Top 10 opinion items of last week
As measured by visits to the website, between Aug. 31-Sept. 6 (with the measurement stopping on Friday morning):
1) The impossible dream, by Joel Stein.
2) The peace racket, by Bruce Bawer.
3) Mideast peace through porn, Editorial.
4) What the Constitution says about Iraq, by Mario Cuomo.
5) Is America really pro-bailout?, by Peter Viles.
6) Letters to the editor.
7) The media's Katrina malpractice, by Jonah Goldberg.
8) Globalism and Barbie's behind, by Jennifer Tang.
9) Shades of Mexican, by Gregory Rodriguez.
10) A Vietnam war in O.C., by Nick Schou. And if only you knew by just how wide a margin Joel Stein's column about home urinals outshot the competition.... Arguably the best value added by the e-mail response to the column was this link. Last week's Top 10 here.
2) The peace racket, by Bruce Bawer.
3) Mideast peace through porn, Editorial.
4) What the Constitution says about Iraq, by Mario Cuomo.
5) Is America really pro-bailout?, by Peter Viles.
6) Letters to the editor.
7) The media's Katrina malpractice, by Jonah Goldberg.
8) Globalism and Barbie's behind, by Jennifer Tang.
9) Shades of Mexican, by Gregory Rodriguez.
10) A Vietnam war in O.C., by Nick Schou. And if only you knew by just how wide a margin Joel Stein's column about home urinals outshot the competition.... Arguably the best value added by the e-mail response to the column was this link. Last week's Top 10 here.
Re: #9 Shades of Mexican by Gregory Rodriguez-
It's ironic that the NAACP used Mexican-American cases of discrimination in Brown V Board of Education. As Rodriguez pointed out, for much of the 20th century, Mexican-American legal strategy was not to end jim crow, but to win the same privileges as whites. With Jim Crow's demise, the switch from "other white" to "other minority" then is seen by many as an opportunistic move to take advantage of affirmative action and other such programs. That's why analogy of the latino immigrant struggle to the civil rights movement makes people crazy. And, the analogy of Elvira Arrellano, a convicted identity thief, to Rosa Parks makes people even more crazy.
Posted by: sandra m | September 12, 2007 at 12:07 PM
In the darkness of a melody.
There’s a leak
at the end of a distant
delight, and often,
when a delicate
line arrives in the
fear of a blackbird,
a tender profile
invents, in a moment,
the light of a
sunrise, the luminous
charm recalling
the past.
Posted by: Francesco Sinibaldi | September 15, 2007 at 12:04 PM