Letters to the Editor
malcalypse
Published Letters: 133 Editor's Choice: 3
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I laughed
[Read the article: "All those white guys"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When the 2nd reported says "I did *NOT* say that," there is a huge grin on her face.
I think it was an innocent and playful moment between colleagues as one of them prepares to move on, professionally.
The humor on both sides (April Ryan and Tony Snow) was evident and nice to see.
Relax. If you want, you can still think Tony Snow is a tool. I know I do :)
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The Web is filled with the writing of fine writing about baseball.
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well said.
What about Hockey?
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Kind of a sad misreading of the article.
[Read the article: Trivial (or is it?) Number of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"In the White House" does not mean "President."
Were you in a hurry?
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Too Readable
[Read the article: Radiohead's new album: Choose your price]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think you should try to select a font and background that makes your blog even less readable than it is now.
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I remember...
[Read the article: Zune 2.0: Microsoft's new line of music players]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"remember Windows, remember Internet Explorer"
Yes, I remember when Mac's OS lagged way behind with no protected memory and Apple's machines were much less powerful and more expensive.
I also remember when Internet Explorer was a much better browser than its competitors (circa IE 4). It's not like Firefox existed in 1999.
Also, you seem to be saying the world adopted Microsoft's products out of mere weariness instead of a combination of better features and their anti-competitive practices.
I guess you're not a journalist, but a blogger, so we can forgive some of your uninformed ranting.
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Not Bloody Likely
[Read the article: Is a new conservatism possible?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're basically saying that if the conservative movement abandons the only thing that ever brought it electoral success: manipulation of racism and xenophobia in Southern religious whites, they can survive and/or grow up.
I think you're missing something big here. Without those cheap tactics (add voter intimidation and disenfranchisement to the list) they don't have any chance of winning any elections.
That's their whole strategy. To the extent they have won, they have won using the very strategies you're now recommending they eschew. Not gonna happen. They don't know any other way.
Just wait 20 years until all the Fox news / O'Reilly viewers kick the bucket, and we'll see what life the conservative movement has in it.
My bet is not much.
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Did salon pay for this crap?
[Read the article: How Oprah ruined the marathon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What a weak article.
Oprah Ruined the Marathon! Well, if she did, she ruined it for you, but only because you're basically a petulant little 4 year old.
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Interactivity?
[Read the article: Of working women, handbags and cosmetics]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At most websites I consider to be interactive, readers get to rate the letters/posts other readers make.
At Salon, the editors choose which thoughts are worthy.
Such is interactivity, I suppose.
Posting a one way conversation in a different medium (video as opposed to written word) is not interactivity. It's just a different flavor of the same old same old.
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Open source OS: Already Exists
[Read the article: gPhone: Android to ring in thousands of Google phones]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's called Linux and it's the one Google is using to make android.
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From a mac book pro "owner"
[Read the article: Once and for all, proof that Macs are cheaper than PCs]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Owner as in my work bought it for me. I love it. Would I pay for it myself? Probably not. I build the systems I use at home, and I just can't stomach the investment.
Your example is lame. Resale value. What was the % drop for both? The windows machine started out lower, ended up lower. What is the %, is it significant?
If you don't have that kind of information, you're only Once and For All proving your headlines are misleading. Just like that damn pilot guy - headline about farting and when it comes time to talk about it he's too shy. I felt misled.
To the guy with the Quadra in 1994, congrats on using telnet...LOL.
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Ah but radio does give off light
[Read the article: The raven has flown]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's just not in a frequency you can detect with your eyes. You must use your ears.
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Dems aren't the only ones...
[Read the article: Karl Rove is ... right?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Karl's moment has passed too.
Of course, his editorial is filled with half truths. Yes, the Dems have squandered the good faith we placed in them. However, it has nothing to do with their being organs of Moveon. It has to do with them being like Karl Rove.
With their first small taste of the majority's power they so enjoyed in the past, they have realized not only do they not want to give it up, but they want more.
This becomes so central to their worldview that the real reasons they were elected sre subverted, leaving us in the end no better off than we were with the Republicans.
Power corrupts, and what we see with the Democrats is the end result: every single decision, every single thought, bent towards the goal of more power.
It's a perversion, and it's making me sick.
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It's easy
[Read the article: Mind your manners online]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I feel like there is too much emphasis on manners in all levels of our discourse.
This is why our politics is so dysfunctional. What if, in a Congressional debate, instead of "The Gentleman from South Carolina," we got to hear "This Depraved Asshole who thinks the USA should torture people"?
I tend to think politeness gets in the way of truth because people aren't willing to tell the truth if it means bruising an ego or two.
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You're behind the times...
[Read the article: Pro-life doesn't mean unsexy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All conservative t-shirts (and many liberal ones) are advertised with that same pouty lip perky breast angle.
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Reminds me of how we treat gay youth
[Read the article: Crying "witch!"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This reminds me of the lost boys of Salt Lake or just any disaffected abused runaway in our own country.