your review of Batman and all the letters that followed, I know a lot of readers would like you to get out of the movie reviewing business, but I would not like that at all. I just find your reviews amazing. You might be right about this one. I liked the trailer and I like the cast, but I believe I'll have to go elsewhere to find an objective review. Whenever you say the cast or a character in a movie "seems to be" portraying something in a certain way, I can never really believe you. And like a lot of posters on the Batman review, you really do seem to hate movies. I read a review in the New Yorker that didn't like Batman and one in Slate that did, and I think both of them were more enlightening than any of your reviews. To say that C. Nolan effed up because he's not like Hitchcock or hasn't seen a Hitchcock movie and he's made this huge extravaganza--?? The headline on that should have been: Zacharek to Nolan: You're no Hitchcock!

That would have left us scratching our heads.

Now your problem is that Meryl Streep seems to be having TOO MUCH FUN just to prove old women can have fun. OUTRAGEOUS. Truly, you amaze me in a car wreck, can't stop reading this stuff kinda way. And you just keepa goin.

mustard, molasses and apple cider vinegar make a great glaze for a pork roast, mix it to your own taste. I know this stuff even though i don't need to anymore.

then your column goes on to say that you think at least some of his comments have merit, which they do. Ralph speaks up for poor people and beleagured small towns and is considered a raving lunatic. I've had it with the whole mess and the election. it's completely pointless

you're no erma bombeck--not funny, not insightful, just dumb

you are so missing the point. You seem to insist that everyone wants to "shoot the messenger." No, I don't. I'm just totally not interested in your message. If you want to detail the merits of different toys, dolls and books, why don't you get a job writing for Consumer Reports. "Yes, it's based on a doll. But this gentle-spirited MOVIE makes the past come alive." She's talking about a film. How very generous of you to allow people to read the books they choose.

so i don't watch weeds, but it sounds interesting. I did watch a couple of episodes of Jeff Lewis but stopped watching after the episode where he hadn't provided bathroom facilities to the people working on his house and then discovered they had used the crawlspace for a toilet. It was so gross and the thing that seemed to have him the most upset was that his hired garbage man refused to go under there and clean it. That's when (in my view) he went from mildly amusing fussbudget to complete sociopath.

was so different in tone from her previous ones. I think she enjoys insulting and bossing people. What she seems to enjoy less is being called on her bullshit. You may correctly accuse me of vitriol.

maybe you don't know what vitriol is because your letters are full of it. I don't know why you think parents should have to defend their doll-buying choices to you, but you seem to think they should. I have no interest in the doll argument. You highjacked this thread with your overlong letters and your judgments of people. I just like to read salon's movie reviews and this sounds like a good one. You have been just hateful since your first letter.

if you cut way down or out on sugar your cholesterol will lower and very quickly too. That's not most people's biggest problem, and you may not have heart disease now, but someday if you're 80 or more, chances are you will likely to get sick sometime. I read about a woman yesterday who was 94, and she had a list of illnesses a mile long, medications too, but she lived at home and was very independent. Whoever said that healthy people cost the system money was absolutely right.

And for the poster who had chronic hypothyroidism and epilepsy, I sympathize totally. Sometimes I get the feelings from doctors that if they have to treat you for a chronic illness your health is for shit anyway so--? But really, most doctors are nice and well meaning.

are great in the snow, and it's not so much the deep snow but the new snow, so slippery

And ahanson, have you been to the free clinic lately? I went just a couple of weeks ago. It is absolutely no worse (probably better) than going to someplace like Kaiser Permanente. I'm in total agreement that the health insurance industry is ruining health care. The best care you can receive is nonprofit. Shriner's Hospital is another great chronic care model.

you said what i wanted to without whining