Letters to the Editor
Amerigo
Published Letters: 955 Editor's Choice: 60
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Thanks to Anonymous above...
[Read the article: "She liked to dress provocatively"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... who brought this discussion back on track.
I suspect that the man involved was probably not quite the innocent soul that the defense would have the court believe, but much of the discussion here is taken completely out of the context of the original case and its unique circumstances and is thus irrelevant, except that it provides opportunities for some wounded correspondents to abreact when a nerve is touched.
This is a pretty common phenomenon in Broadsheet, where the idea is to totally misrepresent what some judge (always male) has said or done so as to start a conversational hare that will be chased down by the usual compulsive letter writers (maybe I am one too), thus getting lots of hits for Salon and hopefully boosting viewership numbers and hence advertising revenue
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Leave her alone
[Read the article: The lies go on and on]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Leave the woman alone. Most of what she says and writes is complete drivel, but every now and again she writes a column that hits the nail on the head.
When she said:
Six imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether/i>, she was just saying what everyone actually thinks.
Her column about Mike Nifong, the bumbling and mentally confused Durham prosecutor in the lacrosse rapist allegation case, is a good example.
It is precisely because she dares to go where no other journalist dares that she sometimes comes up with some good stuff.
And at least she has a sense of humour. Talking of which, she can be more effectively countered with humor than with shrill arguments.
I like the one about how Bill Clinton told her he was gay so as to spare her feeings.
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The trouble with this article...
[Read the article: The lies go on and on]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... is that it isn't about any political issue or policy position. It is just one journalist bitching about another journalist. Even worse, it is one journalist bitching about another journalist regarding arguments on an obscure TV cable or satellite show that no one who had a life would watch anyway
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Parliament of Fowles
[Read the article: Big momma's house]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For heaven's sake, this discussion is getting to sound like hen-house hysterics when a fox is on the prowl.
Just because Mr. Dover disagrees with a few of the edicts, fatwah's, and cluckings issued by this board's reigning chief hen and her fellow egg production techs, he must be a criminal or inmate? C'mon now. Just because he is rattling your cages, it does not follow that he lives behind bars himself.
Of course one is entitled to form a private image of how one perceives a fellow poster. But if I have an image of someone who has no proper job and spends whole weekday mornings hogging a public library Internet terminal and spewing off chains of letters to Salon, then I will keep it to myself.
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Teabagging?
[Read the article: Big momma's house]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I had to look that one up in Wikipedia, then, because I have a fractured rib, I almost died from laughing.
I can't think how you earned such an honor. I know I am not worthy myself.
Now I shall have to stop reading this stuff before I puncture a lung.
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The price
[Read the article: The iPhone: A quick first look]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The price of the i-phone is not actually all that high compared to the price of other phones when you buy them without the two year contract.
Cell phone companies charge a nominal amount for the phones that are locked to the provider, and then make up the cost by stiffing the customer on the monthly rates.
The problem with the i-phone is that it comes locked to AT&T (or so I believe). As an unlocked phone that could be used with any provider, then it would be fair value. As it stands it is rather steep.
The concept of a music player combined with a phone may seem like a good one, but I don't quite understand how you can hook it up into a musical system in your car and home and use it as a cell phone at the same time. It just seems logical to have a music player, a phone, and if you want it, a camera.
This is the old TV/Video player combo thing. TVs with built-in VHS or DVD players are not all that popular, because if one component goes on the blink then you lose the use of the other. Now, when you drop your i-phone in the bathroom commode or swimming pool, then you lose your music player, music collection,
camera, address book, and your phone all in one fell swoop. You might as well kill yourself while you are about it.
I'm sure some people will find it useful, but
I think I will stick to stand-alone gizmos.