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Recently I had e-mailed Harry Reid about his ugly partisan attacks against the president, particularly in his ungenerous characterizations of the president using the focus-grouped, Democratic boilerplate "Dangerously incompetent." Here is my original e-mail. Following that is Reid's reply and then my response to his e-mail (and yes I know it's just a boilerplate letter; I don't think he's actually replying himself): Senator Reid: I see you today again used the same ungenerous and mean-spirited description of the president describing him with the focus-grouped "dangerously incompetent" boilerplate label all Democrats are reading off the same script in using. If Bush...

Much of our activism involves sending form email or snail protest letters to particular organizations. I wonder how effective form letters (like NewsMax's PriorityGrams) are, since they are all the same -- once the recipient gets one and recognizes the format, he can throw away the rest. Personalized notes seem better, because each one has to be read individually. But the downside here is that many of us are too busy to write a note each time we are mad about something. My solution is to create a computer program that would, given some keywords, automatically generate (infinitely many) letters...

<p>The holiday season is viewed as the happiest time of the year. It conjures visions of families gathering by a warm fireplace, sharing their love, opening presents, and feasting on turkeys and pigs.</p> <p>But for the millions of factory-farmed turkeys and pigs hauled to slaughter for thousands of miles in freezing weather, the holiday season signifies misery, despair and death. Their agonizing death journey follows a lifetime of caging, crowding, deprivation, drugging, mutilation and mandhandling.</p>