Letters to the Editor
JackSparx
Published Letters: 403 Editor's Choice: 16
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@Freddie
[Read the article: Mod about you]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...one of the things I love about it is how the plots of the shows were really original, often to the point of being almost meta. Like the episode where the just sat in a cave and looked at candles. (Uh, as far as I can remember.)"
I think you have confused Mod Squad with Kung Fu, Oh Grasshopper.
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Speaking of bobbing for boobs
[Read the article: Bobbing for boobs]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What's up with the new Salon advertisements for the dating agency, with the little live videos of women flashing cleavage? Sometimes there's three different women dancing around my screen pushing their boobs practically in Glenn Greenwald's cartoon face.
It's not dignified. And a bit off-message.
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Please don't say "fucking whore."
[Read the article: Thank you, Rush Limbaugh!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's not the obscenity, or the sexism. It's the redundancy.
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I disagree. I think. McCain was asking the general to compare.
[Read the article: McCain gets confused about al-Qaida again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not a fan of McCain, but I think he was making a comparison. It's too garbled to really tell, I suppose.
There have been little Shi'a and Sunni splinter militias, so he's saying "Is al-quaeda actually a threat, or no more a threat than one of those little shi'a outfits."
Doesn't that make more sense?
I'm a little concerned that people will fall into the Bush trap, and see the guy as dumber (or more senile) than he really is. Assume that McCain knows the difference between Muslim sects, or at least catch him in a more telling example than this one.
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Good for Biden.
[Read the article: The central front in the "war on terror"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But, did Biden ask his question before McCain? Than it would McCain's question more likely a comparison, and a riposte.
Biden: Al-Qaeda is bigger in Afghanistan than Iraq.
McCain: Al-Qaeda is a bigger threat in Iraq than other militant groups in Iraq.
Again, I'm not saying I agree with McCain. There is no doubt that Biden owns one of the sharpest foreign policy brains and one of the smoothest tongues on the planet.
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@paulpsd Good point, but
[Read the article: The central front in the "war on terror"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Given the discrepancy in funding and personnel for these two areas, admitting al Qaida is stronger in Afghanistan is relevant even with the (bogus) qualification by Crocker.
And apropos of that, kind of, I'll bet the administration "finds" Osama prior to the November election. The tactics of the Afghanistan War make little sense, unless the purpose was to draw out the War on Terror conflict to allow cover for Iraq.
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They're sexist, you're a racist, and God help us all.
[Read the article: My last word (for now) on sexism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Meanwhile in Iraq, 18 US soldiers dead since March 25th.
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@Ken Obama montage
[Read the article: My last word (for now) on sexism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There is a music video with some of the racist clips. But, a lot of the racism and race-baiting is in print (e.g. Walsh at Salon) so it doesn't have the visual impact. The elite readers are more racist than the TV-watchers.
I disagree with Ron that we're more tribal (and I know that philosophy doesn't matter). Clinton's loss is not going to mean that "women" have lost. Other women will run, and soon. If Obama had lost, it would not have meant that blacks had lost. Sexism isn't going to win, racism isn't going to win, not in the Democratic primary. That's important, and good.
Walsh's attempt to overemphasize sexism as the main explainer of Clinton's poor showing is counterproductive, not to mention dishonest. The saddest trope was Walsh blaming Clinton's decision not to apologize for her war vote on "a man." I'm still not sure that Walsh realizes how deeply sexist that charge is against Clinton, and all women. Not to mention men. Sure, Clinton has advisors, some of whom are men.
But the war vote was Clinton's mistake alone, a crucial mistake, and she needed to own it. If she had owned it, she would have performed better in her campaign, sexists or no sexists. People don't trust her, not because of men with ironing boards, but because she blames others when she is wrong, and doesn't accept the consequences of her actions. Walsh didn't understand that Clinton's lie about snipers hurt Clinton because it confirmed what people already felt about Clinton. In fact, Walsh wouldn't even admit that Clinton lied. Walsh lied instead, like a codependent lies to help an alcoholic. Now Walsh tries to blame others for Clinton's defeat, when the true fault lies within her candidate.
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Yeah, so
[Read the article: The urge to compete]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How's that lawsuit against your next-door neighbors going?
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Thank you, Joan Walsh, for your race-baiting
[Read the article: My last word (for now) on sexism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm serious. I think media savants like you did your share to get Obama the nomination. You made racism seem utterly ridiculous, foolish.
If I were to turn your words back on you: those sexists are just trying to toughen Clinton up for the general! Wasn't that your all purpose reply to the Clintons own race-baiting?
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Lincoln's service in the Black Hawk War
[Read the article: Hillary's slick willies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lincoln did join the Illinois state milita in the Black Hawk War, but he mocked his service continually. He saw no combat and referred to his time in the Wisconsin woods as a "bloody struggle with the mosquitos and charges upon wild onions."
In any case, the Black Hawk "War" was not a glorious moment for Americans, ending with a massacre of men, women, and children as they tried to surrender, hide, or swim the Mississippi. Lincoln was lucky to have missed it. Though, later as President, he signed a death warrant for a mass hanging of Sioux after their conflict in Minnesota.
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If I wrote a book I'd call it "Settling for Mr. Pretty Awful."
[Read the article: Coming to a theater near you: Dumb arguments]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]@Durianjoe and Kitchengirl. I wiped all my cookies and still get the dancing hotties. I rather doubt this computer has been traveling to porn sites. (I also get the Obituary Archive. I'm not sure if Salon wants me coming or going.) I think the hotties started after I joined the "whore" letter orgy in Broadsheet and Walsh.
Never again. I feel dirty.
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OT: ads
[Read the article: Coming to a theater near you: Dumb arguments]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Ads by Google are contextually relevant advertisements that appear beside related content on the page. The web publishers who display Ads by Google are part of the Google AdSense program, and the ads come from Google's base of AdWords advertisers."
So, the content of Broadsheet is related to United States Air Force.
Camille Paglia's content is related to Russian hotties.
Wow, that IS revealing...
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Do the Hutterites have a piece of that N.D. oil action?
[Read the article: North Dakota -- the next Saudi Arabia]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If they became super-rich we really could have a home grown Saudi empire.