Two great LTTE in my local paper . . .

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the Boulder Camera -- today's paper. The first one is especially good!

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Red for Republican: all too appropriate

What a fortunate assignment that Republicans were given the color red to indicate their conquests on the election maps. After all, they are bleeding every one of us economically (the deficit & tax cuts for the wealthy), morally (the lies about WMD and going to war in the wrong country), bodily (soldiers & civilians in Afganistan and Iraq), intellectually (oh, where to start with examples?) and any other way you can think of. The creeping stain of red across the country ... very symbolic.

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The illogical is all around us

Here's a short list of baffling and/or possibly disturbing illogicalities in today's world, some obviously more important that others:

1. The Bush regime is adamantly opposed to a fundamentalist religious state in Iraq, but it is doing all it can to install one in this country.

2. Those who purport to be "pro-life" campaign tirelessly against abortion, but they seem quite comfortable with war, capital punishment, environmental destruction and, in some cases, murder.

3. The most aggressive anti-abortionists tend to be of the male persuasion, which leads one to wonder whether their true motivation is the good of others, or the desire to control others' lives. I wonder how many of them would use a reliable male contraceptive, were one to be developed.

4. The annual compensation of the University of Colorado football coach is significantly larger than that of a Nobel-winning physics professor, the president of the university, or the president of the United States. But it is significantly smaller than the average salary in the professional sports leagues or what a star actor takes home for a single film.

5. The producers of symphony concerts and church services seem to think they can attract new audiences by "dumbing down" words and music to the level of everyday experience, abandoning the time-honored principle of offering something superior and uplifting. Why would anyone go to the trouble of leaving home to experience something entirely ordinary?

6. A movie preview today no longer gives us a tantalizing glimpse of an upcoming film, but instead shows us virtually everything that happens in the film. True, this makes it easier to avoid a bad film, but do people no longer enjoy the pleasure of being surprised?