Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Wooo!
The Daily Cal, number 1 in web excellence, has not updated their website, and I don't feel like running out and grabbing another paper copy. Instead, I'll do another Daily Planet Letter Sprint.
Ron Lowe presents an almost-coherent letter.
Two registered sex offenders who had their addresses listed on the Internet were executed in Bellingham, Wash.; they had committed transgressions, but their killer committed an even greater transgression by exacting an eye-for-an-eye vengeance.
Not just any vengeance. Eye-for-an-eye vengeance. Of course, now that I think about it, eye-for-an-eye vengeance should've included some broomstick sodomy, not murder. So I guess Ron is just using "eye-for-an-eye" as a generic term for vengeance. Which, of course, raises the question why it's used as a redundant modifier.
Chris Regalia actually writes something impressive, in response to a letter from Donna Mickelson last week, encouraging people to protest Berkeley Honda because it's like a party.
Donna Mickleson implores all your readers to "come on down and join the party" because "it's fun." She likens the entire affair to a neighborhood potluck. Well Donna, there is nothing "fun" about a labor dispute. There is nothing "fun" about technicians not being able to bring a paycheck home. There is nothing "fun" about the effect that the protest has on the dozens of employees who work at Berkeley Honda. There is nothing "fun" about trying to destroy one of the major generators of revenue for the City of Berkeley.
Thank you Donna, for giving us the perspective that the caricature that comes to mind when most people think of Berkeley is not a misrepresentation. People clearly care more about the protest (read: party) than they do the issues at stake.
Gerald Shmavonian is impressed with Katrina. It was like a whore. I guess. I'm not really sure what the point of the letter was.
Mary Ciddio spotted (OMG!!!) smoke!
4. This is state property and as a taxpayer I deserve to have smoke-free facilities.
Smokers, as taxpayers, do not deserve to have facilities in which they can smoke, by the way. The reason for this is simple. Uh... I just won't explain it to you.
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