Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 1359 Editor's Choice: 75
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Bionic Woman works for Dick Cheney now
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's why I stopped watching. They concocted the perfect scenario that everyone working for Dick Cheney prays for (or should I say preys for?): the terrorist organization that's going to kill thousands of people in the next fifteen minutes unless the CEO of Blackwater oops I mean Berkut can torture out of him the location of the next attack.
And of course since this is a pro-Cheney set up, the bad guy caves quickly and neatly under torture and thousands of lives are immediately and undoubtedly saved.
PEOPLE WHO WRITE BIONIC WOMEN: only Dick Cheney's staff and his most strident supporters on the Internet are going to be able to watch scenes like that without feeling politically manipulated and hating you and your stinking show for it.
I don't care how much black eyeshadow she wears or how many times she spouts the word "objectified" -- this show is blatant propaganda for the neocon vision of the world.
The reason why Alias was such a good show was that nobody was completely earnest. Everyone had game and everyone was suspect at one time or another.
People who watched Alias could root for national security without feeling politically manipulated or abused in the process.
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AnnieW, an answer to your question
[Read the article: The burning question]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]By the way, who the Hell is going to pay to f**king weed a national forest? Huh?
The Mexican drug cartels who grow pot there, most likely. They've probably already been weeding our national forests when they prepare the land for planting pot.
But we can't talk about them, since they don't exist in this election, because the consequences of the failing War on Drugs embarrass and divide both parties.
The Mexican Drug War isn't spinning out of control. The Mexican government didn't have to retire their whole drug police force and replace them by the army because the police were too corrupt. Soldiers from said army are not now facing trial for torturing and raping civilians in northern Mexico while doing drug enforcement work.
And the Mexican cartels aren't turning large tracts of land in California national forests into marijuana plantations. That's not happening either.
None of that is happening. If it were happening, it might become an issue in the election. Since it's not happening, then nobody has to think about it at all.
I do know, as do many Salon readers, that it is hard as hell to set fresh juicy marijuana flowers on fire. And fire season happens to coincide with the outdoor marijuana harvest season, when the flowers should be at their juiciest and most fire-resistant.
So maybe those vast illegal Mexican pot plantations in our national forests that don't exist in this election are helping to combat fires, I don't know.
Since we can't really expect fact-based reporting on this subject right now, because all reporting on marijuana has to fulfill the primary objective of making children stay away from it, perhaps we'll never know.
Just remember this: There are people already who are weeding California national forests. They carry guns and don't speak English, so stay away from them if you happen to spot evidence of their labor.
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Galael that thought crossed my mind too
[Read the article: My husband is groping my sister]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I didn't see her complain about how much he drank. I don't think there's enough information here to determine whether alcohol is the problem or the excuse.
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No real news today, eh?
[Read the article: Linguists: "Moist" makes women cringe]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The words that bother me are torture, rape, war, segregation, separatism and overincarceration.
"Moist" doesn't bother me, but "dry" bothers me, because it implies a drought, and drought is about the scariest word of all.
Moist is a good word because it sounds like what it means.
Although I must confess there was a brief period when I didn't like it at all. That was when we discovered toxic mold behind the fridge.
I got over my aversion to "moist" when we had the damage fixed. Then I discovered another word I can't stand: "drywaller."
As in "The drywaller hammered a nail into an electrical wire and shorted out the whole kitchen, but refuses to tear down the drywall he just put up so an electrician can look underneath, because he insists he didn't touch any wires and the electrical problem was really caused by something else in another room that's not even on the same circuit."
When I hear the word "drywaller," I feel like screaming "Tear down the wall," and I'm not thinking about Pink Floyd.
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If you're easily grossed out by moisture
[Read the article: Linguists: "Moist" makes women cringe]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Do not watch the World Series in HD. You can see every little thing that comes out of those boys' mouths, or tries to come out but gets sucked back in.
You can tell whether their sputum diffuses into a fine spray or travels as a single undulating projectile, perhaps even landing on the shirt sleeve the batter is about to use to wipe his sweaty face.
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Clinton-Edwards works for me
[Read the article: Report: Obama says no to Clinton-Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Despite her vote on the war etc, I think she can point our foreign policy back towards diplomacy. She knows all these world leaders already. And she remembers what diplomacy used to look like, back when we used to do it.
Despite his antiwar stance, Obama doesn't seem very diplomatically inclined. His stance on Pakistan was muy macho but I didn't get the feeling that he knew what else to do with Musharraf other than put on some macho public display.
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The chances for a less reactionary America are not looking good from here
[Read the article: Is a new conservatism possible?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gary, you just edited the War on Drugs out of American political history. Do you honestly a think a country where something as socially and politically transformative as the War on Drugs can be casually edited out of political history can change and become less reactionary? The omens are not looking good, sorry.