Web Letters: Drowning Our Sorrows, Lifting a Glass

Diary of a Mad Law Professor

By Patricia J. Williams

This article appeared in the February 2, 2009 edition of The Nation.

January 15, 2009

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  • Dare we call them dubyous achievements? In that manner we have a shot at the OED, so that in a thousand years this uniquely perfect American Pyrrhus, whose every victory was a defeat, every success a failure, every failure a catastrophe, will achieve his greatest victory: to be enshrined in English as the epitome of incompetent, misguided leadership.

    Barry Blitstein

    New York, NY

    01/16/2009 @ 09:18am


  • Who says the nightmare is over? When I see the fascists imrpisoned in the Hague, inclduing a shackled Pelosi, the torture approver, I will believe that it's over. Obama has said "we have to moce forward." Those could be the words of Pinochet or Stalin. That's what happens when we allow foreign governments to dictate our foreign policy. That's what happens when fascism encompasses the USA. Our dictatorship has been no better than that of Pinochet: same prisons, same torture, same arrogance, same absence of an independent judiciary, and even more murdered. Look forward? To what? To silent acquiescence of the Gazan slaughter of babies? What have we become?

    stanley hersh

    New York, NY

    01/15/2009 @ 6:18pm


  • Global warming, Kathleen Quinlan, Clean Waters Act, politicization of the Justice Dept., Jack Abramhoff, Trent Lott...

    sheila burke

    Eagle River, AK

    01/15/2009 @ 4:14pm


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