Letters to the Editor
C. Mosby
Published Letters: 304 Editor's Choice: 3
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Memo to Linda M II:
[Read the article: Memo to O.J.: Kill yourself]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your amusement and dismay at the comments of others expressing an opinion about DD’s rant notwithstanding, I see you now have an actual comment of your own on the DD article. Are you no longer comparing this volume of letters to the volume of respondents about what you consider to be matters of more compelling national interest? I doubt that anyone actually thinks DD’s weird harangue is more important than the matters you referenced in your first letter.
It’s nice to see that you have now also offered an opinion on one of the other articles you recommended that Salon readers should weigh in on. I happen to agree with your views about the conscription issue. As a person with a loved one directly involved in this war, I agree that this issue is a conundrum of the first order. I also happen to believe that the issue, as currently configured on the political spectrum, is one that the country is simply not willing to confront. Mr. Rangel is simply reintroducing a measure that he has offered up before (HR 163, almost 4 years ago). It went nowhere then and is just as likely to go nowhere now. I understand, and appreciate, why he’s doing it; but this is old news wearing a new headline. The recently revised political profile of the congress is not likely to alter the hard facts which complicate this question.
People often can find common ground on issues of substance. People also have the right to decide for themselves which matters (substantive or otherwise) they elect to enter a public forum about without others passing judgment on their choices.
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To: I won't hold my breath
[Read the article: Race matters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks!
I’ll start by confessing, up front, that I haven’t read DD’s latest on Salon.
I’m sticking by my rule (sadly, and foolishly, broken for the prior article about her OJ suicide wish, hero-worship of Judith Regan and the unfortunate inheritance of a “remnant” male community as her twilight years approach).
For those who missed my rule (free for all to observe in future), here it is again:
Read something by Debra Dickerson = Waste of remaining inventory of potentially productive time
The essence of the letters herein serves to validate, for me, the efficacy of that rule.
The letter from “I won't hold my breath” seems to sum it up nicely. I doubt that anyone can find something she’s written which did not, at some point, morph into a diatribe about her blackness, being unloved, being unappreciated or, more typically, all three of these burdens she continually reminds us she carries.
So, apparently, now she’s whining (humorously, I guess, from the tone of the letters) about not getting paid for being black, WHILE basically getting paid for being black.
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Answering to a Higher Father
[Read the article: "These people should be court-martialed"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As this country, under this administration, seems to be recklessly heading down a path towards its own version of a theocracy, this issue is clearly worthy of serious investigation and consideration by the American people. No one can earnestly deny the historical influence of theocracies on the tremendous legacy of cruelty, destruction and suffering in the conduct of religious or sectarian warfare. We are witnessing it today in Iraq, while our troops, as an occupation force, are serving as convenient targets attempting to referee sect sponsored violence driven by hundreds of years of theocratic disagreement and failure at reconciliation of their differences.
It should be clear to any reasonable individual that officially sanctioned proselytizing by any religion, especially in the military, is a lit fuse attached to a potential powder keg of balkanization and sectarian unrest in a nation having as diverse a population as the USA. That seems to be the issue Mr. Weinstein has legitimately raised.
It’s not entirely clear what the people responsible for this apparent breach of accepted procedure in the military are trying to accomplish. What is clear is that it’s not a trivial matter unworthy of concern.
Regarding Topaz’s question about General Boykin, that should be an element of concern in any ensuing inquiry on the matter. Any doubters should reference this link:
http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/InfiltratingTheUSMilitaryGenBoykinsWarriors.html
Those having questions about the hidden agenda linking aggressive right wing policies and religious posturing by the politicians pushing them should take a look at this link (find the section on R.J. Rushdoony, the alleged guru of this philosophy):
http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/OutingCreepingDominionism.html
Perhaps Mr. Bush has delayed advancing his own “New Way Forward” on Iraq because he’s been put on hold for the scheduled consultation with his “Higher Father” due to the Christmas holidays.
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Thanks Alex!
[Read the article: I tried to get rich on stock spam]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Good article with interesting approach to, and insight about, a potentially harmful problem in today’s cyber world. Salon needs more of this kind of material that offers something useful and interesting without requiring readers to sift through a minefield of self-absorbed author psychoses. The letters from readers so far have also been thoughtful and informative. It probably won’t generate the volume of “hits” that other fact-challenged drivel recently published generates; but I suspect it’s what most people who read Salon genuinely appreciate.