Letters to the Editor
Ossifer Mancuso
Published Letters: 34 Editor's Choice: 1
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Usage of "poofed hair"
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Another instance of usage of the word "poofed" in reference to hair and not homosexuality: http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/72921
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The Most Cringe-Inducing Thing About Gay Men
[Read the article: Peggy Noonan is a serious "grown-up"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The most cringe-inducing thing about gay men is their terrible, self-hating self-centeredness. In the world their minds inhabit, everything anyone says is a catty cut at the gay man. They must listen with four ears at all times, in all places, for fear of missing a dig. It's a shame. Those gay men, many of whom seem otherwise intelligent (thought not, frankly, well-adjusted) become distinguished by their extreme cattiness - none more so that Glenn Greenwald.
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An Open and Shut Case, based on the evidence
[Read the article: Peggy Noonan is a serious "grown-up"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mr. Greenwald wrote, "John Edwards...was caught red-handed brushing his hair before a television appearance -- "poofing," in Noonan's words, which isn't really a word at all, but rather, a British epithet for a male homosexual -- "Slang: Disparaging and Offensive" -- a synonym for "faggot.""
He is well refuted by huxleyscat, who replied with straightforward prose that lawyer Greenwald can only envy, "Since most Americans aren't British it seems fair to think that the common usage of poofing your hair would prevail. Now maybe for the most part it is women who poof their hair but I think to me and most Americans the phrase is synonymous with primping."
And yes, "Angelo Mancuso is an inept police officer, the nephew of Santa Battaglia. The sergeant in charge is angry with him, and he must somehow make a major bust to avoid being kicked off the force, being reduced to wear ridiculous disguises, and spending time in the bus station toilets in order to arrest "suspicious characters"" as bystander so helpfully quotes from Wikipedia.
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@ DogFather
[Read the article: Peggy Noonan is a serious "grown-up"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]DogFather, I think you'd enjoy more serenity in your liberalism if you could just bring yourself to abandon the idea that the U.S.A. is some unique gift of God or Darwin to global political discourse.
Much as I love my country, I never forget that her prosperity as of about 1863 was built on near genocide against native Americans, and on the last instance of chattel slavery among European and European-descended nations. And anyone who supposes that wealth and prosperity in 2007 is unrelated to wealth and prosperity in 1863 just doesn't grasp the frame of mind that fruitfully encounters historical evidence.
Like other peoples, the American people bring to the table good things and bad. One of the worst things they bring to the table is insufferable pride.
You wrote (under the heading, "Thoughts on 'an armed society is a polite society'"): "If nothing else, Bush's administration has shown us what happens when a man is untethered from the limitations of public scrutiny. Every action by said administration has been taken with as little public recognition as possible. What has it brought us? Torture, wars of aggression, and a massive transference of wealth from the public coffers to private accounts. Is that America?"
And "The key difference, the difference that supposedly sets America apart from the rest, is that there are laws and rules that would prevent me from doing so."
How do American laws and rules set us apart from, say, England, or Australia, or Sweden, or Norway, or India?
We Americans would do the world a great favor by ridding ourselves of our ethnocentric "American exceptionalism". And I think you're right on the verge of understanding that.
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Big Brother Creeping Bit by Bit
[Read the article: Oligarchical decay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was going to say, "Thank heavens we can still bellyache about this here". Then I thought, "No, it's gone too far already." I'm with Glenn on this crap.
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Disingenuous
[Read the article: Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds warn of "social unraveling" if Obama loses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is a disingenuous Greenwald post like his Peggy Noonan post. The Florida "riot" the lawyer refers to was not accompanied by riots by white people in suits and ties in Detroit, Baltimore, and New Orleans. And the most recent riots in Detroit, Baltimore and New Orleans were far more deadly than the little kerfuffle that Republican lawyers managed in Florida. Nice try, Glenn.
By the way, I'm particularly mean-spirited tonight because the Steelers lost.
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The Great Undressed
[Read the article: Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds warn of "social unraveling" if Obama loses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I could care less about public nudity. I do enjoy Greenwald because I have a sneaking suspicion that if the fascists ever come for me, they will have already come for Glenn, and perhaps I will meet him. I am sick to death that the nation which claims me as a member by the happenstance of my birth feels free to torture human beings and to tax me in order to do so. I like Glenn's column, and if I may be excused, I feel free to express myself forcefully when it honks me off.
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As you wish, LWM
[Read the article: Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds warn of "social unraveling" if Obama loses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As you wish.
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Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree with Anyone Else but Me
[Read the article: Obama co-chairman: Clinton didn't cry for Katrina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Did Jesse Jr. just say that black Democrats in South Carolina will now vote against Mrs. Clinton because she did *not* cry over Katrina? That is truly a bizarre argument, an utterly classless effort to twist a racially-irrelevant event (Mrs. Clinton tearing up) into a racially charged story. The Jackson apple hasn't fallen far from the Jackson/Sharpton tree. I thought that this was the sort of thing Mr. Obama was conspicuous for *not* engaging in. If he wishes to remain conspicuous in that regard he should unequivocally dissociate himself from Jr's intemperate blather.