Correspondence
Correspondence YUCCA MOUNTAIN ERUPTS AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST and public health specialist, I want to compliment Stephen IF Hayes for his very sensible and balanced article on the Yucca...
...However, this is the only type of article that I care to read about Reno...
...In 1950, it was beer-flavored syrup...
...JOHN DAVID DYCHE Louisville, KY MEAN-O RENO I LAUGHED SO HARD reading Matt Labash's "Janet Reno Rides Again" (March 25) that I think I had a minor stroke, and my co-workers enjoyed it as much as I did...
...Anything else and I might be forced to think about the utterly horrifying things she did to our country...
...It is only to acknowledge the practical limits on the use of Christian notions of evil to legitimize and support the war and to ask that those simultaneously making war while invoking the name of Christ provide some fuller, more satisfactory effort at reconciliation of the two...
...But it was worth every penny...
...JOEL L. WALKER Dover Plains, NY...
...Storing spent fuel at over 100 plant sites is an invitation to terrorists who wish us harm...
...Louis, I discovered that Ballantine and Schaefer were going for "premium" prices while Schlitz, Bud, and other somewhat "local" beers went for less...
...I thank Stephen F. Hayes for a look back to wonderful yet less prosperous times, and for a stroll down memory lane...
...It is long past due that the federal government meet its obligations to take possession of and dispose of high-level nuclear waste such as spent fuel as required by law...
...STEWART FARBER Bridgeport, CT I ENJOY reading THE WEEKLY STANDARD most of the time...
...It made a big difference on my $82/month GI pay...
...In the future, however, I hope THE WEEKLY STANDARD will keep in mind that some of its subscribers do not wish to see this type of thing...
...As for your male readers who may have appreciated the picture, they can surely get their jollies elsewhere...
...Schlitz beer...
...The article wouldn't have been complete without it...
...This is not to say the war on terrorism is morally wrong...
...So, might I ask what the point was of publishing the photo of the whorehouse brochure in Stephen IF Hayes's "Nevada Goes Nuclear...
...Theologians from Augustine to Bonhoeffer have wrestled with how to reconcile the use of violent physical force to fight evil with Christianity...
...Nietzsche," james W. Ceaser writes that two "connotations of the concept of evil draw at least implicitly on elements of religious faith, though not Christianity alone" (April 1...
...I suppose I should appreciate this visual aid, but I'll be darned if I just don't have that intellectual capacity...
...It is in these counterintuitive teachings that one finds the paradoxical, truly transforming power of the Christian message...
...All the girls loved it...
...Correspondence YUCCA MOUNTAIN ERUPTS AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST and public health specialist, I want to compliment Stephen IF Hayes for his very sensible and balanced article on the Yucca Mountain project ("Nevada Goes Nuclear," April 1...
...That's why the other sex was so fond of it—sort of like the ladies who insist on sipping their Manhattans through a straw...
...And I'm a native New Yorker...
...Schlitz was my brew of choice back in the 1950s...
...At the time, another beer was coming on strong here in the East—Miller High Life...
...When I hit a St...
...We should all recognize the environmental, climatic, and strategic benefits of nuclear energy...
...Ceaser omits, curiously and conspicuously in the context of an article concerning how President Bush's Christian faith informs his use of the term and concept of evil, any consideration of the direct teaching of Jesus on responding to evil...
...One is "the idea that in the presence of evil, resistance is a positive obligation...
...The other is that "in the struggle between good and evil, the universe is not indifferent...
...Beer was the only choice my dates ever had, considering my lack of a living wage then...
...Perhaps it's true we have no common decency...
...CHRISTINE PETRELLA Hickory, NC HAPPY HOUR AH, SWEET NOSTALGIA...
...Yes, it was enlightening to read a firsthand account of the thoughts of the brothel workers...
...President Bush claims, no doubt sincerely, that Jesus changed his heart...
...With his "When You're Out Of Schlitz . . ." Casual (April 8), Stephen F. Hayes takes me for a pleasant trip to way back when...
...Miller has changed a great deal over the years...
...Nowhere...
...Yet he has not provided any indication of how his changed Christian heart can square war with the words and deeds of Jesus...
...Where in the life and teaching of Jesus does one find any support for responding to evil with violent force...
...Here in Westchester County it was marketed as a "premium" beer, and it cost a nickel or dime more than the local brews such as Ballantine and Schaefer...
...Louis watering hole on my way to Air Force Tech School in East St...
...Their efforts do not relieve individual Christians from the responsibility of wrestling with the issue themselves...
...I find it both enlightening and entertaining, and I also usually like it because I can leave it lying around the house without worrying about what a child may see...
...Doing so required them to go outside the life and teaching of Jesus, and even then they met with marginal success at best...
...In fact, Jesus teaches "resist not evil" and that "all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword...
...ELIZABETH BEAN Huntsville, AL IN JESUS' NAME IN HIS PROVOCATIVE PIECE "Bush vs...
...What a bargain—to be able to chug my favorite brew on the cheap...
...Without this, Christianity appears, if it does not in fact become, a religion of convenience and expedience...
Vol. 7 • April 2002 • No. 30
