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3.29.05 @ 12:01AM

JUST LIKE A NOW WOMAN
Re: Andrew Cline's Not Their Kind of Woman:

WOW, Now! The real question is how does NOW spell HYPOCRISY? There is plenty on their site about violence to women but, I guess your totally estranged and living with another woman husband who had two kids for him while he insists on pulling out your food and water tube does not qualify as violence to a woman?! Terri apparently has no rights in the definitions of women's rights that NOW is interested in! There is also plenty about disabled women on their website, but I guess Terri does not fit into any disabled category that NOW is interested in since she can't link arms with them actively! What a sick sick feminist bunch! I think all of them should have food, water, and taxpayer funding withheld permanently!
-- J. Kerr
Jones, Oklahoma

Regarding your apparent disgust that national feminist organizations have not stepped up to challenge the conditions of Schiavo's pending death, I feel I need to make a few brief remarks to you:

1) You have no place, as a man, helping women's organizations develop a platform. You just can't possibly understand.

2) Perhaps the organizations in question realize the illegitimacy of the media bombardment surrounding this single case, and instead wish to focus their attention on issues relevant on a much larger scale than a single human life.

3) Your presumption that left-wing feminists would use Schiavo's husband's lifestyle against him is possibly the most ignorant idea I've read in print this year. Lifestyle issues, such as gay rights, come down to the basic presumption that what people do intimately should not be used to judge them. Why then would a group which advocates for sexual equality make light of a situation which is charged with gender stereotypes of expectation?

Feel free to answer on that last, somewhat rhetorical question. If you're going to write about feminists, perhaps you should consider becoming one. It would make all involved parties much happier, I'm sure.

Thank you,
-- Shawn Fleek

Am I the only one that thinks it is a little odd that a man is questioning what is important to womens' rights organizations? It's like asking a white man to report on the importance of NAACP issues.

Like I said -- just a thought.
-- John

WHEN ALL ABOUT YOU
Re: Patrick Michael's Half-Baked Alaska:

Dr. Patrick Michaels' analysis of Alaskan Senatorial surrender to global warming alarmists was accurate in recognizing that such Kyotophilia cannot be justified by sound science or economics. But that of course is precisely the point. Climate change policy is about green faith and religion, not rationality.

Eleven of twelve New England Senators have backed greenhouse gas regulation that will surely sharply raise energy prices but have no detectable affect on global warming. For some, like Olympia Snowe, it's just practical re-election politics. For others like Susan Collins, Lincoln Chafee, and Jim Jeffords, supporting the green left is simply attending services with their co-religionists. Only John Sununu has kept his head.
-- Jon Reisman
Cooper, Maine

EXTRA CREDIT
Re: James G. Poulos's A Democratic Domino:

"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography" may be an old saying, but it does have an author. Since Mr. Poulos thinks highly enough of his readers that he expects their knowledge to encompass Rousseau and Locke, then I suspect we all can handle the name Ambrose Bierce as well.
-- Michael Robkin
Altadena, California

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