Just read three editorials in The Week, and had profoundly different visceral reactions about each of them in a very short time span. So I'm venting, because it's cathartic. Don't feel obligated to read.
Here are the basic gists:
"Liberals who once accused Bush of "shredding the Constitution" give Barack Obama far more leeway in fighting the war on terrorism..." - NY Times
Oh, really? There's a small difference between getting your but patted down a bit more at the airport, and monitoring everybody's phone calls while you bomb the everloving shit out of a country based on stuff you make up.
"Couldn't these young men (al Qaida members) use their creative energies to start new businesses and help the Arab world's sagging economies? Why don't they emulate the entrepreneurial Israelis...?" - NY Post
Amen, sister.
"Many young people spend much of their time e-mailing, texting, and tweeting online 'friends' about such effluvium as what they ate for lunch or what movie they saw last night...there's the future for you. One in which words are abundant, but exist mainly to express the trivial and the transitory." - LA Times
Wow. Could you sound any more like an Andy Rooney-esqe old crank? Did it ever occur to you that this technology you detest actually brings people closer together? I'm sure you hated those whole phonograph and telephone revolutions too.
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