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Because I like to give broadcast to completely insane and unsubstantiated rants, here’s a little bit of reader mail Dorrk.com received tonight (4 times, no less) in response (sort of) to my old essay about the comparative moralities of Forrest Gump and Leatherface:

Tom Hanks the fraud and the imposter
I just wanted to let you know [...]

As attractive as it may be for some of my ilk to jump on the chance to blame Clinton for distorting evidence of Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction, the only person really responsible for any subterfuge therein is the spider-holier-than-thou Saddam Hussein himself.
It is indisputable that during periods of the 1990s Hussein had crews of [...]

Eric,
You have some good company in pointing out the inefficacy of Edwards’ nice-guy approach:

Should Edwards take a few swings at John Kerry? Call him an elitist who doesn’t know a textile mill from a pepper mill? If he wants to remain relevant, he has no choice.
“Hey, What About Me?” cried a New York Post headline [...]

Matt gave some serious thought to the U.N. question:

I certainly don’t harbor any thoughts that the U.S. is as morally bad as many of the human rights violating UN members. However, I do think we/the government break certain moral and ethical codes so frequently that we are shouldn’t assume we have moral superiority.

I guess the [...]

the lying Clintons who tell them.
This article, from the very liberal magazine “Mother Jones,” details how the warped intelligence that the Bush administration used to sell the war on Iraq actually became warped during the Clinton administration.
Why does Al Franken still love this guy so much?
Hey, anybody catch the Edwards/Kerry debate last night? It sounds [...]

I have sinned. I have maligned the right by attempting to include a less-funny David Letterman in its ranks. I did so in spite of the fact that I probably haven’t watched four whole hours of Letterman in the last four years. I saw his post-9/11 fervor and noticed his generally more conservative (PC?) demeanor [...]

Ages ago, Greg wrote…If, then, at least half (and certainly 1/4) of the U.N. is most likely a negative moral force, doesn’t the U.S. come out favorably in comparison?
I certainly don’t harbor any thoughts that the U.S. is as morally bad as many of the human rights violating UN members. However, I do think we/the [...]

>It was Eric:
Ah. My bad.
In any event, I’d love to see Leno and Letterman removed from Late Night in Killer-era John Woo fashion. They are so mediocre, and in Leno’s case, hideous and annoying, that it hurts.
Eric had asked before if I had tuned in for Ben Harper, which I had not, though I [...]

It was Eric:

“…Letterman has progressively gotten less funny. He’s also gotten a lot more conservative, politically. Not that I’m saying those two things are related;-)”

Eric, maybe, you’ve just gotten more liberal!

Wasn’t the comment before (from Scott) that Letterman had become more PC, not necessarily more conservative?

An earlier comment was posted about David Letterman becoming more conservative. Well, I just flipped past his interview with Tim Robbins, and Letterman said, without joking, that he likes the idea of Ralph Nader as president (and then joked that he only wishes it hadn’t been Ralph Nader doing the running for president).
If this is [...]

” I’ve heard this in many of the interviews/debates on the topic, and I’ve just never bought the whole fundamentally different angle. Beyond the physical differences, I don’t see men and women as all thatdifferent, and therefore I don’t see why the union of any two people can’t create a combination with unique strengths. [...]

Matt wrote:

Being ignorant as to the current existing legal definitions of marriage (as far as wording goes), I ended up with a redefinition that would include something like “a partnership between two individuals who are not related.” This is of course very naive, I’m sure, but I was basically trying to just fix my own [...]

Thanks for the response, Greg.
While I highly doubt that most gay-marriage proponents are actively aiming to include polygamy and incestuous marriage in their movement, their success will invariably lead to courts breaking down those barriers, as well.
Yeah, I was thinking about this en route to work this morning. Being ignorant as to the current [...]

One more point about Gay Marriage and its inevitable role as a conduit to no marriage standards (polygamy, etc.) whatsoever:
The argument for gay marriage is deceptively promoted as one for “equal protection,” but that’s not really what it is. “Equal protection,” as provided for in the Constitution, means judging all people by one standard. As [...]

No takers on Matt’s challenge?

As one of the apparent minority that thinks this would indeed NOT deal the death blow to marriage, I’d love to hear some real people (non-pundit) opinions or views on why it would, if any of you hold that view.

I can play Devil’s Advocate, then, as I am partly persuaded by [...]

The girlfriend and I both went to see the “Passion” today.
Neither of us are Christians; but we both were moved to tears on several occasions (and for prolonged periods) during the film. It is an excruciating piece of work.
I now have a better idea about how moving and important this will be to our more [...]

Pat has a point about the over-representation of gays in our culture. It’s really been one of the great PR achievements of our times. When the best estimates of gays in the population are about 2.5-3%, you’d never know it from watching any evening of prime time network television.
Obviously, this has a lot to do [...]

Even though it was officially an “interim” report, The Kay Report has been accepted by most in the media (including a groveling Bill O’Reilly, who’s been making the talk show rounds recently apologizing for believing Iraq had WMD) as proof that there were/are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Kay’s actual comments, aside from a [...]

From Bush’s speech last night:

“We meet during the presidential primary season. We’re witnessing a clear trend–it looks like we have a winner in the Republican primaries. The other party’s nomination battle is still playing out. The candidates are an interesting group, with diverse opinions: For tax cuts, and against them. For Nafta, and against Nafta. [...]