Letters to the Editor
wkiernan
Published Letters: 6 Editor's Choice: 1
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But Rush's listeners don't mind at all
[Read the article: Is Rush Limbaugh next?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The "force" which pushed Imus out of his job has nothing to do with government. He got canned because the networks decided he was going to cost them lost advertising revenue.
Now Rush Limbaugh lost his job as a sports-caster on ESPN when he claimed that Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, who is black, owed his celebrity to some kind of "affirmative action." But that's because there are a lot of black sports fans, and they were not obviously going to listen to racist idiocy like that. Since Limbaugh's was chasing off listeners, he was costing the ESPN network a great deal of advertising money. Boom, out of a job, just that quick.
But consider the "ditto-heads" (his term, not mine!) that listen to the Rush Limbaugh talk-radio show! Rush and his "ditto-head" community are one big racist love-in. There's no anti-minority comment he could make to an audience like that, no matter how dishonest or disgusting in nature, which would drive off so many as a tenth of percent of them. They agree with the most malodorous of Limbaugh's innumerable racist cracks. That's what they like best about Limbaugh - that he's a mean racist swine just like them.
So provided he can restrain himself from saying anything blatantly actionable, I think Limbaugh is perfectly safe from the market forces that fell upon Imus last month.
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Warn your kids about the cops
[Read the article: Should I tell my kids about all the drugs I used to do?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All these letters yet no one has mentioned the most dangerous part of kids messing around with illegal drugs, which is, of course, the police. There's a gigantic multi-billion dollar industry in the U.S.A. devoted to mercilessly, viciously abusing people who take drugs. Not warning your children about the constant dire threat from drug warriors is like neglecting to tell them to look out for traffic when they cross the street.
Not taking drugs at all won't even do your kids any good; ask the Tulia 46 or Patrick Dorismond - or rather, his next of kin.
What every parent needs to make explicitly clear to his children is that drug cops always lie like they breathe and cannot ever be trusted under any circumstances, that they are never on your side, and they will stop at nothing in their desire to kidnap and imprison unoffending citizens, to rob them their property, and to destroy their future.
Of course, none of the above applies to multi-millionaires! If you are a multi-millionaire then any and all drugs are effortlessly accessible and perfectly legal, and you are free to indulge and overindulge even in public. In fact, even when you binge out and have to be carted off to rehab, the entertainment media will still make a popular hero out of you.
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why pick on Priuses?
[Read the article: Who needs a Prius anyway?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm reading an article which suggests that one must be crazy to spend $23,000 on this particular car. This is maybe the twentieth article I've read "debunking" the Prius. I myself would like to own a Prius, because I am a lifelong car-nut and the technology under the hood is awesome; while I'm fantasizing about cars I can't afford, I'd also like to own a Porsche Cayman. Now if it's irrational to spend $23,000 on a car when you can get a somewhat inferior but roughly comparable car for $16,000, then I must be stark raving mad to want to spend $75,000 on a Cayman that doesn't even have a back seat. Yet unlike Prius drivers, Porsche enthusiasts are not constantly bombarded with articles criticizing their financial good sense because they own a wastefully costly luxury sports car. What is it about Priuses that makes people who don't own them so itchy?
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New Orleans
[Read the article: My wife keeps cheating but we have two kids. Should I leave her?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I had this girl, threatened to leave me all the time. Threatened to go down to New Orleans and get herself lost and found.
Run. Run! Run!
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the difference
[Read the article: The double standard of student-teacher sex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Girls get pregnant.
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shhh! don't tell McCain
[Read the article: The Politico claims the Iraq war will help McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let him believe Politico and the egg man. I'd love to see McCain campaign on the success of the war in Iraq. I want to see him gather the war in his arms and tell the voters, "People, your favorite President George's pet war is my dearest delight! Elect me and and your sons and daughters in the service will never come home! Elect me and America will get a hundred years more of wars just like it! My fellow Americans, if you enjoyed these last eight wonderful years and want more more more of the same, vote for me! Four more years!"