Letters to the Editor
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why not indeed?
God, the speech was so rich, so complex, so full of things to talk about...Why didn't Salon spend more time actually discussing the content of what he said?A golden opportunity, wasted.-- weeping for brunnhilde
Maybe they're just slow on the uptake.
Cable news has been of course slow, too, but I see more signs of intelligent life peeking out occasionally. Maybe everyone needs more time to assimilate then they can begin to accomodate new ideas.
Maybe we can hope for the future.
"I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic." Studs Terkel