I don’t quite understand this, but I’m told that many websurfers don’t use RSS aggregators for their daily web browsing, and therefore said surfers aren’t immediately notified of new articles appearing on various sites.
An interesting side effect of this is that, because of the absence of notifications, there is sometimes a significant lag time between when a post is published and when all the comments flow in. In some cases, this lag can be weeks or months.
Because of this lag, I want to use this post to summarize some of the interesting comments to Rightfully So articles from 2006. These are insightful, lucid, cogent discourses on the topics, but, you readers might not have seen them when they were initially posted, so think of this as Talk Soup for Rightfully So.
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In April 2006, the article “The Solution to Immigration Problems,” by RC, reader Sara says:
You talk about “illegal aliens” as if they are some unwanted pest, a cockroach in your kitchen. Have you ever stopped and thought about why they might have moved here to begin with, how bad it can be in the country they came from to begin with? And if you haven’t noticed, these “illegal aliens” are already doing the jobs that no one else wants, and getting underpaid for, working the fields and cleaning as janitors. Before you want to boss someone around to clean for you, take respect in what you have and clean your own damned house.
Thank you, Sara, for setting us all straight. All this time I thought illegal aliens in fact were unwanted pests, diluting our social services, depressing our wages, and generally being a burden with not so much as a thank you or an acknowledgment of the greatness of our land. Misappropriating my tax dollars, filling our emergency rooms, crowding our schools, hijacking my child’s future and then spitting in my face… this is OK according to Sara, because things are “bad” where they came from. Well, I’m glad that’s settled. I guess five wrongs do make a right.
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From February 2006, another article by RC (is there a trend here?) entitled “Budweiser is Brainwashing Our Children,” reader Elaine Kellerman took exception to Larry Crankypants, quoted in the article as saying, “If TV can’t be trusted to raise our kids, who can?”
Ms Kellerman says:
Good Grief do people have nothing better to do. For one thing I love the comment “if t.v. can’t be trusted to raise our kids, who can.” Obviously this is one of those multitude of people that don’t want to be bothered by raising his children and want t.v.to do it as long as he can control the t.v. T.V. isn’t suppose to “raise kids” the parents are. I have seen this commercial and actually have it on my computer. I viewed it more as the older sector of society helping the younger achieve what they want in life and want to become. I suppose if you view life as never having the responsibility of raising children and having such responsibility passed off to a entertainment device then you would not view it in such a way. I am wondering how he views all the ignorant commercials to “improve your love life” and has the idiot with a big smile on his face with the voice talking about how he is “living large.” I would imagine if he is having t.v. raise his children then we will someday have grownups running around with his last name with a lot more problems than could be obtained from watching two grown horses push a wagon for a little one. He also needs to watch the WHOLE commercial as it shows the little colt looking at a picture of the Budweiser team, obviously wanting to be like them. People such as this guy sicken me. They want things their way or no way. It is people such as him that want “In God we Trust took away”, no matter how others feel. It offends him and that’s all that matters. Tell him there is a way to keep his children from watching this, turn the t.v. off and spend time with your kids. With all the scantily clad women as the cheerleaders I’m sure he don’t want his kids to think they are the norm. If so they will have troubled marriages. Besides it just almost makes it look like women have a subserviant role in life. Well, in retrospect the whole game makes it appear as though winning is everything and that can’t be a good role model. This guy needs to just keep quiet. I’m sure it would be best if he didn’t say anything and let people wonder about his IQ instead of opening it and letting people know how really low it is.
I’m trying to think of a snarky comment to inject here, but words fail me. Kudos to you, Ms Kellerman.
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O dear readers, please keep the comments coming! Responses like these make our writing worthwhile. I am inspired to write more. RC, we need more of your Rightfully So wit. Please help.
Finally, I will leave you with this, from reader Nic, in the article “Your Computer Seems Not To Be Running Windows System”:
I can’t believe this site isn’t more popular, these articles are hilarious.