Letters to the Editor
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@kitt
For instance, maybe you have an electric car that runs on batteries. The batteries are recharged by electricity that comes from a power plant. Maybe your power plants run on unicorn piss and the power of positive thinking, but the ones in my area run on coal.
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Here's one
So are you going to try this on wheat, and all of your knowledge about forestry too?
http://tinyurl.com/2vaynr
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SLucid
Whatever on your rap about batteries. You said there is no car you can start that won't cause pollution. I guess bird shit causes pollution, doesn't it. So do you think we should kill all the birds?
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Speaking of deceitful tactics
I stand amused at your denunciation of Brook's rhetorical "tactics" in using terms like "centrist" or "extremist" in his favor, even as you create the term "Beltway Establishment" and define it as those who want to "rule the world by force."
Live in whatever la-la land you wish, but we can laugh at you for pretending you live in the same universe as "the center".
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All I have to say about the New World Odor
is that it stinks.
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Star Chamber
but seriously folks,
Do we need a Star Chamber? Personally, I'm happy with a constitutional republic. The problem with human endeavors, as we see with our own rapidly vanishing const. repub., is that they get corrupted over time. Some humans will always seek power and wealth, some will be corrupt and change things to suit their own selfish ends, others will make adjustments for "good" reasons but the endeavor will be changed for the worse nevertheless. It is the nature of things.
The Framers thought long and hard about how to make a "perfect union", and discussed many of the ideas being batted around here. I think they came up with a pretty good system -- the question is how do we get back to it?
Glenn, both as an attorney and as a blogger, is doing his best to restore the Republic. Some other ideas?
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Swensker @ 3:48
O, some people style their hair in a chicken tail. Who care if some blokes seem so schooled and cool-smart, they just sit under a mulberry bush?
I say: There is dry fish, pumpkins, and tasty field roaming tasty ruff, stringy, o, just chickens. A wild goose flies high above the fray.
I say: No even try to shoot. A moth pest butterfly will spin and dart. O, it is so damn hard to catch a white darling butterfly.
O, pumpkin.
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apologist in chief
Every week they trot Brooks out on News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Brooks finds a way to shrug off even the most blatent offenses by the Republicans. They could find a freezer full of boys scouts in the Vice President's office, and Brooks will invariably shrug, sigh and say that the Democrats are making too much of the whole affair, and that it will come back to haunt them if they aren't careful. His demeanor is one of the "man of reason", but he's just as bad as Limbaugh. Joe Scarborough would at least acknowledge that dead boy scouts would require an explanation.
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saintlucid
Well, yes, bad popular decisions and good unpopular ones are both possibilities. We'd all prefer good decisions however they're arrived at. But we all also know that governments don't make all good or all bad decisions (OK maybe the Bush Admin is an exception), so the process is important. And a process that includes "the people" is better than one that excludes us because we see that we have a stake in what gets done. Regardless of whether the decision is good or bad, we made it, and of course we can unmake it, or make another one. That's a better process than "King George has ruled and we're all stuck with the ruling."
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I meant to say:
It is the Stink Bug season.
O, sell some stink bug odor to me and I'll go out with you?
I'm just teasing, but O, give me two free red-mules, and I'll pretend to marry you? O, husbands and wife know their bodies smell. SO, Look: a wild pig can be precious. No have mean-spirited human fickle minds.
O, a hen can pick open a shelled egg. I heard a female crab will have a friend-female pinch her male-crab, when he's lost his hard shell. I best go watch a sunset and 'pundit' go cut some Z's.
I snore.
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Glenn
I agree. 100%. Brooks is the biggest phony among the punditocracy and deep down I think that he knows it. A hollower and more dishonest man cannot be found within the beltway "elite", and with each new remark or column he proves this further. At least folks like Novak, Buchanan and even Broder occasionally make a valid point. But Brooks simply cannot help making stuff up and completely missing the point. A sign, I hope, of his side's sense of its growing long-term irrelevance as the public rightly sees through its lies and rejects them.
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I bellow/bark, one last oxen thought, for the day.
Before I tried to bolt-to-bed, I had a hekka of a time getting off my on-line NSA service.
I am not paranoid, but I an suspicious.
The old NSA's coots crawl out and snoop.
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@kitt
Whatever on your rap about batteries. You said there is no car you can start that won't cause pollution. I guess bird shit causes pollution, doesn't it. So do you think we should kill all the birds?
Surely you are smart enough to see that cars that run on electricity are, in essence, cars that run on coal? Just because the pollution happens somewhere else doesn't mean that the pollution isn't happening. There is no environmentally neutral automobile.
The point is that we make choices concerning competing goods, in this case the good of ready transportation vs. the good of 100 percent pristine air. Could it be more obvious that EPA regulation is not an especially good way to make that choice? Is anybody happy with how the EPA operates or the political process that creates the statutes the EPA is given to enforce?
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Star Chamber
Do we need a Star Chamber? Personally, I'm happy with a constitutional republic. The problem with human endeavors, as we see with our own rapidly vanishing const. repub.
-- Svensker
If our constitutional republic is rapidly vanishing, or, at least, showing an Achilles heel, then how can we sit pefectly happy with it?
The idea of a star chamber was thrown out there because it seems like if every player in the republic, i.e., the three branches and the press, get interconnected and beholden to a single source (e.g., money), then an outside, impartial entity may be in a position to right the ship of state.
Maybe the system will correct itself in the nick of time? Maybe there are other ideas out there? But, star chamber is one suggestion.