If the left spends more time attacking Bush than it does attacking Hussein, it’s because Bush is more likely to listen, and because, as Americans, our primary responsibility is to keep watch on our own government, and because there is plenty of criticism of Hussein coming out of the White House. It’s not because we like Saddam, or fail to recognize his brutal, anti-democratic behavior. That I even have to explain this is just amazing. I can only assume that Smyth and Marc Cooper do a lot of drinking together, because they seem to share the same utterly unreal ideas about the anti-war movement. Please replace them both with someone — anyone — who knows what she’s talking about.
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Re: “Clouds and Cuckoos” [A Lot of Night Music, February 21–27]. Caught the pic of Gyorgy Ligeti in the last ish and thought to read up on the gent. Instead, I got a chronolog about Alan Rich’s decade-backdated earlier review, Alan Rich’s bootlegging of a concert, Alan Rich’s noisy box-seat neighbor and Alan Rich’s transliterations of foreign-language misnuancings, amongst myriad other pettishnesses. The most common pronoun: I, I, I, I, I . . . ad infinitum. Is there an editor overlooking the writers up there in the Weekly offices? Oh, and could you one day do an article on Ligeti? We already know plenty about Alan Rich.
—Marc S. Tucker Manhattan Beach
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Re: Dave Shulman’s “The End of the Fucking World Survey” [Sitegeist, February 21–27]. I loved that article. It is work like Shulman’s that gives me hope in this fucked-up world. When I was growing up in the ’50s and the ’60s, I never imagined it would get so bad and cracker-ass. Bush is a scum-sucking Texas snake. Keep up the excellent work, and resist evil.
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