Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

The Left begins to eat itself, and I'm loving it. Think of all the able-bodied, white, heterosexual males in academia, people like Peter Singer, Brian Leiter, and Richard Dawkins. They may call themselves leftists, but it's not good enough. They have the wrong bodies and desires. They will be eaten. And then the mob will move on to able-bodied, white heterosexual females, for they, too, are oppressors (many times over). And then the mob will move on to the next group. Get your popcorn ready; it's going to be quite a show.

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To the Editor:

Re “Candidates Stick to Script, if Not the Truth” (front page, Nov. 8):

When candidates reject known truths as lies, and call their lies truth, our public discourse becomes Orwellian indeed. Bravo to The Times for calling these people out. Our precious democracy is being eroded by their tactics.

Unfortunately, many voters are easily persuaded if verifiable lies are repeated without repudiation. The critical question is, How could we trust a candidate who blatantly lies as a campaigner to be honest with the people if elected president and commander in chief?

JOHN W. MAY

Pittsford, N.Y.

Note from KBJ: If you like your insurance, you can keep it.

I have a better idea: Shut down the Missouri football program. (If that's not feasible, then get these "student-athletes" some remedial-writing instruction.)

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To the editor:

Laurie Mazur has written a mixed message on population growth. ("China drops its 'one-child' policy, now let's ban the 'population bomb,'" Op-Ed, Nov. 3)

She claims incorrectly that Paul Ehrlich was wrong in 1968 when he wrote about the “population bomb” and says population growth must slow. She points to the cruel and inhumane “one-child” policy in China as a failure, but for the Chinese, they got their rate of population increase below the rate of their economic growth. As the result, China is now a world power.

Ehrlich was wrong only in his timing. Most of his prognostications have come true and then some.

Overpopulation has led to mass famine in the Sahel and elsewhere in Africa. The loss of arable land has led to political instability, wars and mass migrations. The United States has an influx of people from South and Central America, and Europe has hordes coming from Africa and Asia. 

Her prescription for more education to slow growth has worked where secular education is available to the masses. But every fundamentalist religion (you name it) opposes family planning, and their acolytes control many parts of the world.

It is not the facts of Erlich's “bomb” that are wrong; rather, it is the unwillingness of so many to acknowledge the limitations of Mother Earth.

Emil Lawton, Sherman Oaks

Note from KBJ: Does this mean that if you predict that X will happen, you can never be proved wrong, because X might happen eventually? I hereby predict that a dog will be elected president.

This man, who claims to be a philosopher, makes no mention of the politicization of scientists. Most of the people who call themselves climate scientists are in fact political hacks (ideologues) whose aim is to control a recalcitrant population. (Some, of course, are in it for the money.)

Addendum: In this essay, the author appears to be saddened that leftists no longer control the flow of information. Thank God for the Internet! The cost of duping (and thereby controlling) the people has gone up.