Letters to the Editor
Baldie McEagle
Published Letters: 1075 Editor's Choice: 3
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Imagine a republic
[Read the article: The California marriage decision and basic civics]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]in which there is no general right to sue, no access to civil courts, no civil courts above small claims. Only the executive and legislative branches and the criminal courts.
(Congratulations! You're now employable by the Brookings Institute.)
In such a republic, John Edwards would not be criticized for his expensive and faggy haircut---he would be hanged for his expensive and faggy haircut. Because in such a republic, the right wing could concentrate all their rhetoric on wedge issues. The majority would rule, except when it came to the distribution of wealth and, by extension, power, because the majority would be under close political control. Government could be carried out by referendum.
Do Witte and his fellow "scholars" think this republic already exists?
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And, well, Portia de Rossi
[Read the article: Ellen to McCain: Walk me down the aisle?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]mrrOW!
I can't wait for the celebrity blitz when they do this.
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keep hitting that bottle, GT
[Read the article: The California marriage decision and basic civics]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sure you'll start making sense eventually!
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Heh heh heh
[Read the article: The Politico's John Harris admits now what he denied last year]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Everyone in the Democratic party to the right of Marx"
That classification is hilarious. Electra, do you really think Marx would be a Democrat if he were in politics in the US today? It is to laugh.
Actually it's a compliment, this supposed insult of yours. You don't even realize that the people who set up the gulags were Leninists and Stalinists, and those people were well to the right of Marx. It's as though you learned your political history from a picture book. It would be funny if it weren't so sad that you're merely another fawning puppy in the authoritarian lap, and you don't even know you've been neutered and trained to bark and yip when you are confronted with reason and common sense.
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Also funny
[Read the article: The Politico's John Harris admits now what he denied last year]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not a single person has demanded his resignation.
Resignation from what? Does Glenn work for the Justice Department? I must have missed that hiring.
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And then there's Jameka
[Read the article: The Politico's John Harris admits now what he denied last year]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm still angry because I didn't get that pony for Xmas so many years ago. Yeah, I'm bitter. So bitter, I'm a gonna hide in this-a here shack for the rest of my miserable life, only venturing out to piss on other peoples' lives. If you see a large poo on your lawn---bigger than a dog could produce---then that's me, I did it.
Did I say I was bitter?
Note to the barely literate---Not only do people not necessarily want what they need (a formulation that hints of imposition of some political economy from above), but they don't even always want what they want. How is this possible? Oh, the conundrum!
NOT. People can be distracted, that's all. if I log onto WaPo and don't see an article analyzing American imperial strategies in Africa or Central Asia, I'm damn well going to read about a serial child killer or how dogs give you cancer or how the man with the funny hat is saying funny words. I also have to restrain myself when I go to the local supermarket and pass through the bakery section. Why? Because some foods are tastier than others. And some things on the ground are shinier than others.
From this we can deduce no grand principle justifying the lazy and unprofessional behavior of journalists. We can only explain it. And if all you can do about this situation is piss and moan and shit all over people's yards, then you should probably just kill yourself now and spare some homicidal crowd the trouble, because you're not worth the air you breathe.
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Aha
[Read the article: The Politico's John Harris admits now what he denied last year]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Didn't you know? Glenn heads up the DOJ's high-profile Office for Gay Activism.
Well, that explains it. He must have his hands full, being also the Minister of Anti-Semitism.
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@GThrasher
[Read the article: Israel imposes a 10-year ban on American critic of Israeli policies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So Glenn's obession with this non-topic is becuase of the billions of dollars we give to Israel..
money again rules... no shit.... I guess is what motivated Glenn to post this low level color orange on the homeland security grid of a story
since whena re biliobns of dollars spent in an election year a nontopic ru stoopet
whey did you pick 1 of Glenn's mnay reasons for your ditribe bout monee
did u read the others did u miss themn
he alos spoke of non-money relate matetrs
what is ur motivatrion for posting heer? to shit wherever u can?
u must be a greeat person 2 kno
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No tenure for you!
[Read the article: Israel imposes a 10-year ban on American critic of Israeli policies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]However, I do believe that it's legitimate to pursue the question of whether, and to what extent, the political and religious leaders who founded and rule the State of Israel became what they beheld.
Little Brother, you'll never get tenure with THAT kind of reasonableness!
Not in the US, anyway ...
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The Hopping Purple Bunny Channel
[Read the article: Network news anchors praise the job they did in the run-up to the war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have conducted a media quality survey---an imaginary one, I grant you, but I believe its results to be perfectly valid nevertheless, because they feel right---among American citizens aged 2 through 5 years of age.
My conclusions are nothing short of stunning: Despite the media's best efforts at bringing intelligent, rich dramatic material to the 42-inch screen, these folks would rather watch hopping purple bunnies than The History Channel at a ratio of more than 10 to 1.
And so, viewers, I introduce to you ...
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@joshzzz
[Read the article: CNN/MSNBC reporter: Corporate executives forced pro-Bush, pro-war narrative]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You fail to mention the fact that a huge majority of the American people either ignored any dissenting opinion of going to war with Iraq, or the fact that nearly everyone who did speak out against the war was called and considered unpatriotic, and in some cases traitors, by the public in general. You mention the 100,000's of protestors in this country, in a population of 100,000,000's. The disenters were hardly the majority.
Do you have any basis, any basis at all, for these remarks?
Can you give a single instance of "the public in general" calling dissenters unpatriotic? (if that's even possible!)
Can you explain the relevance of the number of protesters to your argument? Do you think that dissent = street protest, so that the number of protesters is actually equal to the number of people who hold an opinion?