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Righting Religion

2.21.07 @ 12:01AM

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The world goes steadily to hell in a hand basket, it seems, yet gazillions of column inches in print, hours of radio and TV air time and incalculable numbers of key strokes have been expended on the late Ms. Smith and now her demise. While her lifestyle's instructive in many ways, for sure its final tragedy, which seems to promise a life of its own for years, is leaving this child to a world that seems to only care about it as physical currency among greedy adults and ambulance chasers, and fodder for talk-show hosts, opinionists and gossip columnists. May God have mercy on the kid and protect it from all this madness -- and bring it parents who care about it, not the funnel of money it might be.
-- C. Kenna Amos
Princeton, West Virginia

It was often said that Anna Nicole Smith's life was "a train wreck waiting to happen." Well, from the death of her son on the day she gave birth to her daughter, down to the day she died, it was a train wreck happening. Now there's only wreckage to be cleaned up, all under public scrutiny.

It's sad. Very sad. But maybe it can serve as a warning for someone else.
-- Robert Nowall
Cape Coral, Florida

DO RUN-RUN
Re: Peter Hannaford's Karl Rove Was Wrong:

If these political campaigns keep starting earlier and earlier, they will become background noise. Just another piece of yesterday's and today's ho-hum news. But how egos will get stroked. Lots of people will get employed as advisers and advisers' advisers, apologists, revisionists, go-fers, etc. And the punditry will keep rolling out whatever pundits do.

And in the case of wannabes such as Hillary R. Clinton -- who denied for how long that she wasn't running, wasn't gonna run, etc.? -- it'll give potential voters the opportunity to scorch the honesty and integrity of politicians and berate them, yet one more time.
-- C. Kenna Amos
Princeton, West Virginia

Don't know where you folks get your information from, but this political junky just shuts the news off as soon as it turns to the candidates. Listening to the political hype this early on is about as useful and interesting as watching paint dry while listening to my grass growing in the back yard. There is a war on, folks, and we seem to have a Democratic Congress hell bent on making certain we turn tail and run. Defend America by staying vigilant and don't let the Murthas of this country out of you sight because left up to the Murthas, we will be fighting terrorists in our neighborhoods and cities. There is plenty of time for presidential politics down the road. Let's support the president we have shall we?
-- Jim L
East Sandwich, Massachusetts

GRID PRO QUO
Re: William Tucker's Tilting at Wind Energy:

Many of your columns I have read are lucid and seem to have a grasp of technology and a few of the basic constructs of the laws of thermal dynamics.

You obviously researched the basic numbers in "tilting at windmills". I only beg to differ with dismissing the technology altogether as medieval or primitive. It is far from primitive technology and contributions from all energy producing technologies may ultimately be what are needed.

Also note that the science of power conversion improves every year and the openings for "community" or private dynamos of all power origins making a contribution to the grid expands with increases in that technology. Lookup vanner.com, (among others) for example, as small companies making grid tie appliances with technologies that existed eight years ago.

Note the "eyesores" you describe dotting the country as windmills are exceeded in number and visual frequency by the common "cellular tower." For those driving in the countryside, losing contact, appearance of an ugly cellular tower down the road is a thing of beauty. Likewise will be the perception of those viewing common "eyesores" of a more cellularized grid of the future.

The glass is half full. Thanks for the opportunity to respond.
-- Allen Kelly
Contract Senior Power Conversion Engineer
Endicott, New York

NOT A LEAVE US ALONE VOTER
Re: Ron Schoenberg's letter (under "Culture Wars") in Reader Mail's The Real Democrats:

Ron Schoenberg's letter, hitting as it does on almost every known liberal cliche, is worthy of a response. Here goes.

Letter to the Editor

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