Bash time
Newburgh, N.Y.: To Voicer Greg Horak, who says it’s ironic that “unholy” President Bush attended the Pope’s funeral: It’s not ironic, but you can set your watch to the fact that no matter what happens in world news for the next four years, at least one whiny liberal moron will somehow use it as a way to bash the President.Alan Piciocchi
Amen to that, Brother. But then again, this is New York, which is a cursed blue-state.
Econometrics
Brooklyn: “Never has the death of one man touched so many, so deeply …” I agree, but I’d like to see a real number, maybe an econometric regression study on how many people would still be alive today had the Pope changed his mind on condoms.Alexander Boldizar
What difference does the Pope’s decision on condoms make? People are having sex regardless of marriage. That’s also against the teachings of the church, so what difference does it make if he endorses condoms? I doubt people are citing the Pope when they make the decision not to use a rubber. Unless you count the moaning of “Oh God” in the midst of the act, but the Pope isn’t God…
Go forth and multiply
Ridgewood: The fact is condoms and other means of artificial birth control are by nature against the meaning of sex and the Pope could no more easily have changed church doctrine about artificial birth control than he could have ruled that it is no longer dangerous to jump off a tall building.The Rev. Alfred R. Guthrie
St. Matthias R.C. Church
Well said, Reverend. Shame it takes a Reverend to make such a lucid point.
Dust to dust
Bronx: Not even Jesus Christ had such a burial. Sheesh.Edwin Garcia
Jesus Christ didn’t touch as many lives while he was alive. Most of the reverence for Christ came after he died. Even then there were thousands of people who watched him walk with the cross and thousands more who watched him hang on the cross until he died. Considering how long ago that was, he had a huge funeral. Oh wait, this wasn’t an intelligent point, just another shot at the coverage of that religious guy.
Off the playlist
Ozone Park: For a week, we heard the beauty of Gregorian chants, the Ave Maria and Ave Verum, the solemn Latin litanies. Sadly, you no longer hear them in church.Mary Hughes
I hate to say it Mary, but most churchgoers don’t speak Latin anymore. It’s just the way of the world. It’s also one of the ways the ultra-conservative-super-traditional-unbending church liberalized itself in an effort to attract new faithful to masses on Sunday.
Sentry duty
Brooklyn: I’d like to thank the “Minutemen” who are guarding the Arizona border against the flood of illegal aliens entering our country. If politicians are afraid to do anything, citizens are not.Joyce Dalli Blondo
Politicians are afraid to do a lot of things. Except that which will guarantee re-election. If there were fewer hispanics in this country, you could bet your ass this wouldn’t even be an issue.
Home on the range
Jamaica: Can you please stop printing letters that argue for the thousandth time that “this land was illegally taken from the native people who were here”? There probably ain’t a place on the planet that at one time or another didn’t belong to somebody else.Michael Zvirblis
Liberal guilt.
Leaving the nest
Astoria: What a great letter that was from Voicer J. Thomas Dilberger. He’s so intelligent and insightful. I mean, these “kids moving back home with their parents by the thousands because they can’t function as adults” – he’s absolutely right! They’re lazy! It’s not because entry-level jobs don’t pay enough to allow “kids” to live on their own! I’m 24, and I’m barely scraping by. My money-related stress level is more than I’ve ever had to deal with. So the next time someone feels it necessary to make light of a serious choice I myself have had to consider several times, please let me know, so I have plenty of time to get my backside ready for them to kiss.Jim Dandeneau
I think you just proved his point. You want to because you can’t cut it. It’s not a bad thing, but don’t deny it either.
Cheesecake & beefcake
Manhattan: Your before-and-after pictures of Goldie Hawn, Farrah Fawcett, Diana Ross and Madonna were cruel, mean and petty. How come there were no pictures of some of these old men they dub as sex symbols?Sarah Murphy
Because men, like fine wine, get better with age. Think of Sean Connery who women started swooning over when he gave up the hair, and so on. The older he got, the more women wanted him. Warren Beaty? Same thing. And unlike Hawn, Fawcett, Ross, and Madonna, they didn’t get fat, wrinkly, and unkempt.
Running the trains
Kew Gardens: Transit Authority President Larry Reuter needs to leave. The system is behind the curve when compared with others around the world in safety, security and technology. It is an extraordinary asset that is being taken for granted. Those running it are the kind of people who, if you lost a finger, would remind you to be grateful that you have nine more left.Philip A. Serpico
Nine is a lot of fingers. I know someone with nine-fingers and she’s perfectly functional. Well physically, anyway. By the way, Serpico… Any relation?
Life and death
Elmsford, N.Y.: New York should not have a death penalty. State-operated killing is morally wrong. Making government employees kill as part of their job is wrong. It is not merely that the death penalty does not deter, cannot be applied fairly and degrades the value of human life. It is that indulging in such pointless, pandering cruelty reduces those involved to the level of those they deplore – deliberate takers of human life. The Assembly does the state a moral as well as a financial service if it lets the death penalty die.Arlene R. Popkin
Pointless? Pft… Read the next letter for my take:
West Islip, L.I.: Anyone who’s against the death penalty needs to visit Long Island Rail Road mass murderer Colin Ferguson upstate in prison and see him smile as he goes to sleep at night in his warm, comfy cot.
Daniel Andrews
Yep, that about sums it up.
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