Regarding "Emails questioned state’s role in water crisis" and "Illinois governor, GOP leaders want state takeover of Chicago schools" (Page A2), these two headlines perfectly express what is happening in states where Democrat politicians have ruled cities without challenge for over 50 years: everything is a mess, and it's time to find somebody to blame.
Fortunately for Democrat politicians, there's always the Republicans who have to come in and clean up their mess.
It's not just the schools in Chicago or the water system in Flint that are broken in those two broken cities. The Democrat Party is broken, and until that is acknowledged, the tragedies will multiply, and no amount of blame-shifting will fix them.
Pete Smith
Cypress, TX
Thursday, January 21, 2016
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Disqualified For Being A Crappy Writer
Regarding "Why Lanier Middle School should lose that Confederate name now" (Tuesday Gray Matters), the title of the opinion piece succinctly explains why blogger Andrea Greer feels the name of the school should change: the simple fact of Sidney Lanier being a southern white man during the civil war is sufficient reason to ban his name from polite society.
That simplistic approach stands in marked contrast to the man himself, not that Greer appears to know anything about him. In addition to being a Poet/Author/Musician, Lanier was also an English teacher, and Andrea Greer is sorely in need of the services of one. Her piece is an exercise in bad grammar and composition, both tortuous and torturous. That alone reasonably ought to disqualify her from having an opinion on Lanier's qualifications.
Pete Smith
Cypress, TX
That simplistic approach stands in marked contrast to the man himself, not that Greer appears to know anything about him. In addition to being a Poet/Author/Musician, Lanier was also an English teacher, and Andrea Greer is sorely in need of the services of one. Her piece is an exercise in bad grammar and composition, both tortuous and torturous. That alone reasonably ought to disqualify her from having an opinion on Lanier's qualifications.
Pete Smith
Cypress, TX
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
LTE: Highest form of literature
Highest form of literature
Regarding "Fruit of their labor" (Page C1, Friday), on behalf of pun-lovers everywhere, thank you for this New Year's Eve sports section of the Chronicle, which had two references to fruit, including Houston Cougar's victory of Florida State in the Peach Bowl, and "Ole Miss recalls sour Peach" (Page C6).
But for sheer virtuosity, there is no improving on "Whitewash courtesy of extra-strength Tide" (Page C3) about Alabama's victory over Michigan State in the Cotton Bowl. The author connected the shutout, the victorious team's name and the name of the bowl in a pun trifecta, literally tying all the threads together.
Pun intended.
Pete Smith, Cypress
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/letters/article/Wednesday-letters-Stereotypes-wealth-puns-6738878.php
Regarding "Fruit of their labor" (Page C1, Friday), on behalf of pun-lovers everywhere, thank you for this New Year's Eve sports section of the Chronicle, which had two references to fruit, including Houston Cougar's victory of Florida State in the Peach Bowl, and "Ole Miss recalls sour Peach" (Page C6).
But for sheer virtuosity, there is no improving on "Whitewash courtesy of extra-strength Tide" (Page C3) about Alabama's victory over Michigan State in the Cotton Bowl. The author connected the shutout, the victorious team's name and the name of the bowl in a pun trifecta, literally tying all the threads together.
Pun intended.
Pete Smith, Cypress
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/letters/article/Wednesday-letters-Stereotypes-wealth-puns-6738878.php
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