Dumbass Debate
I just read Joe Manthey’s tirade against POTUS, etc. or “Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive” (Jan. 8 Letters to the Editor). Well, here’s my own tirade:
What kind of dumbass would not get the message of this play, and what kind of dumbass would think that it was prejudiced against all men? It was clearly only about POTUS. Does Manthey think he is as great as Donald Trump thinks he is?
And as for Laura Coti Cohen (of The Larchmont Buzz), is she trying to say that all women are just like the seven specific women in the play? Of course, they are “simpering and foolish, morally bereft and addled, immature and flailing”; they are Trump’s women.
Both Mathley and Cohen were coloring all men and all women with the same crayons when this play was only about one specific man and seven specific women. So, who’s prejudiced now?
Buck Moon
Rohnert Park
Highway to Hell
What’s cool about the Trump/Musk/Kennedy/Vance/Citizens United oeuvre is that, whereas society used to have standards of behavior (many violations of which brought social sanctions), the days of right and wrong are now officially over.
The road ahead is now a highway without speed limits, where you do, or say, what you want, and no one will be able to respond, “Whoa, now, we don’t have that here. It’s against the law.”
Equality under the law? Courtesy? Civility? Mutual respect? Logic? Reason? The common good?
So quaint, those days, weren’t they?
Craig J. Corsini
San Rafael
Grave Situation
Rest in Peace, America
July 4, 1776 – Jan. 20, 2025
Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they’ve done
Bob Canning
Petaluma
