Dear readers, This is my last column of the semester. This means most of you are too busy to read it, having higher priorities like studying for finals or writing papers. This is fine; I’m not offended. There is a time and place for everything.
Editor, The Kirtland Air Force Base jet fuel spill of 24 million gallons is the largest poisoning of underground water in the history of the United States. 24 million gallons is almost twice the size of the Exxon Valdez disaster. Read the powerful lead story in the Nov. 28 – Dec. 4 issue of the Weekly Alibi exposing this catastrophe.
Editor, In reply to the previous letters regarding the State of Israel and differing versions of history, I can only say this: The Jewish people accepted the desert; the Arabs refused the fertile land of honey.
Editor, The idea that the U.S. is lower down on happiness statistics because it isn’t laissez-faire capitalist enough is nonsense.
I want to thank Jason Darensburg for providing me with the real gem of a column, titled “US trails in happiness worldwide” in Wednesday’s Daily Lobo. It once again displays the need for socialists to distort the truth about reports, even when it’s the most subjective and equivocal study about the human condition.
Editor, Richard Forer’s letter published in Tuesday’s Daily Lobo, ”Glossing over history is bad, Israel never content,” is dumbed-down anti-Semitism at its best. And before anyone says the author is “Jewish,” what does that mean?
Let’s be honest. America is not exactly the happiest place in the world to live. Not by a long shot. A complete list of all the causes would take up another entire column. Needless to say, a lot of people are pretty miserable right now.
It’s staggering to think that in two millennia of Christian nations full of Christian leaders, there are almost no visible signs of Christ’s message in them. No emergence of a Christian nation that embodies the message of Jesus: charity, peace, humility, love.
Dear Dr. Peg, Now that it is dark earlier, it might be good to remind students, who dress for fashion rather than light-colored winter jackets or clothing with reflective panels, that it is important to look both ways before crossing a street.
Editor, Shlomo Karni’s recent letter published in Monday’s Daily Lobo, ‘History of the West Bank is worth recalling,” is a typical example of myth-making disguised as history. Its deceitful purpose is to deny documented history while sabotaging the Palestinian people’s struggle for self-determination.
Editor, On Nov. 6, the Daily Lobo ran a story (“Judge: Former UNM president granted access to seized property”) about my being granted access to property that APD had seized. There were a couple of errors in the story that I would like to correct. I would like to emphasize that I was never a partner or associate of Mr. Flory.
Editor, On June 25, 1976, my grandparents in Illinois were murdered in their sleep. They were retired farmers in their 80s. Six years later, a young Anglo man named Dale was arrested and confessed. Months after that, I wrote him, offering my forgiveness. He wrote me back — profoundly repentant for his terrible crime.
Editor, This coming Nov. 29 marks the 66th anniversary of the UN resolution to partition west Palestine into two states, Arab and Jewish. A few historical facts are worth recalling:
Editor, November 19 was the day I seemed to have been waiting for forever. I had been eagerly QDwaiting to vote against the “Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Ordinance” for months. Every day my Facebook page was filled with posts about the Respect ABQ Women Campaign and news about the upcoming election.
It’s pretty much a consensus, especially among many younger voters, that the current political climate isn’t really helping many people besides those already in power and low-information voters in both parties.
Editor, The Obama administration’s implementation of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, has been a topic of several cartoons in recent issues of the Daily Lobo. As witty as these cartoons may be, they are not amusing.
“I saw him again today!” I said to Maggie. “I was on the last part of my run and he was biking to class. We made eye contact as we passed. I flipped my hair and put forth more effort in those 30 seconds of my run than the previous hour! If only he knew that he was my secret lover.”
Editor, Very few people would argue that bad behavior always results from bad intent. So it is puzzling that in Friday’s Peer Review, Veena Patel claims that “The coupling of neuroscience and law allows us to update our ethical system to understand that bad behavior isn’t always bad intention.” The apparently unexamined aspect of this notion that an ethical code is in need of updating is a bit disconcerting, as is the implication that we all are in need of top-down enlightenment.
If ever there was a time to establish a World Parliament, it is now, in order to legislate strict punishment for hate crimes committed by local nationals against innocent migrants crossing borders for productive, law-abiding activity. No longer can distinct countries be trusted to enforce their own laws within their own borders.
Editor, I agree with Mac Morin’s well-written letter objecting to Bible cherry-picking in Tuesday’s Daily Lobo. However, as to his comment on consistency, I’m reminded of Charles Kettering’s famous quote: “Beware of logic; it is an organized way of going wrong with confidence.”
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