Word: kinsleys
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Kudos for Michael Kinsley's commentary exposing the fallacy of carbon offsets [July 2]. By analogy, he has shown this idea to be another example of spin designed to avoid responsibility for the garbage that is spewed into our environment...
...brilliant essay on exchanging credits for carbon use and child abuse, Kinsley has approached the paradoxical level of irony that Jonathan Swift achieved with A Modest Proposal. The logic is flawless, the intent is benign, yet the solution proposed is so repugnant. Perhaps that is the true nature of capitalism...
...Kinsley's commentary was full of words deploring Jones' dismissal on the basis of her having falsified her résumé, but only three of his words had any substantial relevance: "she did lie." It wasn't her lack of ability to do the job, which she apparently did very well. It was the lack of character in committing...
...Kinsley made an excellent argument in support of Jones. We should consider the many competent people who have sought further graduate study in order to enhance their capability to do a job, only to find that they're unemployable because of an excess of documented qualification. They're often not wanted because of a perceived threat to those under whom they would work. For every Marilee Jones, there's another person who has been passed over because she is considered overqualified...
...appalled that Kinsley would suggest that Jones should be rewarded for basing a career on a lie. We live in a time when people and animals die from poisons substituted for food and medicine, when buildings collapse because of shoddy construction and when American soldiers are being killed in a conflict initiated because of faulty intelligence. It is more important than ever that we restore honesty and honor to all facets of our lives. I do not want to see what happens to a world in which the graduates of M.I.T. or any other college can build a career...