Letters to the Editor
brightstar65
Published Letters: 3526 Editor's Choice: 16
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Call Me 'Twitchy'
[Read the article: Pedophile blogger unfairly targeted?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I didn't name you as one of the woman-haters, yet you assumed I was referring to you. Hmmm.
Sorry, I get jittery around here, all the ad hominem attacks, you know...
He always assumes this. For brightstar it is always all about him. Witness that he even hijacked this thread about this important issue to acquire his own therapy session and to defend pedophiles.
We try to be nice to him because we feel sorry for him, but it is hopeless. Instead of having compassion for molested children, he has compassion for pedophiles. He becomes stranger and stranger.
Yikes, Defend pedohpiles??? You are sick and completely mischaracterizing everything I said. Prove your point using my words or take it back.
I was sickened to my stomach today hearing on the radio about some sick guy who raped and buried a nine year old girl with the teddy bear she just got from her daddy. UGH! I can't even write about it, it sickens me so much that such vermin exist. They have mothers too, but what created such beasts?
Anyway, I do not have to defend myself, I made my point, and I was quite clear in my contentions. go reread them.
I do not have compassion for pedophiles, but for all men and women, adult and child, who are weak and vulnerable. Sorry if I have a heart. Maybe that is my point, there are several sides to the sadness that is this disease.
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Most science is full of prejudice
[Read the article: It all goes back to trail mix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Scientists thought it was silly when anecdotal reports came in that rocks were falling out of the sky. They thought people were insane who proposed that the continents were once united and drifted apart over eons. Today, science thinks people are insane who think the Earth's tilt shifts periodically, releasing sloshing oceans and shifting polar caps (they will be proven right too).
Scientists often lean left politically, let's not even get into those problems.
Prevailing theories have a way of pushing alternate but potentially more corrent theories out.
Some sciences that seem based in fact are skimming on speculation that threatens to undermine the very core of those sciences.
Some pseudo sciences pretend they are sciences-- like feminist hyper-flying-sky-demon-patriarchy theory.
Other sciences are probably dead wrong and based in nothing more than theorizing-- like string theory
Other sciences refuse to believe in anything that the scientists' limited minds call improbable-- like existence of intelligent alien species.
Other sciences are pilfered, paid to come to certain conclusions by government and companies.
We are limited in what we can know by distance, time, locality, limits on our perception, limits on our imagination, our minds, our spirits.
We are limited by a lack of desire or ability to face the tough questions, the scary questions, those questions that make us question our very existence.
Good science starts with a theory, it moves on to provable tests. Buit just because something is not easily testable does not make it untrue or improbable.
Evo Psych is not without provability. One can analyze patterns of DNA evolution and how they affect current species behavior and characteristics. Archaeology can bring lots of light to how and what people did in the past. There are trends and tendencies based on past climate or geologic change. Animals offer different models of how species and genders interact.
Sure there is interpretation involved, as there is in most science, but many of the other sciences we take as hard truths are also prejudiced greatly and will eventually be shoved aside for more accurate models.
One thing I DO know, most of feminism is based in pure man hatred and coming to comclusions based on politics.
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To be fair,
[Read the article: Wango Tango]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nugent only tells Obama to do something to himself, but he does not urge others to believe it is in their rights to take out the other side of their own volition, as the lefties do when they suggest it will be time to take out the right one day.
I'm no fan of Nugent or his ilk, I believe in his views on libertarianism and self sufficiency, but the agreement stops there. He just seems like a true believer rabble rouser.
I'm also not a fan of the left, with their equally fascistic leanings.
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Feminists will continue to be more and more marginalized
[Read the article: Gonzales' anti-choice legacy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]until they concede that the fetus also has rights. I am not one of those who thinks all abortion is wrong.
But if a woman cannot decide after 3-4 months that she still does or does not want the child, I am sorry, I and most Americans have to give up on the whole idea of abortion.
Again, get with the program or continue to marginalize yourselves.
Nobody wants full fledged babies pulled out and pulled apart as some sort of holiday treat. It is cruel and evil and makes women into monsters-- even only 1 accepted case does it.
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The guy is an idiot
[Read the article: Dentists and laundry and air-conditioning repairmen, oh my!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]as is every woman that considers the unmatched pleasure of watching and contributing to the growth of your own flesh and blood as "all this crap".
My brother is thrilled and thankful every day that he gets to raise his twins while the wife slaves away for some boss.
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Fortunately Salon seems to be wiser than you give them credit for
[Read the article: Dentists and laundry and air-conditioning repairmen, oh my!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Get over your dehumanizing, delegitimising labeling.
That's how you get echo chambers. Is that what Broadsheet strives to be?
It is precisely these 'echo chamber' losers that Salon editors are striving to ignore. Joan Walsh has been quite clear, fortunately, that she wants open forums where people discuss issues honestly.
I am betting she and the wise editors at Salon wish those who want Salon letters to be sycophantic agree fests would just go away instead of constantly tryingg to intimidate and isolate those who want to engage in lively and open discussion.
I would think any writer worth their salt would be thrilled to inspire exciting heated arguments over their writings.
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Can we retire
[Read the article: Dentists and laundry and air-conditioning repairmen, oh my!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the overused title crutch "...oh my"?
C'mon writers, you get PAID for your creativity!