard? Lord god what nonsense. It's like the Christianistas who swear they're being maligned and persecuted and prevented from practicing their religion while they own and control every state house and state legislature in the country and own 70% of all the property in the country, both public and private. Jesus, deliver us from your followers.
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Sit right down......
[Read the article: Art movies: R.I.P.]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I could give a rip what twaddle Paglia spews. What's great here, and the only reason to keep her around, are the letters! Salon has got dibs on the smart set in the blogasphere.
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God, Genes and Sex
[Read the article: The Democrats' "gay debate" dance]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let the churches decide who is married? Yikes! Isn’t that already the problem here? That the churches hold sway through their homophobic teachings over the political process and therefore keep the denial of gay civil rights percolating rather well here in good old God Save America? The legal status of married people has always been determined by the civil authorities in the U.S. There is no church issued marriage license that carries the official imprimatur and official seal of any church that signals the legal authority to confer the state of matrimony on anyone, even if an official of the church seals the deal with their signature. A church official’s signature is not a requirement for a valid marriage license. Any civil judicial member can perform the same function. The churches may well be in charge of who holds a wedding ceremony on their property, but they’ve never been in charge of determining who is and who isn’t married, thank God. Marriage predates established churches by some couple of millennia. The Church didn’t invent marriage. While in some churches marriage may be viewed as a “sacrament”, the Church does not own marriage. Imagine, having to go to somebody’s church to ask if it’s okay with them if you can be married?! People are confused about the difference between weddings and marriages.
Is homosexuality a choice? What difference does it make? What evidence is there that human beings have been or are being hurt to any greater or lesser degree by homosexuality than they are heterosexuality, which is equally fraught with a host of potential bad outcomes. Maybe more so. (At least homosexuality doesn’t lead to disease and defect in children!) This pointless hankering after “gay genes” is an extension of the “homosexuality as disease” meme, which is, after a hundred years of scientific data proving otherwise, following centuries of ignorance, still being peddled by religion. Real human progress is slow. It’s a fool’s gamble to believe that the homophobes will suddenly give up their homo-hate once presented with a black and white picture of the big bad “gay gene”. There’s any number of real diseases engendered in our genes, why would the homophobes suddenly see the argument through a different frame? Why aren’t we looking for a “straight gene”? There is no such thing as a homosexual, any more than there is any such thing as a heterosexual, even if most of us largely behave one way or the other over a lifetime. There is only homosexual and heterosexual sexual behaviors, both of which every human being is capable. We are amazingly inventive and creative animals, who have imagined the answers to our needs and brought them to flower in countless different ways whether it be food, language, clothing, housing, tools, religions, governments, etc. Why would we leave sex out of it? This absurd and pointless bickering over “is homosexuality a choice” is just another manifestation of the heterosexual tyranny we all suffer under.
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Me Too!
[Read the article: Hey, Dems: Run against Bush -- and toughen up -- or lose in '08]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I first heard of Westen over at Huffington Post recently and asked then how can we get him on board one of the Democratic candidate's campaigns. Like NOW! I'm reading and shaking my head YES YES YES at every line. Same here.
I recall the fall of 2004, opening the NYTimes every day and seeing another story about Kerry's Vietnam service and the Swifitboats and the accusations and I was running around the house screaming at nobody "WHY IN HELL DOESN'T HE RESPOND TO THIS SMEAR!" I knew by the second week in October he was toast.
Still now, after all that has come to pass, the Democrats in control of Congress, and they still can't put stop to the Republican nightmare. Can't even stand in opposition to it. Can't even define themselves in any meaningful way in opposition to it. Is it because they secretly AGREE with it?
I'm with Hell's Liberal. The Republicans mean to rip your throat out. Hey Democrats, ever heard of a spine? When are you ever going to start fighting? We want you to fight godamnit!