Letters to the Editor
Renegade Iconoclast
Published Letters: 649 Editor's Choice: 11
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The elephant in the bedroom
[Read the article: "We're all fascists now"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I will first stipulate right upfront that I agree with you that there are lots of places on the right where this is so, and I don't like that stuff either ... That said, I don't think that the equation between liberalism and conservatism goes as far as you would like to take it. You know, you have environmental groups giving out kits and instructions about how to have environmentally conscious sex. You don't have conservative groups talking about what kind of condoms you should use or what positions you can be in. That kind of thing doesn't really go on.
Well, where do we start with this mess?
I guess I'll give it a shot.
WTF is environmentally conscious sex? I'm a liberal, and I've never heard of it. You know what I have heard of? Right wingers decrying homosexuality as a disease, as the harbinger of the moral decay of our entire society, as the prime ill that will rip apart the fabric of our republic. You know who else did that? Nazis. (can't I bend Godwin's law just this once? It's true!)
Conservatives don't want to tell us what kind of condoms to use, they want to tell us that we can't use them at all. They want to safeguard pharmacists who refuse to prescribe the birth control pill. They push abstinence only sex education (also known as teen pregnancy bonanza extravaganza).
They don't want to tell us what sexual positions to be in? Are you kidding me? Where do you think the term, "missionary position," comes from, liberals? They go far beyond telling us what position to have our sex in, they want to tell us what kind of sex we can have! In many states, "sodomy" was illegal until very recently, and included oral sex. You know who changed that? Liberals, that's who!
To anon: thanks for your kind message. We're not so far from agreement as you seem to think, but this isn't the forum.
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Damning with faint praise
[Read the article: "We're all fascists now"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And you say you're not calling liberals Nazis, but...
I must say it 25 times in the book.
The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answered it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest, -- For Brutus is an honorable man; So are they all, all honorable men
Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honorable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor had cried, Caesar hath wept. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honorable man.
See how that works?
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Wow Elephantman!
[Read the article: Was the New Hampshire vote stolen?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For once you have a point.
I'll preface my comment by saying that I think anyone who dismisses conspiracy theories out of hand, just because they're conspiracy theories, is a complete moron. People conspire. They do it all the time. Everyone here has conspired to do something, lie to the brother in law, lie to the boss, look the other way in tacit agreement for someone else to look the other way later on, etc, etc. Why is it automatic that when someone says the word, "conspiracy," everyone scoffs. I could point out numerous, proven (beyond doubt) conspiracies in government over the years, but I don't want to get too far off topic. Well, okay, one quickie: the American Revolution was a conspiracy.
The point is that Elephantman is right to cry foul that people are so quick to theorize some Republican uber-conspiracy to throw the NH primary to Clinton, especially with no hard evidence whatsoever. First of all, exit polls aren't a perfect science even when they work well. Second of all, the stakes so small you really do need a tinfoil hat to think Karl Rove is stealing NH.
Ohio in 2004 is a different story. There was quite a bit of monkey business going on even if the machines were on the level, voter suppression, polls closing early in poor areas, and similar shenanigans. Combine that with the CEO of Diebold's now infamous statement that he was dedicated to delivering Ohio's electoral votes to Bush, and you have a completely suspect, completely different landscape.
My strong gut feel is that this was just a close one. But even if my gut said fraud, I'd keep my mouth shut about it until solid evidence of fraud emerged, and any other responsible person should too. You don't do the election reform movement any favors by screaming foul at the slightest provocation, such as exit polls within the margin of error.
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I tried to troll Ann Coulter's site
[Read the article: Help! I'm an Internet troll!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Although, by "troll," I mean, honestly and intelligently debunk her nonsense.
I was able to post twice. After that, the forum started behaving very badly for me. I could read posts (just barely), but I couldn't post, and I noticed that dozens of others had no problem responding to me. I suspected sabotage of my account specifically. Seems paranoid, even to me, a hopeless paranoid, but I wonder...
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Damn
[Read the article: The Noxious Fruits of Hate Speech laws]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So where I'm I gonna move to when Clinton wins the nomination and gets defeated by McCain in the general election?
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Anon, I hate to nitpick, but
[Read the article: Help! I'm an Internet troll!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Shouldn't there be a comma somewhere in that sentence?
Oh, and why post that anonymously?
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Nah. Try again.
[Read the article: The Clinton-Obama contest gets rougher]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but it is a telling symbol of change that the white male is running third.
Actually it's a telling symbol of business as usual. The white female and the black male are both a lot better funded, and both are taking corporate money.
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Stars
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think the answer is that the author picks the stars. They're merely misnamed as editor stars. Some authors are more honest about it than others.
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Great!
[Read the article: Scott Bateman: Hungry like hell and in love with a cockroach]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Very, very funny.