Letters to the Editor
thatbob
Published Letters: 11 Editor's Choice: 1
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Punk'd
[Read the article: Sonic Youth, meet Starbucks]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]By a punk.
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War Crimes?
[Read the article: Imperial presidency declared null and void]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I accept that Bush & Co. will not face impeachment (or any other criminal proceedings) for any of their illegal actions against Americans. Until they're caught, I don't know, molesting a child or something, there simply isn't the political will.
However, is it too much to hope that, shortly after leaving the presidency, they might have to face the music in an international tribunal for their international crimes? What a bold move that would be for our foreign policy! To actually hand over an ex-president to the world and show them no American is above international law! And how better to restore the balances to our own liberties, than to show all of our future presidents what could happen if you claim powers beyond those granted to you by the Constitution and international treaty?
I would NOT like to see this brought up in the presidential or primary debates - surely the candidate who openly supports my fantasy would crash and burn in the polls. And yet I find myself evaluating the candidates based almost entirely on my own fantasy of whom among them could possibly have the will or the gumption to go for it. McCain? Clinton? Obama? Edwards?
Oh dear. I've just confessed to basing my voting preferences on fantasy. I am a bad American.
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@groenhagen
[Read the article: Jenna Bush is just not the Winnebago-driving type]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Chelsea Clinton didn't write a book, then court the press to promote it, as Jenna Bush is in the midst of doing. This "liberal MSM double-standard against conservatives" is worn out. Please try a different tack.
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The World's Greatest Photo Illustration
[Read the article: What you missed while watching "Chad Vader"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The news photo used at the top of this story (photo credit AP/Chris O'Meara) looks almost exactly like a classic Jack Kirby drawing of "Mr. Fantastic" Reed Richards doing battle with the "The Puppet Master" Phillip Masters. Uncanny!
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Pete Rose axed himself
[Read the article: Throw the bums out of baseball's Hall of Fame]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Remember folks, Pete Rose isn't kept out of the HOF because he gambled, he is kept out of the HOF because he agreed to a deal that would keep him out in exchange for MLB ending their inquiry into his gambling. Only after the investigation was dropped did he begin his whiner's campaign for inclusion, his "Prison without Bars," so to speak.
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Bring it On
[Read the article: Holy Constitution!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You wouldn't expect this openly atheist, bisexual, libertarian-liberal to be a fan of The Huck, who would seem to be my polar opposite, but I actually am. He puts his real views out in the open. When he says a fetus' right to life and a heterosexual definition of marriage ought to be constitutional propositions, I say Right On. Take these culture-war battles out of the legislature and put our congreesspeople back to work on the practical business of running the country. Relegate these lunatic Christian fringe issues to Constitutional amendments that have no chance of passing in my lifetime, or ever. The man is saying to his base exactly what I would like to say: Put Up or Shut Up. And 25 years from now, when the old people are all dead and the amendments have either been tabled or repealed, we can have a little laugh about it. I agree that the "God [biblical scripture]-centered" and "people-centered" worldviews are irreconcilable, and I have no doubt which Americans will choose if forced to by honest politicians who discuss these things openly. Way to go Huck!
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Purest Conjecture
[Read the article: How looks can kill]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Pointing out the study's inability to prove causation (only correlation) was pretty good. Following up this point with complete conjecture about the actual causation was pretty bad, even condescending. Psychiatry: guilty of offering somewhat less insight than advertised - but making progress. Psychology: guilty of wholesale fabrication of dangerous, untestable theories for over a hundred years.
The logical extension of your "looks-based society" theory is that BDD is the fault of bad parents, who, you know, don't do enough to protect their precious dumplings from the dangerous social paradigm (ie. indoctrinating them into the dominant feminist/psychologist victim myth du jour). I look forward to the day when we're allowed to find some men and women more attractive than others, for even the shallowest reasones, without being scolded that we're responsible for the suicidal anorexia & steroid addictions of countless impressionable others.