Common bonds for Trump, Kremlin?
In Ann McFeatters' Sunday, Feb. 25 commentary on paying attention to the Russia investigation, she wrote this sentence: "The Kremlin is trying to spread chaos, fear and distrust of traditional institutions, especially the U.S. government and hatred of others who are a little different."
If you remove "the Kremlin" and replace it with "Donald Trump and the Republican Party," the sentence still rings true.
Marjorie Pasch, Red Bank
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We're forgetting South Broad pollution
I get kinda uncomfortable when the left and right pages in this paper agree on something.
Building a new ballpark, with the potential for a type of taxpayer financing, is uncomfortable, but putting it on Wheland Foundry/U.S. Pipe property is really spooky.
I do agree the property is unsightly. I also agree with doing something with the land. The problem is the totally unmentioned ground contamination there.
A few years ago, the city would not rebuild softball fields on 23rd Street because of ground contamination. Now a sculpture garden is there.
The Wheland Foundry site is far more contaminated than the 23rd Street property. Two polluting companies dumped anything and everything there for more than 100 years.
I suppose we were supposed to forget the pollution. I haven't.
I asked a friend who is a geologist, specializing in this area, how to clean it up. He said it would cost way too much to clean the ground; the way to fix it would be to cap it: six inches of asphalt on the 400 acres, 10 feet of fill dirt on top of that, and build a golf course or two.
Do not disturb the ground.
Mark Tyson
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Electric chairs vs. luxury jails
Long ago, a single person was put in the electric chair and gave his life because he killed one person.
Now you can kill 17 people and be sent to jail for life. They don't have to work at a job, worry about a place to live, and, they get some good food to eat for the rest of their life.
In the Old Testament in my Bible, God had Noah build an ark to save Noah and his family from the flood. The people were so bad that God let them drown in the flood, saving only Noah and his family. God has an answer to sin.
Now we innocent people are paying for the killer of 17 people to live in jail with no worries. The killer seems to have no regrets.
Looks like we need to discard the old electric chairs and build more luxury jails.
Mary Jones, East Ridge
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Social media ruining world
Welcome to 1984. Like most events that are cataclysmic, earth-shaking, revolutionary, we never saw it coming. It was sudden, unanticipated. Big Brother is not the government of any country; it's social media. It's ubiquitous, any country, anywhere. Like an onion, a most common worldwide food.
Social media has become the arbitrator of all quarrels, the decider. Every decision or action has unintended consequences.
Any social faux pas is bloviated, exaggerated, denigrated, obfuscated, deprecated, then humiliated, excoriated, eviscerated, expurgated and regurgitated until defecated. Makes me want to vomit.
I made PVC people for my business and have been threatened for my art, suggesting their positions as PVC people was a Hitler salute. For you too dumb to understand, PVC fittings only have certain defined angles.
Humor will be abolished as some poor schmuck will be offended. Oops, that's Yiddish. Probably anti-Semitic or pro-Israel. You decide.
Jim Howard