Letters to the Editor
drichmond
Published Letters: 235 Editor's Choice: 18
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re: say what
[Read the article: The Internet is making us stupid]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well said and what comes to my mind in this time of polarization where are the opposites to these folk who get far more air time and legitimacy?
Ann Coulter
Sean Hannity
Bill O'Reilly
Lou Dobbs
etc
The increasingly extreme push by the right since Reagan (including our best Republican President Bill Clinton, just ask Greenspan) has made people like myself more vocal and defiant because it is a matter of survival. When people like Coulter can spew the hate filled murderous diatribes that she does and it goes unchecked, uncorrected and even applauded, well sorry it isn't Al Gore's internet to blame, it is the corporate and political stench that has infected this land.
That is not to say there isn't an echo chamber on both sides, there is and it is human nature, right or wrong.
However intelligent people on opposite sides of the divide usually are willingly to try dialogue but it is rare to find the airtime and secondly those able to discuss rationally and calmly, agreeing to disagree without it sinking into a form of "Jane you ignorant slut." Because it isn't entertaining enough or guarantees ratings
Finally NPR liberal, the NYTimes liberal?? Bill O'Reilly not polarizing? Good night and good luck.
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re: goeswithness
[Read the article: The Internet is making us stupid]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What are you some namby pamby liberal twist? How dare you make such accusations, why people like you....
I kid, I jest at your expense, my apologies. I agree whole heartedly and the antipathy is frightening.
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jeez
[Read the article: What was that again, Sen. Biden?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]911, 911, 911, 911, 911
talk about echo chambers!
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re: pciko
[Read the article: A Democrat in '08? In theory, yes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Given the blind venom that the conservatives and republicans went after Bill I think IMHO that it is easily conceivable that Hillary will have an even larger target painted on her. And as a progressive I find her repugnant on so many different levels, sad to say she and Schumer represent my state but not me.
but you did say one thing I have to respond to
"they have fought for thirty years to get where they are today."
that is true and what the democrats have failed to do is to unify like their opponents and fight at all, they have capitulated in fear of being seen as weak and ultimately that has shown them to be weak because they have no unifying principles that they as a group stand up for.
again my humble opinion, otherwise I think you raise valid points.
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picko
[Read the article: A Democrat in '08? In theory, yes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]thanks will keep an eye out for book
You mention valid points about democrats in other parts of the country, having lived in both northern Colorado and in Eugene, Oregon for most of the 80's and also having traveled extensively out west via old highways and biways, I know from first hand experience the different hats a politician of blue persuasion must wear.
And in regards to NY, many seem to think that we're some glorious or dangerous considering ones pov, liberal bastion. Well that might be true to some extent in NYC but looking at Spitzer's problems in Albany in regards to Bruno and the upstate republicans and then our own Senator pre-Schumer, the wonderful Alphonse, did I mention Pataki??
Well, NYS is not so liberal.
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spaghetti
[Read the article: Democrats in big, big trouble because of the Great Iraq War -- again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't you mean cooked because it sticks to walls, uncooked will just land on the floor for the cat or is it the shoe with mold to eat.
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Sister Mary Wrist Slap
[Read the article: We'll take that as a "no"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm still waiting for her to do even that!
Sure her name wasn't Sister Mary Slit Own Wrist
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runnin on empty
[Read the article: "I'm not going to paint a caricature"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was 'hopeful' in the beginning myself but he's missed key votes, he hasn't done anything of note, he hasn't spoken out
obama is just another empty suit.
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on photo
[Read the article: The cost of war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that photo should be sent to every one in congress and the senate, it needs no words.
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November 11th
[Read the article: The cost of war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is also Armistice Day in Europe where on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month there is a two minute silence to honor the 8 million dead from the Great War, WW One.
as we seem to march slowly? to WW Three.
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some people like fascists with false "facts"
[Read the article: Rudy Giuliani's anti-urban ad?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since a picture is worth a thousand words
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Giuliani_crime_rate.png
I guess il Rudé would take credit for Newark's more remarkable drop in violent crime too!?
I remember Rudy's regime all to well.
Amadou Diallo****Patrick Dorismond****Abner Louima
and all of the other little niceties of his fascist tendencies, the attempt to close the Brooklyn Museum, his attempt to stay on after 911.
Trying to assign credit to Rudy where little is due and at the same time telling people to shut the fuck up.. The subways were already clean within Koch's time and the little Darfur on the Hudson line, yeah guess which line of the racist you're on, don't forget your hood at the next klan meeting.
well some are just born assholes aren't they and maybe they should be the ones to shut the fuck up.
And a'hole, I live 4 blocks from where that young 18 year old was shot the other day by the cops and I've seen their community policing and I'll tell you what it has much to be desired.
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quotes
[Read the article: Romney and Huckabee's religious intolerance ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Today Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity .. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit ... We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past ... (few) years.
- Adolf Hitler, quoted in: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, 1922-1939, Vol. 1 (London, Oxford University Press, 1942), pg. 871-872
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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, Introduction