Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 140 Editor's Choice: 18
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Dark Shadows:
[Read the article: Leahy to Rove: It's not over]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As the Turd Turns, these are the Days of Our Lives.
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Rove: "I'm Tartuffe...
[Read the article: Coming soon: Karl Rove as Jesus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...and everybody else is just an eater."
And Bush is a voracious reader. Butt.
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Arc de Triomphe
[Read the article: How secure are you? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm confused. Is this about Petraeus taking a whiz on Youtube? Who's in the Cretan jar? Will Drudge-linkers be able to handle the lack of actual drugs within the drug references? Is it an aural moebius strip? Is it ok to have whiplash?
Will any of this be on the test?
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Elephantman's got a point
[Read the article: Dan Rather stands by his story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This story isn't really about the merits of the case or the facts at hand. It isn't about Bush being a shirker and a wastrel; not about abuse of the airwaves to slander investigators who get too close to the truth. Not about damage control and hoodwinking the public. Nor about a specious war touted by armchair weasels and enabled by corporate handlers.
It's about sphincters. A long, long, long line of sphincters. And horseshit, old-school.
Go Sydney, and go, go, go Dan!
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Wow
[Read the article: Red, white and mercenary in Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A private, corporate-financed army, loyal to only one political party. Now there's a bold turn for the U S of A.
A great piece, Mr. Blumenthal, thank you. And Slackie Onassis hit the nail on the head: when Blackwaters go unemployed in 2008.......our very own, real Republican Guard.
Perhaps I should say, if.
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This is spin
[Read the article: Stop your sobbing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]for the purpose of selling a book, or a career. It has nothing to do with clarity or reason; it is posturing, and it is picayune. Gore's great achievement - Nobel, please - was to take a complicated, virulently ignored and urgent subject and make it a household phrase. It has entered the consciousness of Americans in just a few years, and now exists as a real topic, with anyone free to offer meaningful solutions. The authors might have done this, rather than merely positioning themselves for media ops. That doesn't just make them contrarians - it makes them jerks.
Gore's argument does not end with doom, it ends with the possibility of solutions, of communal action, and even success, like our moonwalks. To have self-knowledge of the results of one's actions, as a species and a culture, and to act on this wisely, is potentially another giant step for mankind.
Did these guys, like la Paglia, not watch the movie?
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Best and brightest
[Read the article: "Seven countries in five years"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So this means that when hawks lump the Middle East together and say "Radical Islam" has declared de facto war on us - we can now proudly say our Radical American Regime got there, unofficially, first.
Way to put the pro in pro-active.
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Sweet and timely
[Read the article: Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and it goes to the IPCC and Al Gore.
Bravo scientists! Bravo Mr. Gore!
Ring those bells.
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Some say matches are more important than bombs.
[Read the article: Quick, somebody bomb Iran!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's look at the facts, and then let's grab a bite to eat. Some say that the size and frequency of these fires are in fact tied to global warming. And didn't global warming start getting some hard press right as Al-Qaida became a household word? Coincidence? These guys don't even know how to spell it.
Everybody knows Southern California has been indundated in the last 25 years with immigrants from all over the word - the very same world where Al-Qaida plies its trade. 2+2, people! 4!
I live in the Southland, as it's sometimes biblically called, and I've definitely seen Al-Qaida sorts, tons of them - all the little grocery store owners could easily pass for Al-Qaida. Dry-cleaners too. And they all have families, don't they? Some say that the head Al-Qaidas are nephews and cousins and even brothers of prominent Saudi families. That's nephews, cousins.......i.e. families, as in, they could be anywhere!
Look: blood hatred and subterfuge are not easy topics. They never were, and they aren't now either. Or ever. Probably never will be. At least that's my opinion, welcome to it, and so on. But I agree with the writer who says we should spend more time looking for matches than bombs. It's faster, easier and more to the godamned point. And I definitely agree that we should take a closer look at Ann Coulter. Some people say that her website just posted a confession that she's been putting on much of the hatred she's spewed over the last few years, as if she was some sort of covert operator. That's operator, gentlemen, as in dangerous at any speed. CIA. Don't make me spell it out. I'm hungry.
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Only connect, sort of
[Read the article: The Borgesian open-access library ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Taken to its logical conclusion, the Blogosphere is indeed like an infinite hall of mirrors, expressing an ever-expanding multitude of world views, reflecting each other obliquely into infinity. None are true, all are true. And reading them only takes forever.
Natural growth towards complexity and individuation. Fractal blogging.
I loved the image in a recent post of the Google blinking and twitching as it organizes the world. Globalization of the nervous system. An e-campaign for Borges for president. Or a draft for Ko Un, writing a poem about every person he's ever met.
Nice post, Mr. Leonard.
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Hollow men
[Read the article: Bush's old world disorder]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Habeas lawyers" as an epitaph or even a joke is chilling. The path to there, from Bush Sr.'s recent emotional, moving depiction of Gulf War standards toward a captured enemy ("We're not going to harm you, we're American soldiers."), is deeply disturbing. How so far, so fast?
It's not just the perfect vacuum that Bush Jr. sets at the center of our malaise, it's the anti-sterling quality of those who push their rotten agendas through his unaware, uncaring void.
It's the qualities they are not: Kagan is not the cocksure predator he wants to be; Max Boot is not enlightened; Musharraf is not Nixon, much less Lincoln; Rice is nowhere near Acheson. Only Cheney is who he really is, hiding in plain sight - a complete and utter user, and villain, where the rest are just fools.
"Habeas lawyers." Can we ever recover from that?
Thankyou Mr. Blumenthal for underscoring that particularly nasty truth so well.