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The Aging Process

8.25.06 @ 12:01AM

SIXTY-YEAR MAN
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Happy Birthday, Mr. Ex-President:

The bubble is firmly encased around him. He's the rock star president (another '60s originated phenom) and will always attract young mindless celebrity agog groupies. Ms. Mayo is of the older groupie persuasion and has no bubble to protect her from the same real world. She bet on the wrong horse of political philosophy to invest her life in. You're right about their coming reaction to even more unpleasant awakenings. We need to set the national civility system on SEVERE as the elections near and all these unhinged people can argue with is their excretory system.
-- Laurey Boyd

I too am among the group turning 60 along with the President and the Ex-President. Somewhere in the back of my head there is a voice screaming "You can't be that old"! Alas, I am, but our generation is determined to stay young. We work longer, we take care of ourselves and we do not consider ourselves to be old. The Ex-President might as well enjoy it. It's coming!
-- Jean Sherrill
Huntingdon, Tennessee

I would love to meet Bob Tyrrell; I know he's very busy. But someday, just a chance to say thank you for educating me in true conservatism He and Rush are my political heroes.

Count me as part of the 70% who are 60 and don't mind at all. I am busy, I write, I love being with my grandchildren -- it doesn't get much better than this. Sixty was a tough number till I took stock of my life and realized how good it is.

So, just in case, I never meet R. Emmett Tyrrell, I'll say thank you right now. You are a great thinker and writer. Thanks for many hours of education.
-- Judy Beumler
Louisville, Kentucky

I guess it is better to obsess over the former president's birthday than the confront the disaster that has been created by the current president. Pathetic!
-- Michael Roush

EMERGENCY CALL
Re: Jeremy Lott's Pain in the Neck:

You need a physician, not a chiropractor or masseuse. Torticollis is a neurological problem. Get yourself examined by a neurologist, pronto!
-- Louise
Frederick, Maryland

Some good does actually come from age. My experience in life tells me that the reason so very many medical professionals make snide remarks and generally denigrate chiropractors and massage therapists is that there are times when ONLY chiropractic/massage techniques work. Been there, done that.

I will make an exception in the above opinion for acupuncture. I have never had acupuncture, so I can't judge its efficacy one way or the other.
-- Ken Shreve

POPULARITY GEOPOLITICS
Re: Christopher Orlet's Why They Don't Hate Us:

Whence this need to be liked? I don't even care if my neighbors like me, as long as they shower regularly.
-- David Govett
Davis, California

When I came home from Vietnam the traitors Fonda and Kerry, and the protesting Clintons and their ilk, were frenzied in their efforts to encourage the North Vietnamese to kill more Americans so there could be peace. Their words stung like lashes. The hatred, the vitriol they spewed made it seem to me that perhaps there may truly be something fundamentally wrong with the United States. My father, God Bless him, quickly dispelled that notion with the following words: "Go to any border of this country with any other country. When you get there look at the way the feet are pointing. On the other side of our border they are all pointing in. Feet don't lie, people do."

Try the same thing to day. Nothing has changed.
-- Jay W. Molyneaux

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