America vs. Mirror

I am an American. As an American, I feel I have a right to be heard, and what needs to be said is that you run a disgusting anti-American rag.

Your frivolous sucker-punches and cowardly cheap shots connect only because we are busy being the bigger and better person looking off into a broader and brighter direction. And when you whiny hipsters muster up the balls to swing on us, it comes in the form of sloppy gossip and girly rhetoric clad in thick black plastic rimmed glasses and t-shirts 10 years too small.

Every Thursday, there is a new babaghanouj-burdened insult oozing out of your crocodile smiles and staining the purple argyle sweater vests that vacuum-seal your hairless chests.

You bike-riding vegans think your tree-hugging lifestyles and recycling ideals are the next best thing to being commies, but in reality, it sucks worse than your pizza.

Smoking pot and doing yoga in the Plateau doesn’t make you better than us, it just means you’re more flexible when it comes to dancing at Tam-tams with your tits out.

But enough about your collective deficiencies and outer appearances. When it comes to your publication, let me give you a tip; nobody cares about Jimmy Buffett. So naturally, writing an editorial piece about his fans was a fantastic decision. What next? An article on the brands of deodorant liberal women don’t use on their hairy armpits?

The Rant Line™ is another source of your journalistic gold. According to your very own, Canadians eat condoms, have sex with sea sponges and wax lyrical about people texting at shows, with nothing about the show itself. If I decided to go two weeks without washing my hair and hand-painted my Converse All Stars, I wouldn’t know what show to start the new me at. A weekly show review would help, and it would provide me an essential source to continue my depraved research of the anti-American-you.

Take a long hard look at the ugly guy wearing American Apparel in the Mirror, and think about the Fear and Loathing festival the next time you hunch over a Starbucks latte waiting for a chance to hit us when we’re not paying attention because we’re too busy laughing at the empty Tim Hortons next door.

>>Captain America

Grow your own

[Re: “Feeding the ethical omnivore,” News, Aug. 28] This article was very informative. Eating locally has undeniable benefits. But besides buying locally grown food, one can also grow food on a small scale in one’s own backyard.

A number of Montrealers grow red and green peppers, zucchini, carrots, eggplants etc. in their own backyards or gardens for four or five months of the year. Many people also have apple, pear, cherry and other fruit trees in their gardens—which is great.

Not to forget many people who hydroponically grow tomatoes, thyme etc. indoors. Achieving partial culinary self-sufficiency by growing one’s own food is great for the environment and guarantees food freshness. This option too must be promoted.

>>Manish Patwari

Epicurus, Hume, Dirlik

[Re: “Evil is not God’s fault,” Letters, Sept. 4] Exhibiting the characteristic intolerance and irrationality of fanatical fundamentalists, John Hill not only denounces the “evil of homosexuality” but predictably resorts to the silly there-must-be-a-creator argument. “The reality of God’s existence is so obvious when one realizes that the universe could not have created itself,” he proclaims. Actually, what is “so obvious” is the intellectual dishonesty of creationists who insist that everything needs a creator—except their fictional God.

Hill also parrots the tediously familiar line that “Evil occurs when man uses his free will to disobey the Laws of God.” Conveniently ignored is that if God gave man free will, then he cannot abdicate responsibility for the outcome, be it good or evil. And Hill saying God gave 10 Commandments but it’s our fault for disobeying them is like parents who watch while their son slaughters his sibling and then justify their criminal inaction by protesting that they gave their children clear instructions to be good—and the children chose not to. That Believers actually expect rational people to buy such perverted thinking defies logic.

Finally, Hill evades the fundamental question that is at the heart of the problem of evil: his hypothetical God cannot be both omnipotent and compassionate.

If all-powerful, then why would he allow the unspeakable suffering of innocents occurring daily? And if compassionate but unable to prevent such evil, then he is certainly not all-powerful. Callous tyrant or compassionate but helpless, this alleged creator surely remains unworthy of worship.

But hey, whatever turns you on.

>>John Dirlik

Mandate questioned

[Re: “Money Shot,” Cover image, Sept. 11] Mirror supposes to be a media for cumminication or playboy magasine. .

>>Anonymous

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