Letters to the Editor
that guy, you know the one
Published Letters: 7
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you know...
[Read the article: Real men eat asparagus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]my ancestors didn't fight, claw, and scratch their way to the top of the food chain so I could eat vegetables.
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third dude guy man...
[Read the article: Real men eat asparagus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Brussel Sprouts are cabbage.
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actually --rupert_c, not to nit pick...
[Read the article: "There needs to be a citizens revolt"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but Network was released by MGM initially, and its video and dvd distribution has been handled by Warner Brothers, which means that in some way, shape, or form it has been intimately involved with the MSM...again, not to nit pick.
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Network...
[Read the article: "There needs to be a citizens revolt"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jensen: You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it!! Is that clear?! You think you've merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance!
You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multi-national dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, Reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels.
It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU WILL ATONE!
Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?
You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.
What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state -- Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do.
We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality -- one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.
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Nice!
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Awesomest This Modern World that ever awesomed!
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Mr. Dirks, regarding Constitutional Civics...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]High School class of '94 here. Got to echo UsedtobeKristin on the Civics/Econ load at my Southwest GA High School. Pretty much everyone had to take it their freshman year, but in truth, each of these classes were taught by the Houghton Mifflin Company and chaperoned by "Teachers" (if I remember correctly, one was a Coach that was counting the days till his retirement.) "Class, quiet down, open your books, read Chapter whatever, there will be a quiz on Friday." Still and all, at least the indifference was bi-partisan.
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Wow...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]First off, congratulations to Team Japan. And job well done to both teams....
"Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville— mighty Casey has struck out."
-Ernest Thayer