Letters to the Editor
brdsht
Published Letters: 17 Editor's Choice: 1
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Why?
[Read the article: Multiracial man]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sorry for not reading the whole article, but I don't see a reason for even trying to read Obama's candidacy in terms of race. The irrelevancy of questions like this is something I worked and prayed for since I first saw photographs of black people being attacked with dogs and fire hoses.
I'm with the kids on this, folks.
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The new frankness about onanism
[Read the article: How does a single father ever get laid?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The rubber vagina is something we did not have to hear about. And you are surrounded by friendly women who seem interested in you. Do something hopelessly retrograde--ask one of them out.
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Pre-adolescent fantasy
[Read the article: "Jumper"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hannaham's account of the plot of Jumper reminds me of the fantasies when I was eleven and lying in bed waiting for the smell of breakfast on Saturday mornings. It was better than the cartoons, and eventually this reverie was displaced the pleasures and pressures of high school. Sometimes I worry that we American men will never grow up.
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Conciliator?
[Read the article: The most left-wing president since Nixon?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Interesting how even The Economist has latched onto the myth of Obama as negotiator and conciliator. The myth may be true but it is still largely untested.
The strength of Obama is his ability to raise consensus through his rhetoric, optimism, and inclusiveness, and his apparent incorruptibility. Add to that his timing--after eight years of the lies of compassionate conservativism, war, and Bush's vacillation between obstreperous cowboy rhetoric and the deer in the headlights, most moderates will be quite willing to include themselves in Obama's optimistic self-assurance.
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Farewell, my lovely
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]nerdbird explains it more thoroughly than I ever could. Capitalism is OK as long as it gets a swift kick in the pants once in a while. Free market fundamentalists should chill and let the government do its job.