Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,

Mission accomplished. In the eyes of jihadists, America is again afraid.

Dear Editor,

If we now try to define the root of the current economic problems, we need to go back to its genius. The nub of the problem happened when Americans took a cocktail of debt with a chaser of pathological optimism, and many got drunk on both. Awash in credit offers they bought homes, cars, and lots of other stuff they couldn’t afford or need, and hoped for a best-case scenario, in which their home values and rising salaries would take care of it. We could never sustain a strong economy on over 70 percent consumer spending!

Dear Editor,

“Sooner or later, there comes a point in a man’s life when he’s gotta face some facts, and one fact I gotta face is that whatever it is that women like, I ain’t got it.” — “Marty” by Paddy Chayefsky

For me, women and political parties: Over the last four decades, I’ve really tried with a couple of each, and whatever it is that they like, I ain’t got it.

Bruce Benson
President’s Office
University of Colorado

Dear Bruce,

As you probably know, state Sen. Peter Groff asked, and was publicly asking, CU-Boulder’s virtually all-Anglo power structure to hold up hiring a replacement for Coach Barnett, when CU hired Dan Hawkins as coach.