Letters to the Editor
carsten
Published Letters: 6 Editor's Choice: 1
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white space
[Read the article: An update on our redesign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I read that you were rethinking the white space design of your current redesign. I just wanted to add my 2 cents on this. When the new site launched (and already before that in areas like War Room were the new design was already visible) I really liked that you made the pages less cluttered and used white space to make readers focus on the right things. So what I am saying is before you go back to the design table please make sure the end product of a re-redesign is not going to be a cluttered page.
Two areas which I think are a bit odd are the two boxes on the right hand side the service and the community boxes, they feel a bit out of place where they are right now.
overall though I think this is one of the best site redesigns I have seen in a long time.
carsten
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soccer is boring??
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't buy the argument that American Football is more interesting than European soccer because of revenue sharing. American Football is a big corporation which is sucking the life out of a sport and making it feel like Disney Land. And revenue sharing is just part of it, one big happy family. In soccer a team can be big this year and one division lower the next. Take a look at Dortmund in the German league which was one of Europe's top clubs in the 90s and due to mismanagement and ill-advised trades is now finding itself in the middle of the league. Or take a look at Madrid, which has bought some of the most expensive players in the world and they are behind Barcelona and Osasuna (which is in first place and most of us will probably have a hard time finding this place on a map). What makes soccer so amazing is that first it is truly fan-based. Fans put their hearts into these clubs and the reason for this is that clubs can't just be transfered from one city to the other. Also, most clubs are still fan owned. And in addition even if a team is not doing that well there is always excitement since you don't want your team to drop into one of the minor leagues. Yes, with American football there is this chance that any team can beat any other, but then there are also teams like Arizona who just suck and ok maybe in 10 years they win the Superbowl but who cares, in the meantime they have no right to play on the same level as the Colts, they should give other teams a chance and make money in the big league. And yes Chelsea might have won the league by now, but who will drop into the lower league? who will make the Champions League? And who will win the Arsenal-Chelsea game? In the end there are way more things that make a soccer league interesting than the American Football league, there is it about the Superbowl only nothing more, thats it, who will play in that one game and all the others will be happy sharing the revenues.
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Jeffrey's response
[Read the article: Generation jihad?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have to say that I find Jeffrey's earlier comment quite unqualified.
He says that " French and the European (as well as American) intellectual elites have cheered on the jihadists and militants for years, ignoring the attacks on Jews, Jewish property and even Jewish graveyards (not to mention the atrocities of suicide bombers)."
This is just not true. First there is a difference between Jews and Israel and second there is a difference between cheering and trying to understand an issue and not condemning something right away. What may look to some right wing people as cheering is nothing else as not condemning and instead trying to understand the violence.
Then he goes on to say that "when blacks rioted in LA, Maxine Waters called it an uprising (meant to liberate Hennessey and diapers from the local merchants!)." At the same time the press reported of "looting" after the flood when it was done by blacks, and by "needing some food" when it was done by whites.
"What is is with the left and the spilling of blood? Why do they love it so?"
I guess if you want to have a body-count the right wings love of war is creating a vastly higher level of blood and death, and is likely the root-cause of many of the examples Jeffery mentions that are "cheered" by the left.
Also, that European ghettos teem with "violence, rape and honor killings" is a bit of a stretch. I live in Washington DC and you can turn on the TV here on any given day and you will probably have as many killings here as you have honor killings in France in a year.
And it is easy for Americans to talk about Europe's immigration problem as a country that has only one real boarder.
"but Muslims seem to despise the societies they live in" - again, why does America have the highest crime rate in the civilized world?