http://www.statenews.com I’ve lost my iPod and my cell phone before. It wasn’t pretty. But worse, I think, was losing both of my hands. en-us Foundry4 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:59:49 -0500 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:52:03 -0400 webmaster@statenews.com http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15487/view did you really lose your hands, or you are just trying to make a point? Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:58:12 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15487/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15492/view clearly he lost his hands…poor guy! Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:19:14 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15492/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15495/view I’m sorry, the sarcasm or satire was lost on me. What’s the point? Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:04:13 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15495/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15500/view Poor guy. I think he really lost his hands… Cause he obviously wrote this article with his feet :-p Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:05:51 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15500/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15502/view I think this was either a case of a really bad headline, or a really sideways point. He’s got a point, though. It’s hard to complain about not having a cell phone to someone who needs to eat with hooks. Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:32:11 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15502/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15515/view hahah, great article! satire at its best, relentless! Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:11:08 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15515/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15521/view I understand the satire, and I understand the point, but this is a very insulting column. Not because of the argument that the author weakly makes, but because he is not physically disabled yet uses the premise of disability to serve his own views/agenda and to make jokes (Fredrik laughed). “It’s hard to complain about not having a cell phone to someone who needs to eat with hooks.” Yes, Edward, and it’s hard to complain about not having hands to someone without legs. And it’s hard to complain about not having legs to someone who had his entire family murdered in front of him. Are you and Mr. Winter the arbiters of what is and is not appropriate to complain about? Where is the threshold? Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:47:20 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15521/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15522/view Another question: Does the fact that I’ve been in a wheelchair most of my life absolve me from concerns of genocide in different parts of the world? Surely living with non-functioning legs is more difficult than living without hands. The author’s point could have (and should have) been made differently. Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:53:31 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15522/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15525/view I wasn’t impressed with this article. Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:22:19 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15525/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15526/view Bejaysus folks. Can’t you ever be happy? Everyone on this board bitches and moans when columnists write asinine columns about cell phones and ipods. This guy tries to point out that same asininity (yes, I made up that word,) and you bitch and moan about that, too! Good god folks. whattaya want? Maybe you’ll should come wake and bake with me. It might chill you all out. Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:27:26 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15526/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15540/view Dear Drew Robert Winter, I have a column crush on you. Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:23:06 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15540/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15543/view “Are you and Mr. Winter the arbiters of what is and is not appropriate to complain about? Where is the threshold?” Er, I wasn’t saying anything about what is or is not appropriate to complain about at all. Nice attitude you got there. Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:32:30 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15543/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15547/view Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:11:57 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15547/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15548/view “I wasn’t saying anything about what is or is not appropriate to complain about at all.” “It’s hard to complain about not having a cell phone to someone who needs to eat with hooks.” The poster’s view may have been extreme, but not wrong. Why do you always try to condescendingly insult people who disagree with you? Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:15:33 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15548/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15549/view Sorry, what I should have said is “The poster’s view may have been extreme, but your reply isn’t really accurate.” At least based on my reading of this page. Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:25:41 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15549/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15593/view This is no doubt a pretty stupid and pointless column. Seriously, it had nothing to do with genocide. I agree with the headline. But the rest of the article mentions genocide only once. But then again, that’s not Drew’s fault. He didn’t make the headline. SN, get a new copy editor, the headline should have read: “Personal needs trump awareness of plight of people with disabilities in U.S. minds.” Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:32:48 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15593/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15603/view “I wasn’t saying anything about what is or is not appropriate to complain about at all.” “It’s hard to complain about not having a cell phone to someone who needs to eat with hooks.” ‘The poster’s view may have been extreme, but not wrong.’ No, Benjy, it was wrong. See, if I was talking about whether it was appropriate to complain, and acting as an arbiter of morals and ethics, the sentence would have read something like “Only a really insensitive jerkfaced toad-fucking moron would have the infernal temerity to complain about not having a cell phone to someone who, having hooks for hands, would have a hard time using a cell phone in the first place. Such a person should be fed to space maggots.” Did I say any such thing? No, I didn’t. I just stated what should be obvious to anyone with anything approaching a sense of decency: it’s hard to complain about not having an convenience to someone who clearly suffers a severe inconvenience. Like whining about not getting dessert to some kid who is genuinely starving, for example. ‘Why do you always try to condescendingly insult people who disagree with you?’ That’s not true, either. I don’t “always” condescendingly insult people I disagree with. I only mock idiots who deserve to be mocked, liars pushing a hidden agenda, or the latest sock puppet being utilized by some clown who doesn’t have the decency to sign anything approaching his real name. That said, I can count the number of decent – which is to say even-tempered and intelligent – disagreements I’ve had with people on this forum on one hand and have fingers and a thumb left over. Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:44:43 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15603/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15720/view This article (while making a point) is in extremely poor taste. There are any number of people out there that are confronted with any number of issues to deal in their lives. The columnist could easily have spoken with any one of them and reflected on their stories. Instead of talking about Arthur Ray Jr. or any other person that is confronted with terrible circumstances the author decided to be lazy and make up as trite a story as can be found. Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:32:14 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15720/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15768/view It will never cease to amuse and frustrate me how many people will continually post on every article ever single thing wrong with it and not even acknowledge the point of it or the truth in it. YET!!! They never get up and write one for themselves. Why do you bother to read something if you aren’t even going to give it any critical thought at all? Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:59:51 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15768/view http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15807/view seriously drew, i know you personally and i would never consider you a funny guy yet you keep trying to make your poor points with humor and fail miserably. try doing some research (that isn’t one-sided, which you also seem to favor) to actually make a point in your columns. all you do is poorly attempt satire and bitch and moan a lot. oh yeah and i think this is the first thing you’ve ever written that doesn’t have at least one line about animal cruelty. Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:52:03 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/15807/view