Letters to the Editor
Baldie McEagle
Published Letters: 992 Editor's Choice: 3
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@che pasa
[Read the article: The banality of the surveillance state]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for the historical context slash reality check. Unfortunately, it suggests the abuses will get worse before they go too far and are stopped---but they will be stopped.
BTW, my Amazon recommendations are not "kooky" yet but have been getting more subversive lately. I feel sure the FBI is behind this, trying to tempt me with more and more salacious materials---books about the fall of the American empire, and so on.
What else could it be?
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Elephantman has made it official
[Read the article: Exclusive capitulation report: House Democratic leadership circulates FISA bill]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The GOP has abandoned truth, justice, and the American way in favor of power.
Glad it's clear now. No more complaining from elephants is allowed, when we call them craven authoritarians.
And speaking of literature, I happen to be reading Bend Sinister (Nabokov) at the moment. It's fun to toggle between novel and newspaper on the train in to work in the morning.
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The problem with this behavior
[Read the article: Tucker Carlson unintentionally reveals the role of the American press]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]*However,* in this one lone case, I feel like Power's remark should have been taken off the record, and I believe I'd say the same if it was a Republican. There is a standard in this country of granting interview with the occasional comment offered off the record, and the "off the record" mention itself seems to come naturally--it's not like she said "oh hell! I can't believe I just said that!"
is that it creates a situation in which politician and reporter are, for a moment, co-conspirators. And that's a slippery slope.
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well said!
[Read the article: Signs of life from House Democratic leaders]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When Big Brother has his hand on your XXXX or your XXX or your XXXXX, it may already be too late to say "no."
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You forgot:
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some people post details of their lives on MySpace, therefore few, if any, of anyone's personal details remain "private."
---David Kerr
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@tomemos
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You have a very good point. Just because a (relatively) few people have had mass sex with dozens of total strangers, all at once, and resulting in their bloody and undeserved deaths, doesn't mean we should outlaw sex.
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Grasping the concept of legalization
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It correct to point out that expensive call girls are romanticized by Hollywood, which already has its own parallel star(let) system, and that this view does not reflect reality. You often read of women stripping their way through college, but I am prepared to believe that call girls do not share their success rate.
Also, I have met women who have worked in other not-quite-sex sex work, and they more resemble strippers in their outlook than they do hookers. I do think there is a "psychic damage" aspect to the job that can't be dismissed.
However, keep in mind that all this goes on in an illegal or at best semilegal and highly stigmatized milieu. If hookers were treated like lawyers, they would fare much differently than they do, psychologically and financially.
In other words, the psychic damage of prostitution is an argument for legalization, not against it, in my view.
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@tomemos
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree completely. Just because a few people use dynamite to kill large numbers of people, that doesn't mean we shouldn't give it to children to play with.
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Um, no
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Guns don't suffer psychic damage from following an illegitimate and objectivizing trade.
I'm not sure what you are supporting, but you sure do know how to compare apples to oranges.
Good logic otherwise, though.
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@tomemos
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree with your reading, and generally, I agree with your reasoning. A few bad apples should not be allowed to spoil a barrel. Unless, you know, mass death is a likely potential result.
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If it's a question of degree
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]then you should be suggesting regulation.
Of course prostitutes should be regulated. Because AIDS DOES kill people.
Assault weapons should be regulated as well. Limitations such as age, ability, sanity, etc. are all common sense variables. Or even just a name and an address.
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it's all Obama's fault
[Read the article: High-level right-wing discourse]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He keeps appearing in public in blackface!
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Hats off to the Elephant Man
[Read the article: House Democrats reject telecom amnesty, warrantless surveillance]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Look past his disfigured appearance, people. Behind the horrible tumors and growths, there beats the heart of a MAN.
A man with such an iron will that he can stand day after day before audiences who mock and jeer, who have paid good coin to gaze upon the storied freak with their own eyes, and still return for performance after performance, unbowed and undiminished.
Tell me more about this Sunstein "expert," Sir Elephant Man. Tell me why he isn't running for president. Explain to us how it is that Obama, hapless fool that he is, has not hired an adviser with whom he disagrees to advise him in his campaign.
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Who are you talking to,
[Read the article: House Democrats reject telecom amnesty, warrantless surveillance]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Elephant Man?
And what have you been reading?
Whose radio show have you been listening to?
Oh, never mind.
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@raymundohpl
[Read the article: House Democrats reject telecom amnesty, warrantless surveillance]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are you The Major's good twin??
If so, welcome!
Aside: I _STILL_ don't know what bucky's position is half the time. But I do know he hates LWM so much the old goat's sarcasm escapes him.
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"Villainize" vs "demystify"?
[Read the article: House Democrats reject telecom amnesty, warrantless surveillance]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not trying to villainize Obama. I'm just trying to de-mystify the guy.
By declaring that Obama's actions as president will run somewhere between NAMBLA and Hamas?
Well, I'm all for that, but then I'm only registered as a Democrat so I can vote in primaries. So don't use me as a data point.
(What are you probing exactly, anyway, other than your own a$$?)