Writing the good read
I’m depressed today. Nothing like giving away something to make me feel better, right? So I’m going to post links to three stories, all recent. Succinctly tell me why I’m so upset (beyond the obvious). The closest answer gets a hard copy of the book California on publication, July 8. 1. The obvious: Oregon school…
I read with interest your plans to publish a sanitized version of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. I know that removing the “N” word is controversial, but you really just want to protect sensibilities of those who are offended by the word. I get it. So here are some other books I think you should consider…
You might think that your words and actions — talking of putting people in the “cross-hairs” and putting gun-sites on various districts — don’t matter. But they do. Didn’t you teach your children to think before they speak? Did you tell them that what they say and the words they choose matter? Maybe not, given…
A few questions and comments: First, if this was a church or synagogue, would you still be opposed to this? Think hard before you answer. Be truthful. If so, you’re being hypocritical. Are you one of those people saying, “Anywhere but there”? Do you say you have nothing against mosques in general? You aren’t alone…
I suppose this is the first time in a long time you have been disappointed in your son, Colton Harris-Moore. His capture in the Bahamas went directly against what you had told him to do: evade authorities and find a place that had no extradition treaty with the United States. Maybe he didn’t know the…
So you don’t think Roman Polanski can be punished? How ’bout you deliver up one of your young daughters to him when she turns 13 in a couple years. If he drugs her and has sex with her, then tell me if you still think that he’s suffered enough. Lisa
Don’t watch porn at work on work computers, and don’t store said porn in your desk drawer. Someone always finds out. And if you work for the public, it makes you look like an ass. Lisa * Actually, anyone who has a paying job, since there’s millions of other people who don’t and would love…
Perhaps if you want to make a point that you aren’t the evil weenies of healthcare and aren’t gouging your customers — especially the individual policy holders — then maybe you should think of somewhere to have your industry meeting other than the Ritz Carlton. Might I suggest a Holiday Inn near an airport? Just…
My questions are multitude and I don’t know where to begin. 1. If you can use a laptop safely in a cockpit to surf the web — and I’m assuming if they were checking their schedules, they were online — then why can’t we use our cell phones? 2. Why isn’t there a method for…
How come I haven’t heard a single one of you get up on your feet and say that all those right-wing pundits suggesting that healthcare reform will lead to old people being put out on ice floes or encouraged to commit suicide are outright liars. They know that’s not in the provisions, but say it…