Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 2031 Editor's Choice: 74
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R. Sousa
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt and the "Triumphant Top Gun"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think you meant your comment for the other thread, the one from today...
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Sorry, atalex
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt and the "Triumphant Top Gun"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was trying to combine my agreement about asking the Rapture question with a humorous observation... but not to make light of the importance of the question.
Rather, the second part was a commentary on our even having to ask that question. I was merely stringing together a series of comments, one of which did include the 2007 date (and I inferred that it included the other two points), and, well, the absurdity of it all just bubbled up and... there you have it.
I can see how that might be jarring in print without the benefit of tone.
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"a professor at the University of Maryland who specializes in integrated pest management
[Read the article: The latest word on GM crops and honeybees]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hmmm... why does this description bother me? Oh, yeah... the use of the word "pest," to describe an expert, in a story about honeybees.
"Integrated pest management?" I'll bet there's a bit more to that term than meets the eye, too.
I don't want to jump to conclusions, either, but my bias radar is beeping just a little bit.
Off to google now...
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Ai yai yaiii
[Read the article: The latest word on GM crops and honeybees]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I really cannot believe I wrote that!
The expert was NOT described as a "pest," but the word was used to describe his area of expertise: integrated pest managment.
My point was intended to be that "Bees" are NOT "Pests," and perhaps consulting with an expert in pest management might inadvertently mean some bias... but then the syntax escaped me.
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It's getting late on the east coast
[Read the article: The right's explicit and candid rejection of "the rule of law"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and before retiring, I just want to say thanks
to WT for his eloquent defense of Roe v Wade, because the issue really is about whether women will have agency to participate in the world at large
and because that argument/issue is particularly relevant, since Harvey Mansfield is in the foreground, and given his influence on gender issues, and the politics that grows from that mindset
if you want to know whether a government is of the willing, you have only to look at the place of women, and whether they really have the same personal freedom that men do;
and why should it always be l
and to SysProg, and LWM, and Kitt, and Jill, and Kovie, and anyone else I've forgotten, for keeping the dialogue going and the Constitution alive for another day, and especially for elevating the trollish discourse here (compared with elsewhere), but perhaps kdwmson played a roll in that, too;
(SysProg: do you also have some kind of chart showing the correspondences between the GOP's talking points and those adopted by Trolls?)
and bebop-o for keeping us sane
and whoever or whatever I've missed while writing this.
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Yikes, a longer typo!
[Read the article: The right's explicit and candid rejection of "the rule of law"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ignore that part about "why should it always be l" (that's an L, not an I)... some thought that I decided to let go, but forgot to delete.
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Simon Says...
[Read the article: The Politico: Exhibit A for our broken political press]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...surely you must appreciate that not everyone acts with your degree of ideological motivation..."
Rewrite: "...surely you must appreciate that not everyone acts with your degree of idealistic (i.e., ethical) motivation..."
There-- that's better!
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Another photo-op
[Read the article: The Politico: Exhibit A for our broken political press]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]for GG's readers, that is:
http://www.politico.com/reporters/RogerSimon.html
Because Glenn takes the high road, he would never mention that perhaps Simon is simply jealous of Edwards' hair. How else to explain Simon's simple suggestion on how to make the story go away:
Here is the solution: He auctions off his hair on eBay, he gives the money to charity and then he shaves his head every day for the rest of the campaign.
People will appreciate this. And he won't have to deal with any more accusations that he is a "pretty boy" or a "Breck Girl."
Bald works, senator. Ask me about it.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0507/3802.html
[emphasis mine]
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And...
[Read the article: The right's explicit and candid rejection of "the rule of law"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]abortions became illegal, not for any "moral" reason, but because women were dying from unsafe procedures.
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Thanks for the shorter version, IntrovertGirl
[Read the article: The Politico: Exhibit A for our broken political press]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was debating whether to try and catch up with all of the comments that I missed while I was out tonight... but I'm thinking you may have saved me some time. Maybe over the weekend, I'll have time to catch up with it...
In the meantime, I just love Lewis Lapham-- my favorite part of that essay was this:
Assume that we have nothing else with which to build the future except the lumber of the past, and the loss of historical consciousness cheats us of our inheritance. "He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living hand to mouth," said Goethe, and so suggested a restructuring of the deal that Satan offered Faust. It isn't with magic that men make their immortality; they do so with what on the long journey across the frontiers of three millenia they can salvage from the death of cities and the wreck of empires, reconfiguring the record left to them in the form of casualty reports and quadratic equations, on ships' logs and bronze coins, as epic poems and totem poles and painted ceilings, in confessions voluntary and coerced, as proclamations, prophecies, and prayers, in five-act plays and three-part songs.
The commenters on this blog do a bit of that... with the help of Lexis, the google and the internets.