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Comment on Kent State, James A. Rhodes & Ohio Today by Mary Gerster

Mary Gerster — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 01:49:43 +0000

Peter I so well remember the killings at Kent State and the outrage I felt at the senseless stupidity in the violence. The idea that the man who ordered the guard onto the campus which resulted in such carnage being honored with a statue and building is obscene.

Comment on Kent State, James A. Rhodes & Ohio Today by Ralph Meima

Ralph Meima — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:04:09 +0000

Peter, thanks for this reminder that brutalism can manifest in politics and public culture as well as in architecture, and that our society all too often falls to the temptation to stamp authoritarianism and power’s arrogance with legitimacy. I knew little about Kasich, and appreciated your reference so I could inform myself. Will future Ohioans’ breasts swell, decades from now, when they read the plaque beneath his bronze statue? What will it say?

Comment on Ron Paul on Osama bin Laden’s Assassination: Not Our Finest Hour by Mary Gerster

Mary Gerster — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:51:31 +0000

Peter as someone whose grandparents hail from Ireland I agree with Tom Welsh regarding the British. So many of today’s ills are due to the brutal colonialism of the Brits throughout the world. I do agree that trials are a more civilized route than assassination but a trial of Osama would have put anyplace it was held in jeopardy and made him into a martyr. He was evil incarnate as was Sadam and assassination to me seemed the swiftest justice and the safest for us in the long run Mary

Comment on Ron Paul on Osama bin Laden’s Assassination: Not Our Finest Hour by Tom Welsh

Tom Welsh — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:23:27 +0000

Ah, the myth of Churchill! Who recalls the military confronting striking miners at the time of the general strike, who recalls Churchill’s racist attitudes in respect of Colonies especially India? Oh, I forgot the mass bombing of civilians in German cities. What about his 1930′s failure to condemn Hitler while blinded by his anti-communism? This man was no demoncrat but was instead a defender of a racists empire and at home the defender of a suppressive class system.
No doubt there will be those who offer the defence – He was a child of his times! This is no excuse.

Comment on Economic Policy & The Dogs that are Howling by Peter Hunt

Peter Hunt — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:23:09 +0000

When the going gets rough and the snow deepens one revert to the basics and eats the dogs. Forgets the fast and assisted package and treks out by oneself.

What do the economists know of life all they want to do is accumulate power in the surrogate form of money. Food shelter and a warm and welcoming family are all that really counts. Forget the snow mobile or jet-ski. Go out and cut some wood for the fire.

Comment on Economic Policy & The Dogs that are Howling by ANNE CRUDGE

ANNE CRUDGE — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:58:06 +0000

In today’s New York Times, Paul Krugman once again defines the blindness of the G.O.P. What does it take for people to wake up and understand?

Comment on Appalachian Poverty’s Changed Face: Thoughts Provoked by Shelby Lee Adams’ Pictures by A. Petrillo

A. Petrillo — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:26:46 +0000

“The sensation of permanence”

Peter, my friend and mentor, this is a novel or memoir in a phrase.

Comment on W on Shopping & Flying After 9/11: What He Should Have Said by Peter Kinder

Peter Kinder — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:45:24 +0000

My apologies. I violated the first/maybe second rule of internet communications: No Sarcasm. I, too, have nothing whatsoever good to say about flying to day. This morning, I posted this story to my facebook account: http://abcnews.go.com/US/jetblue-flight-pilot-pleaded-tarmac-ordeal/story?id=14845299 My comment was that readers should make sure to get to p. 2 where you learn how to get off a plane stuck on the tarmack for seven hours.

‘Getting there is half the fun,’ the Big Gray Dog used to claim. Who’d have guessed in the 70s that airplanes would have no more creature comforts than buses. And, this story this afternoon: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/business/airlines-are-trying-to-cut-boarding-times-on-planes.html?_r=1&nl=afternoonupdate&emc=aua2

Comment on W on Shopping & Flying After 9/11: What He Should Have Said by ANNE

ANNE — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:48:30 +0000

Although I’m glad to see you blogging again, I must take issue with your statement ” And, what a wonderful way of life flying has become…” If this wasn’t said tongue-in-cheek, I wonder what planet you’ve been living on. As a refugee of a recent non-stop 10-hour flight from Hawaii, on which the airline served no meals (except for a dry sandwich for which they charged $7), and on which I sat next to a very fat man who drooled his flesh into my seat, I have nothing good to say about the way we fly today.

Comment on St. Clairsville, Ohio: What’s Facebook got against my hometown? by Q. Cook

Q. Cook — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 23:07:37 +0000

Happy Birthday as well, Peter
I wonder if Wheeling rates with anyone anymore other than Rick Perry who I read was just there for a fund raiser with “energy” execs – coal, I imagine.
Sad part of our country.