Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 10
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Don't touch Buster's math homework...
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So i guess "18-4" is just another way to type "16-5"?
'Cause when you start the season 9-8, you have to go 12-5 the rest of the way to finish 21-13. Four playoff wins brings you to 16-5 since that mediocre first half of the season ended.
You just can't get this kind of tedious nitpicking anywhere else!
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Meh...
[Read the article: Condi's Iraq surprise]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...so the groundwork begins to be laid for the Condi '08 campaign.
A courageous, visionary end run around a completely discredited SecDef and VP to prop up a slightly less completely discredited president? Whoop-de-do. If this is what passes for courage in the Bush administration, etc.
Gosh, and to think this story came out just after the midterms and Rummy's subsequent resignation? What a coincidence. Would it have seen the light of day otherwise?
Move along, folks — nuthin' to see here.
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The next sentence is also wrong...
[Read the article: The city of brotherly losers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Then the '90s saw a return to normalcy, with 1,290 more losses than victories.
Bad math or bad copyediting — or both?
Ten baseball seasons = 1,620 games. Subtracting 85 games lost to the '94-'95 strike = 1,535 games.
You're saying that the Phils went 122.5-1,412.5 in the 1990s?
Maybe someone with more time on their hands will add up the Phillies' actual record during the 1990s and post it — i'm nearly as lazy as the author appears to be.
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Sure, but that's not quite the point
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He hasn't been indicted for (obligatory insert of "allegedly") using steroids, he's been indicted for lying about it. To federal law enforcement officials.
Lying to yourself? Sad, but not our problem.
Lying to the public? Also sad, but understandable given (as John Randolph noted) the public's own hypocrisy on the issue.
Lying to the feds under oath? Stooopid.
At least now we know that while his skull may have grown, the brain inside? Not so much.
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Amongst our weaponry...
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lifelong diehard Steelers fan here.
Two possibilities:
-Steelers win a close one this week, then the Pats crush them in the second round of the playoffs. I wouldn't put it past Belichick to somehow engineer the former in hopes of ensuring the latter happens. Better a letdown in Week 14 than Week 19 (see: 15-1 Steelers losing in the 2004-05 AFC Championship Game).
-The same Steelers team that showed up for the Cards, Broncos, Jets, and Dolphins games shows up in Foxboro and gets crushed both this time and in the playoffs. (I somehow can't see the Steelers winning in Indy and Foxboro.)
See what i did there?
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Here's contrived.
[Read the article: Profanity-laced tirade watch: Mariners]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lip lockin' lesbians in King Kaufman's kolumn? All-American alliteration!
(Processing Pittsburgh Penguins' latest lousy loss...)
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Meg Whitman...
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...is a Republican.
Has been mentioned for McCain's running mate, though.
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Indeed.
[Read the article: Is Slovenia the film world's new Romania?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Zdravo!
Just to belabor the above point -- 'cos i haven't seen any of the films in question -- according to World Bank rankings, Slovenia is actually the richest of the former Eastern Bloc nations (even including the Czech Republic).
It's just above Portugal and just below Israel in terms of per-capita GDP.
And Andrew, don't tell me you've never heard of the band Laibach! Avant-garde Slovene goodness since 1980.
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Sorry, sloppy use of language...
[Read the article: Is Slovenia the film world's new Romania?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Was going to write "of the former Communist countries of Eastern Europe", and should have gone with that first instinct...
Point remains that Slovenia has the healthiest post-Communist economy in Europe.
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Shorter RobertDalziel
[Read the article: In memory of David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]YOU KIDS GET THE HELL OFF MY LAWN!