Manly Michael Manley's Manly Mail

Hey Folks,

I LOVE the psychos who write letters to the Dispatch editor. I LOVE the Dispatch!! They're psycho, too!!

Throughout my entire life they have been printing letters like Michael Manley's (second below), as if they represented the sage wisdom of sane philosophers.

I've always wondered how many of these nuts actually are "out there" in the Columbus cow pasture. Do they represent a considerable percentage of the community? Or does the Dispatch print them disproportionately as a professional courtesy?

They don't usually print my wise-assed responses. Hence, I publish it here.

- Uke Man

To the Editor,

Poor Michael Manley sounded really upset in his recent letter! Maybe Taft and DeWine put extra fluoride in his tap water. Those weenies!

Saints preserve him from the nefarious, socialistic Democrats. They’re the kind who would eat up all the saltines in our Civil Defense bomb shelters, blame the disappearance on rats, and then buy replacement crackers with Michael’s own hard-earned money – some of which they’d surely stuff down the rat holes just for fun. Those gutless wonders!

But thank God for folks like Michael who produce something, folks who “make” rather than “take” and pay taxes so that, for example, unionized postal workers can put waste in their mailboxes.

For that and other reasons, I’ll bet Michael is really popular with the folks at work where – and I’m just guessing – he powers a number of turbines with the steam coming out of his ears.

Yours - Tom Harker



DeWine undeserving of ‘Dispatch’ praise
Tuesday, January 16, 2007


I respond to the Jan. 4 Dispatch editorial "Departing DeWine." As with former Gov. Bob Taft, The Dispatch portrayed outgoing Sen. Mike DeWine as a really good guy, well-intentioned, a pragmatist and a moderate. Every liberal loves miniliberals. DeWine is a spineless weenie, absolutely for nothing, other than making himself a "good guy" for all the poor and underprivileged of the world.

Hey Dispatch and DeWine apologists, the money these gutless wonders pour down rathole after rathole does not come from government. It comes from those like me who actually produce something and actually work and support our families and our communities.

Now Ohio has genuine socialists all around, Taft and DeWine being Republican amateurs, with Democrats Gov. Ted Strickland, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown and U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich. They can continue to chase the long-gone labor force and heavy manufacturing factories that lost all viability in the ’50s and ’60s. Of course they still have local, state and federal unions that produce nothing but waste.

The division of those who take and those who make will continue to widen.

I’m certain The Dispatch noticed, although attempted to hide, the nation’s unemployment rate went down again while Ohio’s went up again. Keep on wasting education dollars and chasing closed factories.

Compliments to DeWine, Taft, Republican U.S. Sen. George V. Voinovich, Democratic state Rep. Ted Celeste, et al.

MICHAEL MANLEY
Columbus