Archive for the 'letters' Category
An Open Letter to Michael Gerson, Child-Killer
Dear Mr. Gerson:
I initally sent this letter to the address you make available at the Washington Post, michaelgerson@cfr.org, but since your secretary answered in your stead, I felt it would better to publish it openly. However, I do understand your reluctance to reply: I wouldn’t want to respond to anything that accurately pointed out [...]
LTE: Bill Kristol is a Hypocrite
Nepotism hire William Kristol takes Barack Obama to task for not exhorting college graduates to serve in the military (What Obama Left Out, NYT 6/2/08).
It is understandable that Mr. Kristol is looking for more cannon fodder to serve in the wars he so gleefully looks forward to starting. After all, thanks to Iraq, a war [...]
I Write Letters…
…and sometimes they get published. Last week, in the Philadelphia Daily News, Gar Joseph wrote some really stupid crap:
Clout: Obama mania: Is this 2008 … or 1984?
By Gar Joseph
Philadelphia Daily News
Daily News Clout Columnist
U.S. SEN. Barack Obama’s critics have called his presidential campaign a cult of personality.
His glassy-eyed supporters are enraptured. The media are [...]
A Letter to Steven Landsburg (Expanded)
All economists know that when American jobs are outsourced, Americans as a group are net winners. What we lose through lower wages is more than offset by what we gain through lower prices. In other words, the winners can more than afford to compensate the losers.
This article by Steven Landsburg is, to put it bluntly, [...]
LTE: Philadelphia Patronage Authority
LIKE MANY Philadelphians, I’m outraged and dismayed by the Patronage . . . I mean the Parking Authority’s decision to stiff our city’s schoolchildren out of the funding promised in return for the Republican takeover a few years back. It’s clear to me from John Perzel’s recent statements that this was a promise that was [...]
Read More..>>Open Letter to Tom Batiuk
Dear Tom:
As readers of your long-running strip, Funky Winkerbean, we’ve grown used to your bleak take on life and your menagerie of characters damaged by amputation, disease, divorce, and mental illness, from Funky’s divorce and subsequent battle with the bottle, to that girl who lost her arm when her boyfriend was driving drunk, to the [...]
One Wrong Word
There is one wrong word in this letter to the New York Times. See if you can figure it out:
To the Editor:
How can this be America? How can we fail to give good care to those who served America?
My heart goes out to every soldier who is living with a brain injury caused by [...]
Open Letter to Eric T. Fair
A man with no face stares at me from the corner of a room. He pleads for help, but I’m afraid to move. He begins to cry. It is a pitiful sound, and it sickens me. He screams, but as I awaken, I realize the screams are mine.
That dream, along with a host of other [...]
People Write to Me
Dear Brendan,
Thanks for your phone call and email. I’ve been swamped at work and this is my first chance to respond.
I realize that most people don’t listen to all of our shows but we have had a number of the liberal guests you suggested and many others on the show.
In the nearly 20 years that [...]
I Write Letters
Because no one has bothered to respond to phone calls or letters about Peter Beinart, pseudo-liberal and BS artist I am publishing the following letter to Radio Times
Dear Ms. Moss Coane and the rest of the staff at Radio Times:
I’m a big fan of the show and try to listen in whenever possible. I’ve called [...]
