Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 31
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In the Words of Joe Esposito from the Karate Kid soundtrack...
[Read the article: Gonzales in training]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Try to be best / ‘Cause you’re only a man / And a man’s gotta learn to take it
Try to believe / Though the going gets rough /That you gotta hang tough to make it
History repeats itself / Try and you’ll succeed / Never doubt that you’re the one / And you can have your dreams!
You’re the best! Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down!
You’re the Best! Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down!
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In the Words of Dr. Nick Riviera
[Read the article: National journalists believe you should trust them]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Hey! Did Schneider go to Hollywood Upstairs Journalism School too?"
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A Spot Of Advice
[Read the article: Coulter: "Who's running this holocaust in Darfur, FEMA?"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Try helping yourselves.
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I Faced a Real Conundrum Today
[Read the article: Real inconvenient truths]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Should I get Dr. Pepper or Diet Dr. Pepper? Fortunately, my question, like every other in the known universe, was answered by a passage in epic tome "Sexual Personae."
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The Analysis is Correct Except For One Little Thing...
[Read the article: Anatomy of Beltway conventional wisdom]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... I have never run across anybody who has ever read Mickey Kaus or The New Republic except to make fun of them.
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It All Fits!
[Read the article: Quotes of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cyborg! CYYYYBORGGGGG!!!!
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Austin-Drenched (1989-1990)
[Read the article: Where were you freshman year?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Daniel Johnston beginning a stay at the Austin State Hospital
Slacker beginning a year-long run at the Dobie Theater
I bought my first CD, which may have been the Stone Roses "Fools' Gold" single at Waterloo Records
I don't think I watched television that year, but I did play a lot of Tecmo Bowl
First bad experience with tequila in an upperclass dorm
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A Show's Quality Is Not Measured...
[Read the article: Tease me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... by the number of obsessives who spend hours a day posting theories about the show. It is about 75% horrifically acted, and its sense of mystery is only cumulative, meaning that it just enters the feedback loop for the obsessives.
Here's a theory: they are making it up as they go along, using a rapidly rotating set of writers.
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You Know...
[Read the article: After everything we did for them]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... you would think that somebody who ostensibly studied history at whatever prep school he went to, got an Oxford degree, and spent 10 years as Prime Minister wouldn't sound like a goddamned World Net Daily editorialist when discussing recent Middle Eastern history.
I mean, why not ask "Why are there so many refugees?" or "Why are there about half a million people dead?" That makes about as much as "Why are they so angry?"
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I Wish CNN Had a More Literal Graphic
[Read the article: One picture, one thousand words]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Something like "Thoroughly Discredited Senator Dresses Up Like an Assclown, Spouts Numerous, Easily Debunked Falsehoods About Foreign Policy"
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I Don't Know About Thompson...
[Read the article: Chris Matthews on Fred Thompson's sexiness and smells]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... but I can tell Chris Matthews that desperation for a strong, paternalistic GOP candidate is a stinky cologne*.
* Sorry, Super Troopers.
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Forget Plan A: Dicking Around
[Read the article: Warner, Levin: "Not optimistic" on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We've moved on to Plan B: Dicking Around Even Harder!
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"Water Wet"
[Read the article: The enduring myth of Americans' dislike of investigations]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You can use the above title next time Professor Reynolds unskillfully links to something he doesn't understate, disingenuously tacks on three words of original commentary, and then mewls like a hungry kitten when called out on it by others (since the cowardly turd doesn't have comments).
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The Hilarious Thing About That Insipid Editorial...
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt, Michael Ledeen and the "bomb Iran crazies"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... is the tone of "Why is the IAEA hassling Pakistan? Just because it's a nuclear power and has sold technology to every rogue state imaginable? Please! Let's focus here!"
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A Plausible Explanation
[Read the article: Bush on Iraq: "We're kicking ass"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One of the advisors to the Sock Puppet-in-Chief showed him a video of a Halo 3 battle instead of actual Iraq War footage. Which might also explain the enigmatic quotations about lasers and giant space insects.
