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Paper urged to limit length of California letter-writer’s ‘ranting’
Thank you for your balanced coverage of issues from all sides of the political spectrum.
I’m an independent, with strong conservative leanings, but I read the articles by liberals, also, so as to better inform myself of the different sides of the issues.
Although it pains me to read his frequent letters to the editor, I applaud you for including Jake Pickering’s ranting against conservatives, from his home in Arcata, California.
Every other sentence or so contains some repulsive words describing a consevative. It was once said that those people who cuss a lot, don’t have much of a vocabulary.
Although he isn’t cussing, I would include Mr. Pickering in that category. I’m happy that he’s at home in California and not here in Western North Carolina!
As a non-psychologist or psychiatrist, I won’t make any diagnoses for Mr. Pickering, other than to say that he seems to be a very angry person.
That’s too bad for him, as to wake up every day angry about something, in this case, conservatism, will harm his general health and very possibly shorten his life.
May I make one suggestion to The Asheville Daily Planet?
You say that you publish letters to the editor, preferably less than 150 words in length. I counted less than half of his most recent letter’s words... and my best guess is that it exceeded 350 words! I’m not sure that he can rant for less than 150 words, but you might consider not publishing his letters that don’t meet your length criteria.
Thank you for considering my comments.
DENNIS KABASAN, M.D.
Fletcher
Turn off Fox TV, talk radio,‘Brainless Trumptards’ told
Don’t be just another right-wing racist Republikkkan Trumptard who has been completely brainwashed by pro-Putin, anti-choice Fox “News†and by listening to partisan GOP hate radio decade-after-decade of your bungled, backasswards Baby Boomer life.
Try reading a book, or at least using your brain!
Clueless “cancel culture†conservatives angrily insist that anyone who dislikes their deranged, demonic crackpot cult leader Donald Trump should be silenced and censored, and for some inexplicable reason Republicans almost always clumsily attempt to mislabel Democrats as “Marxist,†when it’s the GOP’s greedy old pervert Trump who clearly loves repressive communist regimes.
The Rapepublican Party’s delusional, defeated former Putin puppet president is notorious for waxing poetically about how enthralled (and apparently romantically involved) he was with North Korean communist monarch Kim Jong-un.
That’s right, traitor Trump has a moronic man crush on the very same Maoist monster Kim Jong-un who continually threatens to wipe the Hawaiian Islands and the West Coast off the map with nuclear weapons!
Will the Russian-controlled Republican Party support that insanity too?
Speaking of nukes and numbskulls, then there’s dimwitted Donald Trump’s true love KGB Count Dracula Vlad “the Impaler†Putin, traitor Trump’s one-and-only long-term Leningrad lover.
These two lying losers — Trump & Putin — are perfect for each other! Maybe those two pathetic peas-in-a-pod can bunk together in a prison cell, after Vladimir Putin is put on trial for war crimes and genocide in Ukraine and Donald Trump is tried for treason and pandemicide by way of malign neglect during the COVID-19 catastrophe that has taken the lives of over 1 million Americans.
Donald Trump is a disgrace. Lock him up!
JAKE PICKERING
Arcata, Calif.
1st black ‘woman’ on high court? No, she’s ‘non-gender’
In the Bill Press (April 13-26) column (in the Daily Planet), “Supreme Court hearing: Bring on the clowns!†Bill Press erroneously identified Supreme Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as “the first African-American woman ever to serve on the nation’s highest court.â€
She is the first African-American non-gender to serve.
After graduation from Harvard University and Harvard Law School, this “educated†African-American cannot give the definition of a “woman.â€
WILLIAM SYKES
Saluda
Bike-riding to hinder traffic as political statement? Stop!
EDITOR’S NOTE: Following is an email — sent to Mike Sule recently — that was submitted for publication in the Daily Planet by its author, Doug Brown, then a candidate for a seat on Asheville City Council. Brown stated in a message to the newspaper that “it is an email I wrote to Mike Sule of Asheville on Bikes. It is a response to the AOB tactics to push their road diet agenda.â€
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I apologize for late response to Asheville On Bikes for the candidate survey. I had intended to submit it Tuesday (May 10) before the AOB meeting that evening with the candidates.
The survey moved to the B list because of an interesting occurrence that morning.
I had an appointment downtown. As usual I got on my bike; downtown is less than two miles from where I live. I love riding wherever I can to get from A to B on my bike — admittedly that distance is usually less than 3 miles one way, but bikes are a great way to go: outside, fresh air, exercise, and just about as fast within that 3-mile range.
That morning I turned onto a main residential street and was stuck behind a car going maybe 10 mph.
I was in a hurry and scooted around the car only to find three bicyclers in riding gear and first-rate road bikes staggered so that the driver could not get by.
I hustled passed all three (in my business pants, leather shoes and collared shirt) and asked the front rider, “Why don’t you move over so the car can get by?†His response was, “I’m trying†— and as I kept going, I believe he said, “but I don’t have a bike lane.â€
Mike, it was the same bike antics I witnessed when I drove to the DOT meeting on Merrimon Avenue a month or two ago.
I was driving then, but traffic was slowed because perhaps six or so bikers in vests and flashing red taillights were in double formation taking the whole lane with the obvious intent to hinder traffic.
My point is, I was taught when I learned to drive to “share the road;†to be considerate of bike-riders. I believe there is a mutual respect. That respect is lost when riders use their bikes to make a political statement.
Whether it is your organization or not, when bike-riders make riding a bike a political statement, then I’m out.
Those traffic-hindering tactics of bike riders only anger motorists.
That makes it more dangerous for me to ride as a biker when I do my A to B riding.
I hope you don’t promote this kind of political grandstanding with your bike group.
Let’s do what we can to unite our city.
I’m for solutions that are practical, not political.
DOUG BROWN
Asheville
Sinatra died 24 years ago, not 40 years, as paper misstated
Much thanks for publishing my letter and for the extra Editor’s Note.
By the way, Frank’s (Sinatra) been gone 24 years, not 40.
Thanks, again, and have a great day!
HERB STARK
Mooresville
Man pushed, punched by alleged ‘anti-abortion thug’
I got pushed into Biltmore Avenue three times and punched in the head, shattering my bifocals, by an anti-abortion thug, while picketing for city abortion funding.
Many witnesses (were) at the Pack Square restaurants.
Think I should write a letter about it?
I was also defended by two black guys, acting independently... the second one with a stun gun.
That was today (May 12) about 5:40 p.m.
ALAN DITMORE
Leicester
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