Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 497 Editor's Choice: 25
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"The league aims to be a professional version of college football..."
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So they'll have a confusing, arbitrary, and asinine "championship" system as well?
I'm at a loss as to why all these rich people seem to think that there's a market for MORE football in this country. The idea is usually sold as "football for those who can't wait until September" or fixing perceived shortcomings of the current leagues (the AFL has done a good job of selling both of these). But this marketing angle can only result in niche market success. Most people who watch the current pro leagues are happy enough customers to watch them enough to justify an investors feeling that there is room for more "product" outside the legitimacy of the "real" league.
Its like an investor responding to the popularity of an IPod (to borrow from the online media's latest obsession) by making cheap knockoffs that only play songs from unsigned garage bands. No one's saying that they have less talent, but does anyone think that if they can "prove" themselves in that arena that they won't move to the "next level" at the first opportunity?
You don't see any rich idiots throwing money at a new basketball or baseball league, who also have aspects of the sport that fans would like to see fixed AND have a large fanbase who are (relatively) pining for more action when the season ends. So why all the "4th league" football investors? I agree that there is SO MUCH money in football that the money itself could tempt any serious investor: I'm just not sure that the profit is necessarily transferable, especially when the product is seen as substandard from the beginning.
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OK, I'll bite "1st Anon"...
[Read the article: Oh, horrors: Childless marriages, unwed cohabitation!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's just assume you are right (BTW, you can find a "study group" article to justify ANY position on the internets - providing a link doesn't mean you've won an argument). Let's assume that European nations are "dying" because of a lack of reproduction (I won't even get into what you would deem a "true Greek" or "true Italian", as most Mediterranean people are a mixture of many different once-warring tribes from virtually EVERYWHERE).
What would your solution be? A communist solution that resembles a mirror-image of China's one-child rule? Perhaps we should start children farms where we grow people, weed out the "unfit", and raise them in vast orphanages until adulthood? Your current solution of berating people on a message board seems to have had zero-to-no effect on your childbearing "crisis", so I'd like you to educate us on what exactly we should do to avert said "crisis".
Or are you here just to give us progressives crap and regale us with your right-ness (pun intended)?
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Would you hold up the japanese female protagonist...
[Read the article: To Pixar: We love it. But next time, could you add a girl?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...as a model if you also knew that most are regarded as sexualized characters by their intended audience? Animation in Japan is a COMPLETELY different animal. For every "Nausica" there's 20 alien rape movies aimed at an exclusively male audience. Check out the number of Sailor Moon "fan art" on the web and tell me again that this is what you want American animation to emulate.
The intended audience for Pixar movies are children between the ages of 3 and 11. I'd venture most of that demographic have yet to grasp the concept of gender differences on the level you are articulating here.
If I were female, I'd be more concerned with what the Bratz, American Girl and other such female-aimed tripe was communicating to the young ladies. That and the fact that apparently girls are buying it up like hotcakes!
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Reminds me a bit...
[Read the article: Scott Bateman: Zombie Steve in '08]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...of the "Joe Cartoon" podcasts. Funny only if you like seeing hamsters smashed...
Also, technically speaking, the elbow of most humans (alive or undead alike) do not start at the shins, which is where they would have to be to accomplish the arm animation seen here.
Have you been taking art lessons from Chris "women's spines resemble noodles" Muir? Now that's unfunny stuff (http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/)!!!
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Anybody get the feeling that these letters are selected...
[Read the article: A 19-year-old wants my husband]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...for the number of hits they will generate and not whether or not someone can/will be helped.
Let's see we've got "polyamorous", "BDSM", "teen", and "meth". Sounds like a 14-year-old's dream post! Just add "X-Box" and half the net will be bustin' down the proverbial door! Boy, won't they be disappointed when they get here?!?
As for the issue at hand, what's with all the hand-wringing from Cary lately? Is this the same guy who regaled me tales of seeing the Velvet Underground in Miami when he was a 15-year-old? What happened to that guy? He can't be the prude who worried about mothers who smoke pot yesterday and is now recommending that thirty-somethings destroy their home life to "save" a 19-year-old, who sounds exactly like every other 19-year-old I've ever encountered, including myself?
Short answer: the 19-year-old needs to experience some major pain to get her head straight. Be it unwanted pregnancy, STD, or waking up face down in a pile of your own vomit, everybody's got a limit. She'll either reach hers, re-evaluate her life and make appropriate changes (this self-esteem B.S. seems like her parents way of saying: "Your too screwed up now to be serious about school!". My dad said the same thing to me when I was 19) or die and leave the gene pool alone.
Seriously, isn't there a letter about some minor inter-office squabble that we can talk about today?