Comments on: Who Needs A Civics (Or Composition) Lesson?

By: jeff

jeff — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:20:57 +0000

Fattttttttttt ugly mouth

By: jeff

jeff — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:20:19 +0000

god i hope that ugly bitch shuts her fat fucking ugly fat fucking fat fat at at at at at ugly ugly mouth

By: BJ Nemeth

BJ Nemeth — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 04:07:28 +0000

Gene — I know I’m three days late to the comment party, but your post hit the nail on the head. This is an important letter, and it deserves to be written (or at least edited) by someone who understands the importance of quality writing.

While I could easily write a better letter than they did, I don’t think I could have written a better analysis of that letter than you did.

By: Bill Rini

Bill Rini — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:19:32 +0000

I just feel honored that Gene used me as an example of someone only slightly less stupid than Shulman.

Woot!

By: Gary Carson

Gary Carson — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:07:04 +0000

It’s an awful letter. It’s bad writing, bad grammer, bad punctuation, bad law, and bad logic. Awful.

By: Bayne

Bayne — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:32:15 +0000

If I send a form e-mail to either of my Senators or my Congressman it gets routinely bounced. If I want to contact them electronically I fill out their Senate or House web sites form and get their form response to what ever issue I have selected from pulldown menu.

My Congressman’s staff (Mike Honda) does a far better job than my Senator’s staff to make sure response is crafted well.

By: Darcy

Darcy — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:34:18 +0000

Thank you, BG, for the laugh out loud comment. Thank you, Gene, for standing up for the correct use of the comma and for the English language in general.

By: biggestron

biggestron — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:47:07 +0000

cf: Haley’s comment

I thought the same thing: mad is actually defined primarily as insane. The term they wanted was any synonym of angry, upset,… But judging by the rest of the general (with a small g) crapiness of the letter, perhaps ‘mad’ is the correct term after all.

Now whether anyone will cater to insane voters remains to be seen.

But then again, Bush did get two terms.

By: bitguru

bitguru — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:02:40 +0000

I’m with you most of the way, but I don’t see why “presidents” or “generals” should be capitalized, and I’m not so sure about “members” (of Congress) either.

see http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/capital.asp

By: APOSEC72

APOSEC72 — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:39:10 +0000

But, I, am, mad, and, I want, to, be, heard,,,,,

The run-on sentences and fragments could be expected of someone in elementary school, not a “legal expert”.

Sheesh.