Out-of-touch celeb
Seth Rogen’s view that the rise in crime on the West Coast and elsewhere is simply life in the big city is moronic (“Rogen heat for robbery ‘snobbery,’ ” Nov. 27).
Rogen is just another out-of-touch Hollywood elitist who has no regard for the average person. Rogen should stick to making crappy movies and leave the political commentary to adults.
Robert DiNardo
Farmingdale
Titan of the theater
Stephen Sondheim was the most prolific and the greatest of all Broadway composer-lyricists (“Swan song for legend Sondheim,” Nov. 27).
A titan of the American theater. From “West Side Story” to “Assassins.” His lyrics were more than just Broadway fodder but a thesis on the life and folly of the human condition. We will remember Stephen Sondheim always and forever. RIP.
Paul Bacon
Hallandale Beach, Fla.
Suozzi’s centrism
Moderates across the Empire State should be heartened by Rep. Tom Suozzi’s candidacy for governor of New York in the Democratic primary next June (“Suozzi in gov bid,” Nov 30).
Indeed, the former four-term Glen Cove mayor’s views align with my middle-of-the-road sensibilities. As a card-carrying Keynesian centrist who teaches the dismal science — both macroeconomics and microeconomics — I am greatly in favor of sinewy infrastructure revitalization to boost aggregate demand and generate jobs.
As a registered independent who bleeds the stars and stripes, I abhor the left-wing extremism that ritually denigrates the United States of America — “the last best hope of Earth.” And as an Italian-American, I deplore the wholesale demonization of Christopher Columbus by the Biden-Harris-Hochul cabal of pandering revisionists.
Those public officials who genuflect to the false gods of far-left extremism for political gain must be held to account at the polls.
Rosario A. Iaconis
Selden
Putin’s power
Who in their right mind thinks it’s a good idea that Central Europe be beholden to Vladimir Putin’s future Soviet Empire for its heat and power (“Joe ♥ Vlad?” PostOpinion, John Herbst, Dec. 1)?
Whether looking at it from a European Union or NATO standpoint (those viewpoints are often in conflict), this places the industrial heart of Europe at great risk. Someone has to be cashing in.
This decision has no good impact on the EU, NATO or the United States.
Don Mills
Manahawkin, NJ
Fetus reality
I’d like to remind Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and everyone else that all of us who are alive today are all former fetuses (“Court Abort Threat,” Dec. 2).
There’s no getting around this fact. And if the fetus isn’t alive, how is it that we are alive? And if the fetus isn’t human, how is it that we are human?
Joseph Passaretti
Dunedin, Fla.
Fauci’s a phony
Now we are told by Dr. Anthony Fauci that he is science; is there no end to his narcissistic view of himself (“Fauci’s ‘science’ fiction,” Nov. 30)?
Fauci has been wrong on more advice that he’s given than he’s been right. Giving one man more say then he deserves is beyond the pale.
Fauci has proven he is more addicted to seeing his face on television then he is on science.
Philip Vallone
Ossining