Letters to the Editor
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Eric
Thank you so much Eric, that does mean alot to me. I had to go back to work, sorry for the delay......
I did enlist for me but I would like to thank you for paying attention to the issue, no matter what side you are on. I would much rather discuss this with you even if we have to disagree than with most I meet who don't vote, don't care and don't know. Those elderly Iraqis who walked 20 miles to vote under threat of death and proudly held up that purple finger, those are the people I care about, AND TO MY MEDIA, THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE STORY.
One time in 1973, an hour before I was in East Berlin before the wall came down, a mother and her son were just killed for trying to leave to join her husband and daughter who had been separated from them by the wall. Of course that government just left them for the others to see as a lesson, we have so much in this nation to be thankful for............
I had no chance of being drafted as a woman, but was raised at WP AFB in Dayton Ohio where I learned about the Vietnam War a little differently than most, (since WP was the B-52 SAC base headquarters for Vietnam) my friends daddies would be at the PTA and mowing their lawns and a week later they would be "missing", that is a HUGE CIVICS LESSON for a 15 year old, WHAT IS "MISSING???".......also I was one hour from Kent State (four dead in Ohio), so I do feel my opinions from the depth of my soul and don't expect everyone to do what I did, but just care about this great nation.
After spending time in communist countries, we don't understand how just posting on this site could get us KILLED IN SO MANY COUNTRIES.
I feel that some of my fellow citizens only see the world from their "fat with their freedom" perspective. Thank you again, your freedom of speech is something that I would fight for again........
catherine
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No Confidence Vote Camille
Please all of you who think this columnist is ridiculous, please write to Salon editors and tell them so. I can't figure out why she is writing for this site...or any other site for that matter.
I vote no confidence.
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Just for the tally
As a paying Salon reader, I feel that Paglia adds nothing of worth to the publication.
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Catherine 100 times wrong
You answered my rant with the facts? No, you answered my facts with a rant. You seem to be barely literate which would explain your fellow feeling for Bush. You don't seem to focus much on Cheney. Even you can't find anything good to say about The Prince of Darkness. The man who sat in the bunker on 9/11 and watched a plane flying towards the Pentagon for FORTY MINUTES and did nothing. Where was your wonderful President while all this was going on? He went off to a 'secret location'. Doesn't any of this seem the slightest bit fishy to you? According to your own constitution Bush should have been in the bunker that day not Cheney. And that was only the start of their lawbreaking and disregard for the truth. Most of what you said about Clinton is Republican propaganda long since discounted by objective observers. The planes full of cash never happened and I saw the man who told that story on TV repenting and saying the Republicans fabricated many such stories -with his help- all in an attempt to destroy Bill Clinton and in particular to prevent him from being re-elected. In spite of that he was re-elected and if he could have run a third time he would have been elected again. The fact is, you represent a minority of Americans who refuse to see Bush and Cheney for what they are and blame Clinton for everything up to and including the San Francisco earthquake. Reagan just about bankrupted America with his mania for cutting taxes for the rich and interfering in other people's wars. Now who does that remind me of?
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Camille...
...hasn't aged well.
Still a good read...but she's starting to lose it. It's all becoming a big muddled muck for her.
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Holy SchMoly
Dunno. Just watched the Beetle-browed Oot-greeter on the Beeb, all a'twitchin' and a'tellin' folks how hard it was, and I had a flashback and seriously wondered just exactly when and where America went off the tracks. Ike saw it coming, folks like Catherine 100 just cement the whole shoddy shitty little thing together. I really do believe it's something to do with the diet. And yet we still haven't figured out why 95% of the planet despise us . . .
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Why Camille Paglia?
She doesn't seem to write very well, her writing has too many factual errors, and I usually find her pieces boring and full of self-promotion. I read bits and pieces of her recent column but had no interest in wading through the whole bloated thing. Why does Salon keep using her when, judging by the letters to the editor, most of their readers would rather she be dropped?
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Innocenzo Iannuzzi is full of B.S.
This sort of simplistic argument for why man-made CO2 isn't important is typical of the "flat-Earth" arguments against global warming. The CO2 trapped in ice-cores being magically and exactly 20% low is also typical B.S.
Camile, this is why you should educate yourself before you speak out on matters you don't understand. When speaking on science, it’s not good enough to just have an opinion based on a gut-level feeling, a long ago notion of maybe majoring in geology, or a childish dislike of someone's mannerisms (Al Gore). This might be good enough in art criticism (or whatever it is you actually do for a living), but it doesn't cut it in science. You just look like a guffawing fool.
It is possible for you to separate your dislike of Al Gore from the facts surrounding global warming? Once again, I challenge you to go to: http://www.ipcc.ch/ and actually learn something about global warming from the thousands of scientists who study it every day (without a political agenda) and have reached the consensus that it is occurring and that it is man made.
Once again, I must say that just being contrary is not the same as being smart, educated, thoughtful, or interesting.