Letters to the Editor
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The Khmer Rouge Slaughter Occurred Before the Reagan Administration Took Office
Paglia was correct. Pol Pot's regime killed most of its Cambodian victims before the Vietnamese invasion, which occurred in 1979. This was before Reagan's election.
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Oh, please ... correct this ... misprint. Right? It's a misprint?
Feinstein is a what? I'm pretty sure you said a faux-Democrat war-monger whose husband is making bank on this admin's hawkish policies.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/22/MN310531.DTL
http://www.metroactive.com/feinstein/
Oh, good. I wouldn't want to think that glimpses of opinion blog brilliance could be tainted by ... well ... stupidity. But, maybe you're pals with Dianne. If so, please ask her to not vote to give amnesty to Bush's illegal spying operations ... like SHE ALREADY DID.
:)
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I'm not reading this piece...
I'm just registering my opposition to Camille Paglia's inclusion on this site, which lowers the standard of Salon as a whole. Most of Salon's writers are thoughtful, intelligent, competent writers and commentators.
Camille Paglia is a hack who just LOVES the sound of her own voice, whether she makes any sense or not...
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Alex Jones
is the LAST REAL MAN in this doomed nation of ours.
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More blaphemy (again)
Regarding Camille's heretical skepticism about global warming. At the senate hearing on the U.N. report on global warming a Rep. senator had the temerity to ask the panel of climate scientist what roughly was man's contribution to the amount of co2 in the atmosphere and what was by natural sources. (He didn't ask what percent co2 contributed to global warming. The prior writer was correct. Co2 contributes less than 3% to global warming.) The head of the scientific panel repeatedly evaded the question with rates of change comments which did not even come close to an answer. After three times the senator tried to get an answer out of the head scientist he directed his question to the whole panel. Not one offered an answer to his question. The senator who asked the question stated that the references he had checked state the amount of co2 contributed by human activity to the atmosphere is about at most 10%. Not one of the scientists breathed a word at this point. The senator’s time ran out and the Democrat who was running the panel moved it on to another subject. That was the most outrageous thing I have ever seen. Even if humans do contribute a small but still possibly significant amount to global warming may be a fact. That a panel of the world top climate scientist clammed up when asked to expand on this question could make a skeptic out of anyone.
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I Wonder What Became of Women
Camille: I noticed that all the persons whose letters you answer were men. I thought that strange. Do women write to you with questions? I've always enjoyed your writings. I agree with you much of the time but I am amazed at your ability to discuss movies since I have the inability to remember who is who an hour after I watch one. I thought it interesting that you mentioned Madonna was an Italian American. I did not know that. If I had a choice to be among any women, it would be Italian women, even Italian American women, no less. It is the combination of the Catholic background mixed with the innate irreverence and the 'whatever happens happens' attitude and their ability to have survived and prospered all these years in spite of having to deal with Italian men that makes them wonderful. Just a few thoughts/
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engage mind before setting mouth (mouse) in motion
I always love when laypeople come along and take climate scientists to task for having "missed something obvious" like changes in solar irradiation, the Younger Dryas, cattle farts, what have you... all without taking one look at the published studies.
The inability to distinguish between consensus scientific understanding and the rantings of this one guy in Birkenstocks and a faded tie-dye is not Science's problem.
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Camille confused?
Is Camille consfused. We pulled dout of Vietnam, as Ho Che Men and his troops marched into Saigon. had we not wite duntil it was too late, we sould haveleft so many peopel behind on the U.S embassey roof in Vietnam. Pol Pot was in in Cambodia had nothig to do with Veitnam. As you remember the leasdership and CIA even denied being in Cambodia & Laos.
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@Altaira99
How much? I gallon of gasoline releases about 20 pounds of atmospheric carbon. (How many gallons of gasoline are burned in a day? Besides coal-fired power plants, etc.)
Wow, that's a nifty trick, if it's true! Considering that a US gallon weighs approximately 8.33 pounds, and an Imperial gallon weighs approximately 10 pounds, it would appear to be rather impossible for one gallon of gasoline to release two times its own weight or more in atmospheric carbon to contribute to global warming! I suspect there might be some hocus pocus involved--or the hand of God, as such a thing would clearly be a miracle, being in contravention of all known natural laws and such.
Hyperbole does no favors for anyone. There is enough hard science to back up global warming theories without having to fabricate bogus and preposterous "facts" to support them.
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Apologies to @Altaira99
@Altaira99 sez: ... One gallon of gasoline releases about 20 pounds of atmospheric carbon. ...
Twenty pounds of carbon dioxide, that is. We mustn't forget the "O2" in "CO2".
LeftyChris, IMHO you owe @Altaira99 an apology! `Cuz she was basically right, and you were basically wrong. Also, she was polite and respectful, and you were needlessly sarcastic. Message received?
And remember, LeftyChris, the most gracious apologies, are those that are made without reserve.
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Re Cambodia
Dear C,
You're right about the French, the last really smart Frenchman was Louis XVI, when he separated the American colonies from England. Mistakes are made in every war and this one is no different. Roosevelt campaigned on keeping the US out of WWII and then rethunk it. Truman gave us the Korean War when his secretary of State Simpleton or who ever said that Korea was outside the sphere of US concern. Ike put a toe in Vietnam and JFK/Johnson jumped in. Ironically Nixon did more to get us out than either of his two predecessors while initiating normalization of relations with China. During the post Desert storm penalty box imposed on Iraq, the "aging Saddam" was certainly aware of Iran's nuclear ambitions, as I'm sure the US was aware of as well. I suppose the Bush administration's calculus was that a nuke armed Iraq and Iran wasn't in the best interest of global warming, if ya know what I mean, which is what we would probably have had if the French had had their way. Yes we invaded a sovereign dictatorship, tsk tsk. By the by Iraq and Iran aren't exactly in the same league as India and Pakistan who mostly hate each other. Throw Israel into the mix and dealing with Iran's nuke program singly is potentially more solve-able. Or maybe you believe that everyone should have their own nuke. Carl Sagan's opinion was that there is no one out there in the universe because civilizations annihilate themselves after they invent the "Bomb" to end all bombs, sooner or later. I prefer later, what say you?