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My Good Sweet Lord....
[Read the article: National Review's new tough guy, Mark Hemingway]
[Read more letters about this article: Here].... the first of the cloned John Podhoretz embryos has finally reached adulthood.
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The file path for that power point presentation
[Read the article: Brit Hume and the Bush administration take propaganda to a new level]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]c:/windows/documents/petraeus/whitehouse/up_is_down.ppt
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Damn The NYT For Abolishing Times Select...
[Read the article: David Brooks and the deceitful tactics of the Beltway pundit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... now Brooks' radioactive garbage, which is written with the same Mad Libs program that David Broder's columns are, has been leaked into the general populace again.
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Kind of a Dick, Isn't He?
[Read the article: Anonymous Liberal for Glenn Greenwald: Giuliani on torture]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who knew?
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This Reminds me of the Mr. Show Sketch
[Read the article: Hitlers, Hitlers and more Hitlers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Hitlers seem to be popping up everywhere!" "It's impossible to get a date... once they find out you're Hitler, forget it. It's over." (youtube here).
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Love the Campaign Slogan
[Read the article: Democrats in big, big trouble because of the Great Iraq War -- again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"While every measurable indicator has gone to hell, things are actually not the absolute worst they've ever been! Vote GOP '08!"
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Another Campaign Slogan
[Read the article: Democrats in big, big trouble because of the Great Iraq War -- again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since Glenn seemed to like the first one... this one is taken from the Simpsons:
"Well, of course... EVERYTHING looks bad if you REMEMBER it!"
Since the writers are on strike, I pledge 4 cents to George Meyer, who wrote that line in the service of the most surreal Simpsons episode ever, The Mysterious Voyage of Homer (guest starring Johnny Cash as the voice of the coyote).
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I Wonder What It's Like To Peak at 25
[Read the article: "I'm Not There"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yet keep going for another 40 years. Don't get me wrong, I love him and a lot of his music, but for fuck's sake, boomers! Haven't you already ruined the Beatles for me?
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The Mitt Romney Equation
[Read the article: The atheist delusion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Some sort of theological framework can justify our trust in meaning, in goodness, in reason." I suppose if you're going to posit societal needs out of wholecloth and the existence of evidence that doesn't look like evidence (and can increasingly be explained by neuroscience), then I guess you can offer religion (although it appears he's merely talking about Judeo-Christianity) as the panacea.
Just because some prominent atheists are assholes doesn't cause me to clutch at other people's subjective myths out of desperation.
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Color Me Surprised
[Read the article: Everything you were afraid to ask about "Southland Tales"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here](1) people saw this movie
(2) somebody is willing to write 1500 words about it
(3) people are writing letters on it, including me.
My first trepidation with Richard Kelly involved the "Director's Cut" of Donnie Darko: one of the only instances where the added footage and commentary almost made me hate the original theatrical release.
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Show's Not All That Smart
[Read the article: Everything you were afraid to ask about "Battlestar Galactica" ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Final Five thing makes no sense, neither do the command hallucinations, most of the dialogue is cringe-worthy (except when in the hands of the more experienced actors), and it blows its SFX budget in the first half of the season, leading to long, tedious stretches, and its metaphors for current events are about as ham-handed as a guy with two Honeybaked hams for hands.
But I'm looking forward to Season 4.
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That Self-Important, Republican Twat
[Read the article: Schilling on Kobe: "Pissed off and ranting"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Can take a flying leap
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Well, There's the Tone...
[Read the article: Bush says he regrets tone on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... and then there's the tens of thousands of dead or severely wounded American soldiers, millions of dead or displaced Iraqi civilians, hundreds of billions of wasted dollars, plans for permanent bases and indefinite immunity for private contractor thugs. Gee whillikers, Wally, I sure don't know why they don't consider this misshapen imbecile to be a man of peace.