Letters to the Editor
Villemar
Published Letters: 268
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Hmmm....
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Re: Gore, it's so uncharacteristic of RB to print such a blatant, ridiculous RNC talking point!
Oh well, I forgive him this time. 99.9% funny is still a damn good batting average.
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Strangly Hypnotized!
[Read the article: Rabbit Bites: Spidermania]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hmmm....not the most highbrow stuff but for some reason I'm addicted to these guys...love 'em!
"I can write on me BLOG!!!"
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Pretentious, Annoying Swill
[Read the article: Music Video: "Top Ranking," Blonde Redhead]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There was a time when I'd listen to, say, one of those NPR music reviews where I'd hear some obscure caterwauling singer from Eritrea or somewhere being lauded as a visionary and a pioneer; and my conscious mind would willfully suspend my disbelief because, well, the reviewer was from NPR, so he must know more than I, right?
I'm not falling for it anymore.
This video sucks.
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Remove the 60's references and you have a good article.
[Read the article: Al's big day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ugh, I wanted to forward some article about Live Earth to my friends that didn't contain the usual mainsteam media knee-jerk snarkiness (and silly attempts to "present both sides") and was hoping Salon would come to the rescue, but the "Flower Powewr" shit killed it for me right there. Please, will you boomers go away? The generation that has to deal with these issues addressed at this concert were born after that nonsense. As a fairly young liberal I'm sick and tired of that '60's albatross that's been stuck on me and my fellow young liberals' necks. I always get "tree-hugging hippy" -type epithets when I post on message boards and frankly I've had enough of it. Cintra Wilson just reinforced that crap once again.
Hmmm....maybe a better article can be found on Guardian Unlimited or something....
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Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater....
[Read the article: The artful seducer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Granted Mystery is easy to mock, especially with his black velvet Willy Wonka outfit and the insane ego inflation that one gets when one gets their own reality TV show.
But, he's on to something in the general sense. It took far too long to realize that life is not a John Hughes movie where nerdishly pining away for that special girl will get her in your arms eventually.
The simple fact is that for those of us who are not "naturals," we have been programmed by society to be the uber-nice guy. But in the real world that fails. Not to say you have to be an asshole. It just means you have to reframe certain preconceptions of what generates attraction in women - and these are often extremely counter-intuitive. It really has to do with projecting a sense of aloofness and confidence and charm. The thing is, many of these "seduction gurus" offer hundreds of lines or techniques to help guys project this image. Which is fine and dandy I suppose, but I always hated homework.
As I see it, cultivating this side of my personality is important. But you see, I had it within me all along. I didn't need a guru to teach me how to "act" this way, I just coaxed this part of my personality out of my shell. It was there all along.
This "movement" is still sort of in its infancy. The first "seduction guru" was this complete asshole named Ross Jeffries who taught guys how to use "NLP" or Neuro-Linguistic Programming to get women into bed. A real creepy guy. PT Anderson based the "Seduce and Destroy" character of Frank TJ Mackey on him. Mystery and his ilk are an absolute improvement. But we still have quite a ways to go.
And to get back to my general point, lets take all these gurus out of the picture. The concepts in a general sense still apply. Go back and watch the 1938 classic "It Happened One Night." See how Clark Gable "negs" the daylights out of spoiled and sheltered Claudette Colbert. Same rules apply then as in now.
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[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]huh?
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Why Republicans And Naderites Are Rooting For Hillary
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Republicans want her to run against because hatred towards Hillary is the only thing that can bring the fragmented GOP back together. Naderites want her to run because it fits into their "Republicrat" / "no difference between the two parties" memes.
Sorry to break this to both of them but it ain't gonna be her. Primary voters are smarter than that and already Obama is ahead in Iowa, NH and SC. Sorry, but the coronation is over.
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The Hillary Campaign
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Can you feel the Joementum????
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I'm Bullish on Tracy Morgan
[Read the article: "First Sunday"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah I'm bullish on Tracy Morgan, but as for Ice Cube...not so much. He's be the ultimate sellout, the former memeber of NWA doing crappy movies like Are We Home Yet or whatever that thing was called, with CGI squirrels. Please. But Tracy, I await nothing but hi-larity, in better vehicles than this one apparently is.
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Good Job Handing The 2008 Elections To The Republicans On A Silver Platter
[Read the article: Paris goes big for Hillary Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Smooth move geniuses. There is only one thing that can unite the most fractous GOP party in generations. Unite the corporatists, the social conservatives, the neocons, the libertarians, the classic conservatives all together as one: Voting against Hillary Rodham Clinton.
I stuck behind the Democratic Party unquestioningly these past eight years but if you jackasses are stupid enough to throw red meat to the idjits, then not only will I not vote and renounce my party affiliation; but when we lose in November I'll move to Europe and laugh my ass off as this once-great nation collapses into complete ruin. With no remorse or inkling of sympathy or despair.
Do what you want to do, I'm set either way.