Letters to the Editor
softdog
Published Letters: 186 Editor's Choice: 8
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Suffering Rich, Spare Me
[Read the article: I resent my fiancé because he is rich]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To everyone going on about being sad and rich, spare me. Speaking as middle class kid who lacks his parent's wealth but recognizes the other benefits, I can say being even some privilege beats none any day, no matter how troubled you are. Rich and screwed up may suffer, but poor and truamatized end up homeless and dead. So stop with the "money can't buy happiness.
I think before she lays out her feelings, the Letter Writer needs to play the following song:
She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge
she studied sculpture at St Martin's college
that's where I
caught her eye
She told me that her Dad was loaded
I said "In that case I'll have rum and coca-cola."
she said "Fine,"
and then in thirty seconds time she said
"I want to live like common people
I want to do whatever common people do
I want to sleep with common people
I want to sleep with common people like you."
well what else could I do?
I said "I'll see what I can do."
I took her to a supermarket
I don't know why, but I had to start it somewhere
so it started there
I said "Pretend you've got no money."
but she just laughed an said "Oh you're so funny."
I said "Yeah?
Well I can't see anyone else smiling in here"
But she didn't understand
she just smiled and held my hand
Rent a flat above a shop
cut your hair and get a job
Smoke some fags and play some pool
pretend you never went to school
But still you'll never get it right
`cos when you're laid in bed at night
watching roaches climb the wall
if you called your Dad he could stop it all
Yeah
You'll never live like common people
you'll never do whatever common people do
you'll never fail like common people
you'll never watch your life slide out of view
and then dance, and drink, and screw
because there's nothing else to do
Sing along with the common people
sing along and it might just get you through
Laugh along with the common people
laugh along even though they're laughing at you
and the stupid things that you do
because you think that poor is cool
Like a dog lying in a corner
they will bite you and never warn you
Look out
they'll tear your insides out
[something muffled underneath, maybe: I'm sorry,
Mr Dalton, there's no need to be concerned]
`cos everybody hates a tourist
especially one who thinks it's
all such a laugh
yeah and the chip stain's grease will come out in the bath
You will never understand
how it feels to live your life
with no meaning or control
and with nowhere else to go
You are amazed that they exist
and they burn so bright whilst you can only wonder why
You'll never live like common people
you'll never do what common people do
you'll never fail like common people
you'll never watch your life slide out of view
and dance, and drink, and screw
because there's nothing else to do
I want to live with common people like you
Aa-aa-ah la la la la...
Oh yeah.
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Ticket sellers don't care about the audience, just the profit.
[Read the article: How scalpers hoard "Hannah Montana" tickets]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ticketsellers don't care if scalpers make it hard to get tickets at face value - they care about the extra profits these scalpers aren't sharing. This is their sole motive in suing the scalpers.
There's a simple way to kill all scalping. ID only tickets. If your name isn't on the ticket, you can't use it. Most ticketsellers have no interest in this because it costs money out of their pocket to enforce.
If scalpers set up a profit sharing deal with ticketsellers, you'd see what little anti-scalping enforcement their is dry up. Some deals are already possible now, which is why enforcement isn't more aggressive.
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Binkini Wax on Feathers?
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The joke was great, except it's too bad he had to use Opus for the punchline because that's the only character he could get away with having bikini wax on his body that way. Obviously it would have made more sense with a human character, but no way is the crotch wax on a human figure going to fly.
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Rambling Bullshit Contrarianism and a Parade of Strawmen
[Read the article: Stop your sobbing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What is with Salon and the bullshit contrarian showcase?
Camille Paglia, the anti-trans piece and now this rambling bit of nonsense. All of it full of poorly researched, and often unproven, assertions, personal beefs stated as sweeping generalizations and strawmen.
Lots and lots of strawmen.
The current environmental movement is brimming with dreams, hopes and celebration. It's grim where it needs to be grim when it comes to determined negotiation and insisting on action. There's no "celebration of self" way to say "if something isn't done, people will die." Realistic urgency and outrage is NOT the same as fatalism - it's resolve and purpose.
I ams so bored with these attacks which set up some non-existent authoritarian left and knocks it down with ill-reasoned crap. The false aura of courage is used as a cover for the lack of ideas.
Salon trots out this thumbsucker with a snide and nasty shock headline aimed at doing nothing but agitating the audience, and not in a productive way. The undertone being if you object to a simple attack this somehow proves it, even if those objecting are pointing out how boneheaded it is.
WTF is this "celebrate ourselves" crap? Humans celebrate themselves every day, worried about the planet or not. it's this newage blather which allows the dead-eyed sociopaths on the right to run amok.
These two clowns want to chastise activists for any negativity. It's obvious the real group Nordhaus and Shellenberger aim to please is a right wing audience who wants to dismiss the issue without guilt.
Honestly, Salon if is so desperate to suck up to conservatives, they need to not insult the intelligence of the rest of us.