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Published Letters: 232 Editor's Choice: 19
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Strike!
[Read the article: The gay voter's guide to the GOP]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]General Strike! Tuesday, November 6, 2007!
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/10/0081720
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Strike!
[Read the article: Apathy rules?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]General Strike! Tuesday, November 6, 2007!
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/10/0081720
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Strike!
[Read the article: Profiles in Democratic cowardice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]General Strike! Tuesday, November 6, 2007!
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/10/0081720
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Strike!
[Read the article: Are Democrats planning still worse FISA capitulations?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]General Strike! Tuesday, November 6, 2007!
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/10/0081720
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Strike!
[Read the article: Leaving Baghdad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]General Strike! Tuesday, November 6, 2007!
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/10/0081720
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Strike!
[Read the article: Is Star Simpson's "fake bomb" just an art jacket?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]General Strike! Tuesday, November 6, 2007!
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/10/0081720
Pass it on!
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Strike!
[Read the article: Bush's stairway to paradise]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]General Strike! Tuesday, November 6, 2007!
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/10/0081720
Pass it on!
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Strike!
[Read the article: Invading Iraq, revisited and then revised]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]General Strike! Tuesday, November 6, 2007!
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/10/0081720
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Make My Day
[Read the article: The relevant president]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This Congress, and certainly not the 109th Congress, has denied Bush anything he's asked for. That they haven't is why the polling numbers for the 110th is below that of the Unitary King Bush.
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Comity, anyone?
[Read the article: The Internet is making us stupid]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If Sunstein's thesis is valid, that in some golden past in the United States political culture, where there was an unavoidable discourse of diverse views in presumably the unavoidable plethora of print, and all somehow absorbed and pondered by extremists from both sides that brought forth the best impulses in people, then how do you explain the Civil War?
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@gregrocker...
[Read the article: The Internet is making us stupid]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Spot on dude. Every word! These fuzzy headed ivory tower types, Christian propagandists and popular writers in America always dreaming up some perfect golden past of the United States where every one got along and believed in Jesus and understood each others' views. It's pure fantasy. No such period ever existed in this nation's history. This has always been a backwards, uncivilized, redneck, partisan, sectarian, violent nation, and an ungrateful one to boot toward those who do their best to bring the good news of civilization. For most of our history, the process put in place by the founders to prevent one of the bubble headed morons from rising to the highest offices in the land worked pretty well most of the time, and when it didn't there was always Congress to dilute the impact. What they didn't count on was one of them coming from their own patrician class at the same time the jesus freaks (who have always been with us) traded in their white sheets for suits, learned how to talk, got a university degree from some backwater, holy hell-fire, swamp water religious school and then got a bunch of themselves elected to Congress.
The culture of the United States has always been bi-polar and sczhoid. The uses Americans make of the internet merely amplify that. If Mr. Sustein's thesis holds water then the same thing ought to be happening in other countries. The world is not fragmenting because of the internet. The world is fragmenting because of the ever increasing world population, the downward spiral of natural resources, the ever present and increasing competition and squabble over energy sources and the rise of religious fundamentalism of every stripe throughout the world.
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Does gender matter?
[Read the article: Queen Hillary's disruptive court]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]ER: "Pelosi, Clinton, Feinstein, Boxer, Eshoo, Lofgren, etc: all the "great" women who were going to do things differently have simply and continuously voted for the crap that I hate: Torture. War. Domestic spying."
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History has repeatedly shown that women in positions of power, like men, will vote their class and not their gender, every time. The feminist ideal that everything would be different if only women ruled is a fantasy with no merit in reality whatsoever. History says otherwise. Women are just like men when it comes to power, money and privilege. That isn't a reason NOT to vote for them, but if you vote for a woman believing that she's somehow going be more compassionate, more understanding, less war mongering, more interested in the personal well being and happiness of everyday citizens, simply because she's a woman, you're a fool.
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Yawn
[Read the article: What you missed while watching "Project Runway"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]These things are not real debates. They're public soliloquies served up to entertain, not inform. It's about jokes and clever responses and personal attacks and who's the best at one-uping the other. It's television. It's even bad television which is why most people would rather watch infomercials instead. There is no such thing as a journalist on TV anymore, they're all entertainers. So are the politicians. It's American presidential politics so it's a popularity contest based on hair and style, not on what the issues are and what the candidates are proposing to do about them and what that would mean.
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Marquez 10, Filmmaker 0
[Read the article: "Love in the Time of Cholera"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The only good film adaptation of a Marquez story was "The Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her Evil Grandmother". Irene Papas played the grandmother. It wasn't made my americans of course. Every time somebody takes up the challenge to set one of Marquez's fabulous tales to film, I cringe. I can only pray that it isn't an American director and crew that try it. Please, I pray, if they have to put it on film, let it be Latin American or European producers/directors, even an Asian one would do better than an American would.
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Sexists 'R Us
[Read the article: Diamonds and pearls and the b-word]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, it's sexism. All of it. The "b" word, the Campbell baloney and the student's dumb question. All of it coming from women, smart women. Women are so sexist. I still don't trust Senator Clinton to make any meaningful changes in the status quo.
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Not again
[Read the article: Interviews with AP executives on the Bilal Hussein travesty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The neocons, both in and outside the military, believe the U.S. lost Vietnam because the military didn't control the flow of information to the U.S. public. They aren't about to let that happen in Iraq.