Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 682 Editor's Choice: 9
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The Real McCoy
[Read the article: Michael Bloomberg: Trans-partisan savior]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Assistant District Attorney John "Jack" McCoy and his equally fictional Unity08 Party have always left me with a vague sense of woe: I like Waterston, and I think he is a terrific actor (this is not an intentional "actors should keep their mouths shut screed" by any means, Sean Penn, George Clooney and even Sports Announcer-cum-Commentator Keith Olbermann have plenty of relevant things to say, not to mention Dorito's spokesperson and former South Carolina Primary Candidate Stephen Colbert). I do not think Unity 08 ever had any serious platform other than cooperation for cooperation's sake, which Congressional Democrats are doing a fine job of per se.
Thank you for clarifying for me my intuitions about Unity08.
Happy New Year, Glenn. Happy New Year, everyone!
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The Best of Salon, 2007
[Read the article: Best of Salon 2007]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Was Glenn Greenwald.
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fuzzy jacket-ocracy
[Read the article: Michael Bloomberg: Trans-partisan savior]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]for sale:
vote for the candidate that will marginally guarantee me a roof over my head, a meager wage, and some pantomime of protection -- as long as i don't have to think too hard about it, or make any personal sacrifices (besides an automatic deduction of wages through taxation, most of which feeding a wartime economy in peacetime instead of paying for things i personally can use).
happy new year! i'm wasted, i hope some of you are too.
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@bebop
[Read the article: Michael Bloomberg: Trans-partisan savior]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Were you spying on me when I was getting my i-Ching reading last night? C'mon, fess up.
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Enough already
[Read the article: The bipartisan consensus on U.S. military spending]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Right. Because you Greenwald freaks have it all figured; a colation of bitching, whining misanthropes with too much time on their hands who won't be happy until America is remodelled in the image of Belgium.
Belgium. They gave us "French" Fries (you might know them as "freedom fries"), Trappist bier and they are, unlike us, not universally reviled the world over by civilized people. Also, I do not see Belgium being threatened very often, and attacked less -- notwithstanding the occasional Islamo-burlesque "behead anyone who draws a cartoon of Mohamed" show, which causes the majority of modern Muslims to "*facepalm*" as we say online. It is interesting that you bring up Belgium, because that *does* seem like a place that a Democracy would want to emulate. But that is never enough for people like you, is it?
Anyway, you are a jerk. Takes one to know one, perhaps, but I try to use my powers for good. It's clear to me that you have been hanging out here "having a laff" for a day and a half. Surely your time would be better spent beating up weak children and taking their candy and money? After all, they asked for it, by being so deliciously helpless. It's a dangerous world, and kids won't learn how to watch their backs if Dad doesn't beat the snot out of them from time to time, am I right?
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Big empire, small mind, tiny little..
[Read the article: The bipartisan consensus on U.S. military spending]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please, all this talk of penis size and Belgium.
Here is another war hawk with a personal genitalia crisis. Thanks for ending our chat on such predictable denoument, PW. Try again in a few months.
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OT (or not?) - Joe Klein sighting
[Read the article: Hillary and the mean kids on the bus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn,
I was dismayed to see Joe Klein pop up in the promo materials for season 5 of "The Wire."
Chances are, this wasn't David Simon's decision, but still.. Joe Klein? Boo.
I hope you write something about this last season of "The Wire" after the first 3 or 4 episodes with your take on it, since it is exactly about a good deal of what you talk about on UT.
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Chris Matthews
[Read the article: Hillary and the mean kids on the bus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Did the earth move for you?" Chris Matthews, about how charming Mike Huckabee can be. Does this guy want to spoon every politician who wins something or what?
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The Wire
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This show should be required viewing for every candidate running for president. That Senator Obama lists it as his favorite show, and that other candidates list "Dancing with the Stars" and "The View" and other feel-good claptrap is telling.
Personally, I can't wait until 6pm tomorrow (the early HBO feed!). "The Wire" doesn't get the kind of respect it deserves, but years from now, hopefully, it will be seen by everyone as the masterpiece it truly is.
Also, to the inevitable (and usually anonymous) letter(s) about how this column is a waste of space because "people are dying in the world," I say, preemptively, shut the hell up.
Television is a core part of our American culture, and I'm glad to have someone like Heather Havrilesky writing about it.
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without reading shoot242 and proximity warning
[Read the article: Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds warn of "social unraveling" if Obama loses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]it seems to me that there are people who want to help other people out, and there are people who think, "well, fuck other people, i'll do what i want, and i'll make my living, and that's that".
without reading 242's comments, or proximity warning's comments, i can predict what side i end up on.
so my question to the right-leaning readers is this: are you a sociopath, or do you have empathy for *all humans*?
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Congratulations
[Read the article: Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds warn of "social unraveling" if Obama loses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You've hit the bigs, Mr Greenwald. Look at all this attention you are getting from the right wing thugosphere.
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My Tax Plan
[Read the article: Mike Huckabee wants to abolish the IRS]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Pitchforks and torches, the proletariat taking back the McMansions from the Haliburton Fat Cats.
See ya in 2012 - Scorched Earth Party
"There is no problem so large that I cannot be solved by killing everyone involved."
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@anon coward
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sure it's of the hand held fuzzy high contrast variety.
Anonymous -- shorthard for "I'm about to talk about something I know nothing about." It's not "The Shield", you won't get seasick watching it. Promise. They use actual SteadiCams, for reals.
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Haha
[Read the article: Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds warn of "social unraveling" if Obama loses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now, because of some comment by a regular way upthread, I will forever associate "Proximity Warning" with farting.
I suggest we all open the windows and clear out of here. Happy Monday!