Letters to the Editor

• The Lacrosse Women were being blamed for the actions of the Lacrosse Men.

  [Read the article: Duke women not innocent]
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  Now Sally, of all the wierd, hysterical letters here, I'm going to have to say that yours takes the cake. So you're saying we're all getting it wrong about the message on the headbands. You're saying that what it means is that the women are pronouncing themselves innocent, rather than the men because when they wear the team insignia there are more than a few people who think the women's lacrosse team was involved in the alleged rape and that the women feel so harrassed as accused rapists that they all got together to scribble "innocent" on their headbands?

  Good God, what are you smoking?

  And Sally, my advice still stands: If the female lacrosse team at Duke really supports the male team 100 percent, then the next time the boys want to have a circle jerk with live dancers, then the female lacrosse ladies ought to step up and do the nekked pole dancing. That way, it's all in the family and if anything like rape occurs, they can all claim everybody is innocent because they support each other. Right? Anybody?

  Permalink Saturday, May 27, 2006 04:52 PM

• Well look people, the bottom line is ...

  [Read the article: No tampons for the pope]
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  There ain't a whole hell of a lot of difference between living in Poland and living in South Carolina these days.

  Permalink Monday, May 29, 2006 06:09 PM

• Somebody call for take-out

  [Read the article: Duke women not innocent]
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  "* The team members who called the escort agency, whoever they were, requested a white woman and an Hispanic woman to dance at their party. This might comfort those previous posters who believe that the members of the team had set out to exploit black women specifically." -- defenseattorney

  Team Captain: "Hello, is this the Happy Ending Escort Service? It is? Great. Say listen, I need some escorts for take-out. Um humm. Let's see, lemmie ask the guys, hold on a tic."

  Team captain to raucus guys yelling in background:

  "Hey shut up! I need to know what you guys want for escorts.

  Team member 1: "Get pizza instead."

  Team member 2: "I'll take one Black escort and one Hispanic."

  Team member 3: "Yeah, get me a Hispanic, one Jew, and one fat Canadian."

  Team member 4: "Ask them if they have any Diet Sprite."

  Team member 5: "Jewish sounds good to me. Ask if she's Kosher. If not, I'll just take a Korean, with a shmear of Kim Chee."

  Team member 6: "I'll just do leftovers, I like sloppy seconds."

  Team member 8: "Hey, I got an idea. Instead of paying for it, let's get the women's lacrosse team over here. They'll do anything to support the guys."

  Team member 9: "Nah, their a bunch of sweat hogs."

  Team captain: "OK, OK. Listen up. All they got are two drunk Black chicks."

  Chorus of howls from team: "Any ol' port in a storm, captain!" "Yeah man, all cats are gray in the dark, or somethin' like that." "Who cares, as long as they bring the pizza."

  Team member 1: "How 'bout if they come smeared in pizza?"

  Team Captain: "Guys, guys, let's maintain a little dignity, OK? After all, we're the pride of Duke University!"

  Uh huh.

  Permalink Monday, May 29, 2006 06:33 PM

• tothdj -- thank you

  [Read the article: Gore in 2008? It's getting hot in here]
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  Salon is pandering the same info-tainment crap you can find anywhere else. I guess $$$ makes anybody a whore.

  Permalink Tuesday, May 30, 2006 10:39 AM

• Ah yes, Casper, Wyoming

  [Read the article: Dick Cheney and the baton twirler]
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  Pipe yards, a smelly refinery, heavy equipment dealerships, dirt and dust everywhere, Holiday Inn weekend karaoke, a bunch of redneck bars, white-trash hags with black eyes and missing teeth, trailer parks, sand lots, five hundred convenience stores, all night truck stops on I-25 serving deadly grease, billboards warning Jesus is going to get you if you don't straighten out, tumbleweeds, a wind that never drops below 20 m.p.h., faggots-niggers-and-Jews-don't-let-the-sun-set-on-you-here unwelcome mats on every church marquee, muddy pickup trucks with Bush stickers and American flags, all this, and it's just a short drive up from Chugwater, Wyo.

  If you are a Bush/Cheney fan, what's not to like about Casper, Wyoming?

  Permalink Tuesday, May 30, 2006 11:09 AM