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While bad-mouthing "swift-boating," Michael Kinsley seems to do some of his own with his suggestion that one party, the GOP, is more inclined to use this type of tactic than the other [June 23]. L. Knickerbocker, BOLIVAR...
...Obama's Radical Friends Essayist Michael Kinsley argues that it is "absurd" to make an issue of Barack Obama's relationship with unrepentant Weather Underground bombers Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn [June 9]. If this association exposes Obama as a radical or "a man with terrible judgment," Kinsley writes, then the same could be said of many respectable people who have also not shied away from Ayers and Dohrn. But none on that "respectable list" proclaim their superior judgment, as Obama does. More importantly, they are not running for President. Jonathan Karsh, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania...
...Gene-Screening Michael Kinsley misses a long-term generational effect of perpetuating defective genomes [May 19]. As a former genetics graduate student, I've seen tragic outcomes when parents with inherited diseases (or propensities for them) decide to pass their genes on to future offspring. Sometimes this is done with ignorance, sometimes with hopeful fatalism, sometimes with contrarian determination to prove that "I really am quite O.K.!" Carrying deleterious genes is certainly not within the carrier's control, but dooming a not yet conceived child to receive them certainly is. Discrimination is not always a pejorative term. John T. Lowry...
...Michael Kinsley misses a long-term generational effect of perpetuating defective genomes [May 19]. As a former genetics graduate student, I've seen tragic outcomes when parents with inherited diseases (or propensities for them) decide to pass their genes on to future offspring. Sometimes this is done with ignorance, sometimes with hopeful fatalism, sometimes with contrarian determination to prove that "I really am quite O.K.!" Carrying deleterious genes is certainly not within the carrier's control, but dooming a not yet conceived child to receive them certainly is. Discrimination is not always a pejorative term. John T. Lowry, AUSTIN, TEXAS...
...articles I've read about the economic-stimulus package, Kinsley's makes the most sense. The U.S. infrastructure is in deplorable condition, and rebuilding it would create high-paying jobs that couldn't be outsourced. Bridges and highways need repair, new nuclear power plants would replace coal-fired plants, and an agency dedicated to developing new energy sources would allow us to end our dependency on foreign oil. But if this is too ambitious a plan for our politicians, they can give me my handout and I'll buy a large-screen TV. Jerry Ebersbaker, HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE...