Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 45 Editor's Choice: 1
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Thank You Joan Walsh!
[Read the article: Making Colbert go away]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, we're all wrong. Because let me tell you, Noam Fucking Scheiber knows funny.
Stay strong, Heroes. These bear-coddling freedom haters are no match for our fighting spirit. They just weren't ready to sit down to a big, steaming plateful of seconds at the White House Correspondents' Dinner... Of Truth.
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My letter to Cohen
[Read the article: Colbert: Not just a flop, but "rude" and "a bully" too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mr. Cohen,
It's called the "White House Correspondents' Dinner." As in, the featured guests are "Correspondents." You know, newspeople?
Colbert's speech called THEM out, and rightfully so, for their egregious dereliction of duty these last six years. THAT is the power truth was spoken to. (Bush being present just adds to the funny.)
You say that to truly speak truth to power "you (take) the distinct chance that power (will) smite you, toss you into a dungeon or -- if you're at work -- take away your office."
Is your column - and the other whinefests like it - not a (lame attempt at a) smite-down?
It is completely unsurprising that a member of the press would be too thin-skinned and tone-deaf to get what Colbert was saying.
But then, you guys stopped being It-Getters long ago.
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Schadenfreude
[Read the article: Not such a grand old party]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is such an ugly wor...BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH hangonletmecatchmybreathHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
...word.
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Pull your keys out of your pocket.
[Read the article: Why we are really in Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now hold them up,jingle them, and repeat after me: "Hey! Electorate! Look! Shiny! Shock and awe!"
As I've been saying since 2002, you now have Karl Rove's entire rationale for the war in Iraq. Worked, too.
I'm not sure who should be more ashamed.
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She's a shit-stirrer! Duh!
[Read the article: Real inconvenient truths]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's why there's THIRTY-THREE PAGES of letters on her latest column. So stop asking Joan Walsh why she publishes this stuff. It's the intellectual equivalent of Combos.
You hate them, you know they're garbage, and if your roommate doesn't pass you that fucking bag, you will leap over the coffee table and pummel him unconscious just to get them.
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It seems like hate,
[Read the article: Jerry Falwell, "agent of intolerance," dead at 73]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...but I'm just quoting the man:
* “AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals”
* "It appears that America's anti-Biblical feminist movement is at last dying, thank God, and is possibly being replaced by a Christ-centered men's movement which may become the foundation for a desperately needed national spiritual awakening."
* "If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being."
* After the September 11 attacks Falwell said, “I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen."
* “Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions”
* “[Homosexuals are] brute beasts...part of a vile and satanic system [that] will be utterly annihilated, and there will be a celebration in heaven.”
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Simply quote the man - he does all the work.
[Read the article: The stone is cast]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]* “AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals”
* "It appears that America's anti-Biblical feminist movement is at last dying, thank God, and is possibly being replaced by a Christ-centered men's movement which may become the foundation for a desperately needed national spiritual awakening."
* "If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being."
* After the September 11 attacks Falwell said, “I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen."
* “Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions”
* “[Homosexuals are] brute beasts...part of a vile and satanic system [that] will be utterly annihilated, and there will be a celebration in heaven.”
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Good riddance.
[Read the article: Wolfowitz agrees to quit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't let the gold-plated door hit you in the ass on the way out.
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Hmmmm...
[Read the article: Gore in 2008?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What's the magic bullet to undo eight years of incompetence?
Progressive energy policy.
Hmmm.
Who knows something about that?
Who knows the levers of government?
Who could hit the ground running?
Who has a vision, as opposed to talking points?
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RE: Another Comparison
[Read the article: Finale wrap-up: "The Shield"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First off, can we just please have a moratorium on "The Wire Is Better" comments? Yes. We know. The Wire is better. Move along.
Forced to Register gets it exactly right. The Shield is very much like a James Ellroy book. You can't put it down, yet you feel dirty for enjoying it so much.
That's probably why The Shield makes The Sopranos look like The Waltons. (And I love the Sop's.)
What a kick-ass finale! You could actually end the show right there and it'd be perfect. Dutch is with Dani, Mackey and Acevedo are about to stir up a shitstorm that will take much longer than one season to resolve, and SHANE! Holy crap!
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Cheers for ATL.
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For an airport as busy as ATL to get through this article mostly unscathed says pretty good things about it, don't you think? Southerners joke "when you die, you still have to go through ATL," and most of us consider it a place to be tolerated, not loved but...it gets it done.
Also, I heart my home airport - SFO. It's clean, there's good food, easily accessible beer, and you can take BART to it.
Most Improved: EWR - Newark used to be the seventh level of hell. It's not so bad now.
Gone Downhill: BUR - Remember when Burbank was this cute, convenient little airport that was almost a pleasure to hang out in? Not any more. Yeesh. What a dump.
Want To Smoke? Raleigh! It's practically mandatory. Avoid if you're allergic.
I'm so sorry to hear about Key West. I used to love that airport. I guess it must have gotten busier. It wasn't built to handle much. (The "luggage carousel" that goes for about five feet used to crack me up. Probably much less funny if the place is crowded.)