Editor:
When I was a kid we used to chase rats in an old barn down the street. We took rubber hoses and tried to hit them as they scurried though the dimly lit barn. Lousy visibility made it a fairly equal contest. All you could see was a flash of movement and perhaps an eye or black tail as they scurried to safety. Occasionally we got one, but that was rare. It was the thrill of the chase and not the dead rat that mattered.
In many ways, our American institutions are like old barns that makes perfect hiding places for rats. In the corporate darkness, where there is plenty of grain, anything can be stolen and tucked away. Republicans lie and steal because they can and the rewards are great. Greed is important of course, but the real Republican thrill lies in beating someone else to the punch and accumulating enough power for the next scam. Many Republicans are sociopaths without a conscience, so the Republican Party makes a perfect barn. Liars, bullies, and crooks are the norm and even an ideal.
The Republicans are barn rats, while the Democrats are white lab rats. The difference between a Rahm Emmanuel and a Dick Cheney is minimal. Both are paranoid megalomaniacs and sociopaths. You can always hear them scurrying in the darkness.
John Hanks
Laramie, Wyo.
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Letter to the Editor: Reminders of tyranny
In an academic (but not particularly intellectual) institution like the University of Wyoming, it might be a good idea to rename all of the University's buildings so that they can be used as talking points for future generations.
We could be the first university to turn its campus into a living monument to villainy. After naming a building after Cheney, we could name another after Nixon and then perhaps another after Grover Norquist (the Republican genius who decided to destroy America in order to save it).
Then, we could name our ROTC building after Benedict Arnold, who sold out his country because he didn't get a promotion. Certainly, President McKinley and William Randolph Hearst should be paired for blowing up the Battleship Maine as a pretext for the Spanish American War. L.B.J. should be remembered as the first of the American strong men to get us into a war solely in order to get rid of our huge inventory of weapons.
And, finally, Bush should be honored by renaming Old Main for the whole Bush crime family.
John Hanks
Laramie, Wyo.
We could be the first university to turn its campus into a living monument to villainy. After naming a building after Cheney, we could name another after Nixon and then perhaps another after Grover Norquist (the Republican genius who decided to destroy America in order to save it).
Then, we could name our ROTC building after Benedict Arnold, who sold out his country because he didn't get a promotion. Certainly, President McKinley and William Randolph Hearst should be paired for blowing up the Battleship Maine as a pretext for the Spanish American War. L.B.J. should be remembered as the first of the American strong men to get us into a war solely in order to get rid of our huge inventory of weapons.
And, finally, Bush should be honored by renaming Old Main for the whole Bush crime family.
John Hanks
Laramie, Wyo.
Letter to the Editor: Nuclear weapons still pose a threat
Editor:
When the atomic bomb came on the scene, we immediately gave the worst invention ever conceived to a bunch of sociopaths including the Dulles brothers in America and Stalin in Russia. Even more sociopaths, including Israel, Pakistan, and North Korea have the bomb now. All we need is a suicidal sociopath like Hitler to finally bring the curtain down. I thought Bush, Cheney, Putin or Israel might win the suicidal sociopath race this time.
It takes between 50 to 100 nuclear bursts to kick off a nuclear Winter (50 degrees below zero for 100 years). Voila! At last a nuclear exchange will have solved all our resources, population, and economic problems. When has mankind ever seriously dealt with any sociopath without substituting one for another. The truth is that we just love our liars, bullies, and crooks.
When nukes arrived on the scene, no thinking person ever thought we would last another sixty years. So far, nothing less than a miracle has occurred. We are still here today largely due to sheer dumb luck.
John Hanks
Laramie, Wyo.
When the atomic bomb came on the scene, we immediately gave the worst invention ever conceived to a bunch of sociopaths including the Dulles brothers in America and Stalin in Russia. Even more sociopaths, including Israel, Pakistan, and North Korea have the bomb now. All we need is a suicidal sociopath like Hitler to finally bring the curtain down. I thought Bush, Cheney, Putin or Israel might win the suicidal sociopath race this time.
It takes between 50 to 100 nuclear bursts to kick off a nuclear Winter (50 degrees below zero for 100 years). Voila! At last a nuclear exchange will have solved all our resources, population, and economic problems. When has mankind ever seriously dealt with any sociopath without substituting one for another. The truth is that we just love our liars, bullies, and crooks.
When nukes arrived on the scene, no thinking person ever thought we would last another sixty years. So far, nothing less than a miracle has occurred. We are still here today largely due to sheer dumb luck.
John Hanks
Laramie, Wyo.
