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Seeing Is Believing

10.29.03 @ 12:09AM

INTELLIGENT REDESIGN
Re: Can You Believe It?!:

The new look, of the website, is great. I read The Prowler every day to keep up on what is going on in politics and culture. Keep 'em coming
-- Eric Waldner

Love your page, but please increase the type size.

I'm one of your senior readers and have great difficulty reading your introductory message and even greater difficulty reading the home page with its small type and gray background.

I want to be able to relish every word.
-- Dennis Losness
Amery, Wisconsin

It's good to know my beloved Spectator is rising from the ashes -- by the way, I have a secret Crush on Mr. Tyrrell. And Wlady ain't no slouch. However, in reading about the proposed format in your online credits, I couldn't help wondering about "compassionate" being included in the new look. I always thought every article in the Spectator was compassionate -- conservatism by it's very nature is an extremely loving ideology. Think about it -- good versus evil. We conservatives are just a bunch of love bugs, we don't like the bad guys. We think they egregiously muddy up the atmosphere, like great swooping vultures of doom. It follows naturally that our compassion for our fellows is mirrored in our ability to point out the error of the vulture's perverted ways (we love bugs cherish the truth), thereby reducing political and cultural pollution and making it easier for the rest of us to breathe. Now, that's compassion. :-)
-- Barbara Haugen
Cedar City, Utah

Hi, I can hardly read your fonts on my Presario 1500 set at 1280 x 1024. The text uses only half the width of my screen. Can you make the text larger so I can see it? Thank you,
-- Basil Weir
San Jose, California

FYI: Congrats on the new website layout, and two months ago I resubscribed to your magazine. Best wishes,
-- Stephen "Doc" Watson
Beaumont, Texas

Personally I would have preferred that you would have left it alone. Just like all the good Liberals, you can not seem to resist the temptation to radically alter whatever is working just fine and to insist on not changing those things that are in complete shambles. I will, however, adjust....
-- Ken Shreve
New Hampshire

I liked it better the way it was, but then, I'm a conservative.
-- Ralph Tuggle

LENIN PRIZE
Re: James Bowman's wry "Death Comes for the Archbishop," I think what the A.B. is saying about al Qaeda is like what another saintly man, Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, once said: "To make an omelet you have to crack a few eggs." And an omelet is a good thing, eh?
-- Jeffrey S. Erickson
Davidson, North Carolina

So Archie-b. Rowan thinks the goals of killing, converting, or enslaving all Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Bahai's, seculars, and other infidels, and for that matter all Muslims who aren't themselves Jihad Nazis, are serious moral goals? Talk about a really weird self-referential morality.
-- Kato the Eldar

AMONG THE STALINOIDS
Re: Shawn Macomber's Wrong Answer:

Pro-Kucinich Stalinists? Yes, they are that out of touch.

I recently attended an exhibition entitled "Voices of Dissent" at one of Houston's top-ranked artistic venues. (My excuse: a close friend was doing the A/V portion of a performance in the main hall. My actual purpose: opposition research, of course.) Two tables right next to each other mirrored your observations at the protest in DC: at one, Kucinich for President; at the other, Communists of the most vile stripe, featuring literature idolizing Stalin and Mao. I say "idolizing" instead of "defending" because they acknowledge nothing for which their heroes would need to apologize.

Letter to the Editor

topics:
Education, Iraq, Conservatism