Correspondence
Correspondence HillaryCare 2.0 Regarding Fred Barnes's editorial ("S-Veto It," October 8) exposing the fallacy that mandatory health insurance is analogous to mandatory auto insurance, I would...
...Of course, that is par for much of life...
...HillaryCare 2.0 would mandate that I cover myself...
...The Weekly Standard welcomes letters to the editor...
...Defining James Down David Klinghoffer's effort to buttress faith with a few selected snippets from William James ("James's Faith," October 8) neglects the overwhelming import of James's The Varieties of Religious Experience...
...Collision, comprehensive, and medical are up to you...
...Ifollowed Jonathan V. Last's article exploring the virtual world of Second Life ("Get a (Second) Life...
...I cannot understand people pretending to live on the web...
...Scott Eugene Farleigh Thornton, Colo...
...Bob Boomsma Madison, Wise...
...Religion, in short, is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism...
...Edward L. Schrems Norman, Okla...
...I have neither the need nor the time for a "Second Life...
...I'm afraid I still don't get the point of it...
...Correspondence HillaryCare 2.0 Regarding Fred Barnes's editorial ("S-Veto It," October 8) exposing the fallacy that mandatory health insurance is analogous to mandatory auto insurance, I would like to point out that by law (at least in Colorado) you are required to carry only liability auto insurance...
...Letters will be edited for length and clarity and must include the writer's name, address, and phone number...
...James wrote: "The pivot round which the religious life revolves, as we have traced it, is the interest of the individual in his private personal destiny...
...I can understand reading news on the web...
...I'm 62 years old and not retired...
...I can understand porn on the web...
...These people need to get a real life...
...Gioia righty states, "On the Road is a book of broken dreams and failed plans...
...Get a (Real) Life...
...October 1) right up until he wrote: "You can see why reporters and corporate honchos and foundation presidents get excited...
...I can understand eBay...
...And Gioia points out the trouble from the start, and might have mentioned that for quite some time Sal Cassidy takes the wrong road, the lightly traveled U.S...
...Big Brother (or in this case Big Sister) is once again trying to protect me from myself...
...6 instead of U.S...
...I dispute the notion that humanity can be summed up quite so easily as is implied by Klinghoffer's review...
...That's the sadness of Kerouac's life for me: the wrong road from the start...
...For my money, Kerouac's prose in the story "October in the Railroad Earth" is unrivaled anywhere as quintessential beat, superlative stream-of-consciousness, and melodic, hard driving American prose poetry at its best...
...Max Cohen Dublin, N.H...
...Pragmatism is James's way of accommodating human vanity by proclaiming that objective truth is unnecessary to the ego and that fantasies are more easily obtained, contending essentially that all we really need is to feel good about our importance in the scheme of things...
...In the last nine months, I swam three miles non-stop, got a new dog, and took up playing the sax...
...May grace abound for Kerouac, Cassidy, and the rest of us...
...Whether or not I care to cover my 1989 Chevy Caprice station wagon for collision and comprehensive is up to me...
...Hence, mandatory auto insurance is only to cover the "other guy" when I do something stupid...
...On The Road, Again Ienjoyed Ted Gioia's thorough and thoughtful essay on Jack Kerouac ("Fifty Years On," September 24...
...If redemption were based on works, some of those lines would be enough...
...You may fax letters: (202) 293-4901 or email editor@weeklystandard.com...
...I can understand Amazon...
Vol. 13 • October 2007 • No. 6
