Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 16 Editor's Choice: 1
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The downward slide continues
[Read the article: Honey, I read "The Stranger"!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is the sort of unimaginative drivel I would expect from a politically conscious high-schooler, not a novelist. I certainly would never expect this sort of thing to ever be published!
Will someone please tell me what has happened to Salon over the last two years? I'm sure it used to be worth reading.
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I'm with you!
[Read the article: One body to rule them all]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you Serai; it's rare to see independent thought on Broadsheet. Don't rejoin the flock. Keep thinking and keep posting!
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I wonder...
[Read the article: One body to rule them all]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wonder if Ms Goldstein would care to respond to any of this? Now that would be interesting!
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Wrong section
[Read the article: Son of a preacher man]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why was this filed under "Life" and not "Books"? A brief interview with an author largely focused on his new book hardly strikes me as a "Life" piece. It drives me up the wall when Salon does this. I almost feel like I was suckered into watching an infomercial.
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Broadsheet amuses me
[Read the article: Women's colleges: Good for America!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If this article had said that all-male institutions were producing superior graduates, I'm sure Ms Rockwell would be demanding they begin admitting women rather than praising the institutions!
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Wow.
[Read the article: Really bad trip ... to a museum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think this is the first time I have ever agreed with Ms Traister!
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full names = red stars?
[Read the article: "Marie Antoinette"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Unless I'm way out to lunch (it has been known to happen), full name does not guarantee a red star. Case in point is "Elaine M Barr" who has also posted on this thread.
That said, if all that is required is a real name to be an 'editor's choice' it goes a long way to explaining why red star posts are usually so laughable on Salon.
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Hallelujah!
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]End of rant. That moratorium on all things security is hereby reinstated. If you're tired of reading about it, I'm tired of writing about it.
Thank you Patrick; I look forward to reading more columns about the lighter, more "romantic" side of air travel. The security charade that is going on airports is important to address but I think you're preaching to the choir in 'Ask the Pilot'!
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Flavour of the Week
[Read the article: The Fix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now Federline wants to go to Africa to help people? Don't get me wrong, it's great if some good comes of it but I can't help this but think this is a fad among celebrities who want free and positive press. Also it looks like the trend is moving down through the celbrity ranks: first Pitt/Jolie, then Madonna, and now Federline. In a few weeks we'll hear that Suzanne Somers will be adopting an African orphan! I hope I'm wrong about their true motives but if we continue to see B and C-list celbrities doing this then I doubt that I am.
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Sorry
[Read the article: The Fix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry about the typos in that last post.
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Shocking!
[Read the article: The sexiest man living!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm shocked at how readily the women of Broadsheet objectify men! Aw, who am I kidding? I don't actually care as long as they (and Salon in general) practice what they preach and give us equality! Next week let's see the their list of the sexiest women!
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Another hat in the ring
[Read the article: The accidental birth of civilization]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]While in university I attended a lecture as part of an ongoing special lecture series which posited yet another possible catalyst for the origin of civilization. The name of the lecturer eludes me at the moment (my apologies) but she stated that the climatic record showed frequent global instabilities in the first few millenia following the last ice age. Such were the variations in her opinion (and her charts), that agriculture could not have been reliably maintained for long consecutive periods, thus stifling settlement and perpetuating hunter-gatherer societies. She observed that these fluctuations 'calmed down' at about the time the first civilizations began to arise. This seems to me to be every bit as plausible as the theories mentioned above. We'll never know of course, but I would wager that civilization arose from a combination of these factors and probably from others that we haven't even come up with yet.
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A little off topic but...
[Read the article: The professor of pigging out]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Does Salon have to mention The French Laundry in every food article? I wonder if Joan Walsh scores an expedited reservation every few times they mention the restaurant and help keep up its profile.
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Salon, don't humiliate yourself
[Read the article: Peace out, my Wigga]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please leave the satire and parody to The Onion. Let them do what they are good at and you continue doing what you are good at (It's an ever-shrinking list these days anyway).
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No need to be offensive "anonymous"...
[Read the article: Nothing but nog]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I was married for 18 years to a non-Jewish woman, and I suffered through Xmases year after year. What a stupid holiday! Bah, humbug!"
Hmmm, how would it it sound if I, as a Catholic, said the following "I suffered through Chanukah's year after year. What a stupid holiday! Oy vey!"
Doesn't sound so nice does it?
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I'm afraid not Mike
[Read the article: The new girls club]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Terribly sorry Mike but you don't speak for all of the men here. If we are striving for a world with equality for all, then there must be equality down to every last detail. Anything less will breed resentment and further the 'battle of the sexes' that humanity has been dealing with since the dawn of history.