Dear
people, Enjoyed your Chicken-Fried News article titled “Weed control” (Dec. 29,
2010, Oklahoma Gazette).
The
myth of weed control at its core was perpetuated by racism with a healthy dose
of ignorance. The price of making paper, cups, diapers and disposable plastic
items is fueling the degradation of a sustainable consumer-oriented system.
Trees and oil are too valuable.
Hemp
is a job-producing, sustainable alternative to our current disposable
lifestyles. We have been blessed with abundant resources. It’s time to escape
the miasma of euphemisms used to perpetuate the lies!
—Tom
Walker
Oklahoma
City
I
didn’t make it past the first quaint story (“Cheeky citation”) in the
Chicken-Fried News section of the Dec. 22, 2010, issue of Oklahoma Gazette. The conservative,
fetus-protecting, reraping (via vaginal ultrasound) state of Oklahoma was just
thrilled to have the flop crime film “The Killer Inside Me” filmed in Guthrie.
No surprise there: Conservatives have the dirtiest Web pages and so forth.
Bur
then, for CFN to carry on about Jessica Alba’s asswhipping by Casey Affleck in
this movie — I threw this publication in the trash where it belonged. The last
two paragraphs fairly dripped with saliva and I know not what. It belonged in
Hustler, not a progressive (I thought) publication like the Gazette.
With
the rate of domestic violence we have in this state, a lascivious article like
this, which celebrates violence against women, is just wrong. I don’t care how
hip you people are or think you are.
—Kathryn
Johnston
Oklahoma
City
This article appears in Jan 5-11, 2011.