You nailed the desert party
Dear Julie Seabaugh,
I believe I spoke with you and Norm Wilkerson in the desert a couple of weeks ago. Just read the article [“Fear and loathing off the campaign trail,” May 31]. Nicely done—you really captured it. “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” (With apologies to Hunter S. Thompson.)
–J. Kirschner
Florida
Seriously, you really nailed the desert party
Dear Julie Seabaugh,
Great work on the desert party [“Fear and loathing off the campaign trail” May 31], and that comes from a 31-year veteran of the newspaper business.
–Art Kabelowsky
Missouri
In addition to reading Julie Seabaugh in the Weekly, I’m running for office and have something to say about the economy.
Dear Editor,
I thoroughly enjoyed Julie Seabaugh’s article on Doug Stanhope and his bid for the Libertarian Party’s Candidate for U.S. President [“Fear and loathing off the campaign trail,” May 31]. Like Mr. Stanhope I have had a few T-shirts made for my own candidacy, and I am a little weak on paperwork. Fortunately the President is not required to sign a bill Congress passes for it to become law, but only to veto a bill and return it to Congress for reconsideration.
Unlike Mr. Stanhope this is my fourth bid as an independent candidate. I decided early on to vote for third party candidates because our government is not nearly as democratic/republican as it could be. I believe that more people should be as involved as we possibly can be in the process.
Most Politicians will not say how badly the economy is performing, but we can’t solve a problem we’re not willing to fully address:
As long as even one person owns less than one acre of land the economy gets a zero. Even then as long as even one person does not own their own home on that acre the economy gets an F-. As long as even one person is denied health insurance the economy still gets an F.
I am disillusioned with the Republican party because not even President Bush will say how low taxes should be. The part almost all politicians leave out is that the more people paying any tax the lower all taxes must be. The only reason to pay a federal income tax is to make other taxes lower.
Thank you,
–John D’Aura
In addition to reading the Weekly and running for office and saying something about the economy, I contemplate baseball and the arts district, and I may have too much time on my hands.
Dear Editor,
I find it so distressing that the people of the arts are bothered by the possibility of a downtown stadium [“There’s a stadium in my arts district!,” May 24]. I have never seen a conflict between the arts. For some time I have noticed each 51s (formerly Stars) batter seems to have a theme song, played every time he begins his plate appearance. The baseball game is my favorite form of art, but it is by no means my only interest in the arts.
What bothers me most about baseball is the way it is arbitrarily divided into the Major and Minor Leagues. Some form of this capricious distinction seems to run through just about all human activities. I would love to be able to see the 51s play any of the MLB teams.
I would be interested in finding out how any other sport relates to the other arts.
Thank you,
–John D’Aura
The lasting power of movie critics
Thank you, Mr. Josh Bell.
Regarding your 2003 review of Adaptation. You said:
“It may be dressed up with some clever language and A-list actors, but it’s still the equivalent of the smart kid in class who ignored the assignment.”
That helped me to complete my homework. Glad you went against the grain on this one.
–Siti Hajar
I support automatic weapons, so I’m calling out the Weekly’s Ohio letter writer who doesn’t.
You know, Ohio readers stink. To Joe Bialek, who wrote the letter under “Shooting people sucks” in the Weekly, May 17, 2007:
The facts of the matter are that assault rifles had no part in the Virginia Tech massacre by Seung-Hui Cho.
As evidenced by the photo sent to the media, Cho used two handguns, a Walther P-22 and a Glock 19. So prohibiting assault rifles would not have in the last had any effect in this matter.
Maybe, if in his case, a non-U.S. citizen had not been allowed to purchase these weapons ...
Bialek is also wrong in that it is in no way obvious that the need for a state militia has been replaced by the Coast Guard.
–Stan Vaughan
“Nevada’s lone intellectual since the death of Hal Rothman”