Letters to the Editor
drichmond
Published Letters: 235 Editor's Choice: 18
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on britney
[Read the article: The Fix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Kind of gives "oops I did it again" new meaning
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In too deep..
[Read the article: In too deep]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...bullshit.
I gave up watching network and local news over 30 years ago because of this kind of staged setup.
Now where are my hipwaders?
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two cents
[Read the article: Going beyond God]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have enjoyed this thread despite being dismayed at the occasional invective that has been thrown about. Now that a more civil tone has been reached I’ll add my two cents to the mix.
It seems to me, this is opinion that any discussion of the word “God” is nearly impossible, particularly in the United States, the culture, whether liberal or conservative is based on Puritan values brought to these shores over the span of several centuries. Many of our ancestors came to this country to escape religious persecution and to establish their own communities, ironically at times persecuting others. So pervasive is this ‘christian ethos’ that, again this is my opinion, it is as invisible as the telegraph poles that permeate our countryside. There but not noticed.
Our collective idea or conception of “God” almost always falls back into the, cue Sistine Chapel Slide, of Michelangelo’s vision of God. A ‘man’ with flowing beard creating the world and giving Adam life.
I personally think that to have any valuable conversation about religion or spirituality must almost without doubt banish the use of the word “God” as it is too loaded with cultural baggage to discuss rationally.
I guess for lack of a better word I would have to be labeled an agnostic. I live in a part of Brooklyn where you cannot throw a stone and not hit a church. Some of my closest friends are hardcore Christians, albeit African American or Caribbean, there is a difference on a social level in my experience. However I do bristle at the ‘literalness’ of which they take the bible.
I myself, having studied hardcore science in college and still maintain an active interest in it despite changing career paths, love the theory of evolution, string theory, quantum mechanics, etc but this rational discovery of the mystery of the ‘known’ universe does in no way diminish the poetry of life.
In short, whether there is a god or not does not matter to me. I can take an extremely rational position and at the end of the day (and the beginning of everyday actually) marvel that there is this thing called life. That I can eat, breathe, the sky is blue, my son is a joy, that coffee tastes delicious and that one day it will all be dust. To waste a single moment not being in this life, aware of its fragility and for lack of a better word ‘sacredness’ well is, following the tone. ‘sinful.’
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yeah right!
[Read the article: Queer behavior]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think Cohen is just trying to cop a feel.
Notice too that the over shoulder shot of the 'client' with the email bit says that he likes "Christian music.."
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please...
[Read the article: Coulter vs. Leno]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]don't slander mayo that way.
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ick
[Read the article: Happy Father's Day!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]just as well they don't pass on their genes.
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anyone
[Read the article: Bridal wave]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]yeah, anyone is replaceable and he should consider replacing her before the wedding goes through.
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smells like east germany
[Read the article: Is the NSA spying on U.S. Internet traffic?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]when the wall fell, sometime later it was revealed, discovered, ascertained that there were warehouses full of information stored on nearly every citizen within the eastern half, alright that may be a stretch but the point is that there was so much information coming in that they couldn't manage it, let alone look at it and I suspect the same is true here.
Perhaps they have a more accurate count of how many 'citizens' view porn web sites but I doubt they have the ability to do much with what they have other than store it all on massive hard drives for some future date to look at, a date that will probably never arrive.
As mentioned before, given their complete incompetence in handling events they have inklings of of beforehand; 911, Katrina, etc. I'm not going to lose too much sleep over it. And I look forward to the day that I can retrieve my personal dossier.
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vietnam
[Read the article: Surrealpolitik]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The major difference between the quagmire of Iraq and Vietnam, and it answers in part the apathy of the public in actively opposing the war is that there is no draft.
I had hoped that 911 would activate the 20 something generation of which I am old enough to be a parent of. But that and the general abdication of responsibility of people within my own generation, or is it just a feeling of malaise and impotence having witnessed the dream of the 68 turn to self-indulgent mush, has allowed our experiment in democracy to deteriorate to this sad and frightening state of affairs.
Want to get people active, reinstate the draft and better yet, make sure that every Republican talking head that babbled the same cut and run blather so poignantly illustrated by The Daily Show’s John Stewart this past week sends their sons and daughters to fight.
In fact reinstate the draft in such a way that the future Cheney’s, Bush’s, Rove’s, et al must serve and not in some cushy no show post or deferment but actual front line combat, and on top of that why don’t we try to get a constitutional amendment that states that no President can start a war with out having actively fought in combat.