Letters to the Editor
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thing to do
remove abortion from the federal governement and let each individual state dial with it same with gay rights.then we can concentrate on the other major issue that we face
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What to do?
Bill Moyers last night interviewed a Sandy Levinson who has some revealing thoughts about our undemocratic constitution. Here’s the link to his blog and to Moyer’s latest great interview.
http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/slevinson/undemocratic/blog/
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/12212007/profile.html
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Aux barricades!
In reading this today, I thought to myself that it read a lot like IOZ without all the five-dollar words. And looky here, Monsieur himself gives props:
http://whoisioz.blogspot.com/2007/12/mea-kinda-culpa.html
I read Glenn and IOZ every day: Glenn for facts and outrage, and IOZ for ironic detachment and Big Lebowski references. IOZ is pretty much Glenn, like, if Glenn smoked a lot of weed.
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@ Jason G.
Maybe you, too, are a right-wing extremist, as many have speculated. Maybe you sympathize with Ron Paul because you sympathize with all of his positions, not just the war.
If I had to guess, Glenn was/is a conservative with conscience, like John Dean. I really don't care who he voted for in previous elections. Glenn has done as much in a short time to force the Democratic party to behave like a legitimate opposition party responsive to their true constituency, the American people, as any blogger out here.
The fact that Paul gets a single issue right does not justify the praise you've heaped on him. You know who else is opposed to the war? David Duke! And I'm sure Charles Lindbergh would have opposed it to! Hell, President Ahmadinejad is opposed to American imperialism as well - when do we get to read your praise of him?
This is complicated. Glenn and I can agree to disagree about the motivation and implications of Ron Paul's foreign policy but even I agree that any Republican questioning America's desire for empire is deserving of wider recognition.
Every once in a while, I think about subscribing to Salon. Then I read offensive nonsense like Greenwald's post, and I think better of it.
-- Jason G
Just read for free. The economy isn't Glenn's beat but we will all be pinching pennies soon.
We are all glad Glenn does what he does. Ezra and Glenn will both be the better for this dialogue. Ezra has done what many smart people still do. Misunderstand what Glenn does.
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Oh My Flying Spaghetti Monster
Yeah. I caught Ezra's piece late Friday afternoon. And thought, Well, will Glenn, or won't Glenn ...? Got my answer. I read Ezra's post as Friday-Throwaway. I've tended to cut Young Ezra a little slack since his move to TAP. Without wanting to cloud the issue Glenn raises, I think Ezra's writing, now, is different in some substantial ways from his pre-TAP writing, and I've wondered if he would settle back down in time. Ezra can be quite incisive on an array of issues. Others, not so much. Here, I think, he got complacent and took his eye off the ball. He missed Glenn's point in many of the same ways that Glenn's readers did (me included). Too bad Ezra didn't follow the comments. Acceptance, and fitting in is a powerful motivator (see Maslow). And, it's true; Ezra, like Joan Walsh, is really enamored of his appearances on Hardball.
Jason G, This: First of all, don't take on Ezra Klein. You're not up to the task. is just a really stupid thing to say. Glenn Greenwald isn't Michelle Malkin, fer FSM's sakes. The issues are a good deal deeper and more profound. I'd be surprised if even Ezra doesn't agree with Glenn before all is said and done. Why don't you email Ezra, Jason, and see?
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@RMP
What to do?
Bill Moyers last night interviewed a Sandy Levinson who has some revealing thoughts about our undemocratic constitution. Here’s the link to his blog and to Moyer’s latest great interview.
http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/slevinson/undemocratic/blog/
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/12212007/profile.html
-- Retired Military Patriot
That was great. I caught parts of it. Che will love it because Sandy was basically saying we should get rid of the Senate, too.
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I understand now!
At first I was confused: “Ron Paul is an abhorrent, right-wing extremist”?
But then Jason G. explained it to me: “He is a right-wing extremist. He is a right-wing extremist. He is a right-wing extremist. He is a right-wing extremist. He is a right-wing extremist. He is a right-wing extremist. He is a right-wing extremist.”
Now I get it. Thanks, Jason G., by repeating your unsubstantiated claim over and over, you really helped me get a grasp on the issue. I have to go put a Ron Paul sign up in my yard now.
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Jason G? One and the many: I visited Jason the Mennonite today. I'll try to speak 'ingles' in the rural Wat.
How about what Blue Meme said? The Chou dynasty disintegrated and fell to dust. Thoughts continued. Philosophy was always transformed...Change. People change.
Joseph Needham wrote about civilizations (1956) in a monumental book, 'Science and Civilization' and makes clear a thinker must have "refused to separate Man from Nature, or individual man from social man..." He stresses: That every various school of thought, however difficult its conclusions might be from anther's, presupposed a "Great Harmony" in the universe of which man was inseparably part...He wants thinkers to grasp that as a Given essential...As it was in sustained past societies. Clear?
I'll have to feel awkward if not...okay.
It's a 'conviction' that more than one thought can/must be entertained. If people are to keep proceeding onward toward an evolution's completion/end..."get it!"
Recorded: "My mouth fell open and I could not close it; my tongue flew up and I couldn't even stammer."
Yet with perseverance, the pupil finally grasps that s/he must "take my own place as a man/women among the processes of change." --- "Good Ch'iu --- now you've got it!"
Lao Tzu exclaims -- and even retires, like a Taoist hermit, "to the great swamp, wearing furs and coarse cloth and living on acorns, chestnuts, greens, etc.,...
...the whole point was that there are contradictions. Paragon. Listen not with mind but with the spirit..."spirit is empty and waits on all things." The Way. on and on...Yippee.
There were magic forces at play in rural legends. The harmonious balance of nature, which alone, alone, alone, alone made possible humans life upon the earth. Balance. Are you destructive or tending to care and maintain the environmental natural laws?
Its a seasonal celebration day. Past agrarians respected ancestral (necromancy) disembodied spirit dimensions. Is that dictionary word 'Weird' old fashion, and not in vogue, and darn ignorant, Oh, ah, just old-fashion obsolete? The ancestral connection (and the war dead of released souls) shared in the daily contemporary responsibility for 'real' prosperity within...and oiko-economics was considered the real sustainable labor to be valued. A close bond with Nature was essential. This belief is carried on in every age. It's Not off-topic in a global crisis.
I confess words fall short. Communication is important. In seeking the Middle Way when Tao (Truth was revered as honest, and thanks for other comment inspirations) was prudential...How to conduct our Life ...?... on the Earth the "true gentleman and lady" prevailed over the bland scholarly ornamentation (merry hearts) of less rustic workers bonded to a honest-day in the field.
"The wise person delights in water, the Good person delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stays still. The wise are happy; and the Good are secure." This is Taoist. Good (Goodness) [jen] has been substituted for 'Tao'...the dictum easily passes into the vocabulary of full-blown, systematic quietism. Elsewhere "jen" is mystic and not mere analogous...but in certain practical Ways is saying SOMETHING not easy to comprehend for some people...I don't comprehend some people and they say I'm incomprehensible too goofy?
My three and one-half year old granddaughter seems to understand where I'm, proverbially, coming from and trying to say...In fact she is making me Laugh and wants to know why I'm laughing at. She saw saw a picture of a cat peeing on a potty! She said, "Dogs and cats don't poop on the potty." huh.
It's a little "beer" or sip of a intoxicating thought that is contrasted to book 'knowledge'... I don't even know where a coma goes or how to spell como this Way or if some [s[thinkers
are in a comma?
We are learning?
One more wish. Be Happy!