Letters to the Editor
Kevbo
Published Letters: 9
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Thar be whales asplodin'
[Read the article: The exploding whale]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I cannot watch the exploding whale footage without giggling to this day.
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Human Hybrid Fears
[Read the article: Manimal magnetism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If dogs gain the capability of operating door knobs, we're done for.
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Cheney's Got A Gun
[Read the article: When vice presidents shoot people]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Imagining the incident, all I can picture is Elmer Fudd with a sneer.
Other facts:
*Weapon of Mass Destruction discovered... in White House.
*Guns don't shoot people. Vice Presidents do.
*Whittington might have avoided injury had the Pentagon issued him proper body armor.
*Maybe it really is a good thing Cheney never went to Vietnam.
*"Back and to the left... back and to the left..."
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Q. Why did Vice President Burr wait nearly a day to report this incident?
[Read the article: Exclusive: Alexander Hamilton commits suicide]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]MR. RODNEY: "As part of cooperating fully with the investigation, we made a decision that we weren’t going to comment on it while it is ongoing."
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Me thinks thou dost protest too much.. blah blah blah
[Read the article: Camille and Cintra call the Oscars]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I always assumed Salon had a much more mature readership. It seems strange that so many intolerant and bitter letter writers/Oscar commentary bashers crying about this evening's fare would then choose to spend their apparently precious time sharing their childish reactions here.
Was it just to feel good about themselves for a couple seconds? Do they just want attention? Either way, I guarantee the majority of us had a much better time than they did tonight.
Thanks Salon for the Oscar-related distractions amidst troubling times.
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Paging Dr. Freud
[Read the article: Rich chocolatey weirdness]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ah, finally someone else has spoken of this creepariffic commercial.
Maybe we're going to see a plethora of candy ads designed for Psych 101 students enamored of their new diagnostic skills.
There's tons to play with here. The phallic nature of the candy bar. The woman objectified as merely a junk food sweet to be consumed. His apparent inability to maintain a relationship with a real woman. His violent desire to devour women. The absence of nuts in the candy bar...
I fear what other commercials may soon come our way.
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Insecure much?
[Read the article: "V for Vendetta"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have no problem with Steph's opinion of "V" or any other film. Why? Because it is her opinion and I am free to think whatever the hell I want about the film and any other she reviews. Like the thoughts of any other critic/reviewer, they are there for reference and if I find that she appreciates the same things that I do, then taking her words to heart is a way to avoid unhappy nights at the cinema.
Apparently her negative review has simply shattered the fragile existence of some insecure fanboys/AICN refugees. What the hell are they all doing here at Salon.com, I wonder? Someone must have turned on the dork signal atop city hall. The majority of dialogue and writing at Salon.com would appear to be above them intellectually and emotionally.
Your critics, Steph, have assigned you quite a bit of power over their lives. Your single page of words is somehow gospel but they've decided today to be impudent dissenters. You must have cut them to the quick by slaughtering a sacred cow... or golden calf. Why else would they be this upset?
To your compliment, they must have previously assigned your opinions great weight and you will of course single-handedly determine the box office fate of "V."
Gosh, Steph, I hope you can sleep at night with all this responsibility of determining if all these boys can enjoy the movie or not!
I recommend the angry letter writers here save their venom for real world figures and politicians similar to those depicted, albeit in a hamfisted manner, in "V," if they have taken the film so dearly to heart.
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Sheesh. Calm down folks.
[Read the article: "Sand camp"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They're just practising for duty at Abu Ghraib. -rimshot-
I did not hear a "no" or "stop" that was not said through a giggle. (Not that that would be the only standard for acceptability of this sequence.) A smile rarely left her face.
We don't know the full context of the prank. She may have been payed back for something equally inocuous that she did earlier. She may have lost a bet. Who knows? She may have participated in the same treatment to another soldier in that group.
I'm particularly happy to see non-combat footage of our soldiers. None of them were getting shot at or joining the ranks of the nearly 3,000 dead soldiers of the past few years.
Is she harmed in any way? I'd say not. I'd prefer that we all hear from female soldiers before anyone puts the men up for courts martial.
Maybe this is an example of women being treated as equals in the Army? At no time was she taken advantage of sexually, groped, fondled or name called.
It's nothing worse than what I have been seen other women subject to at the hands of friends without protest. Of course, not every woman would prefer this treatment.
This is just soldiers letting off steam in the middle of a war. Things are a bit different in country. Ask a vet.
It's nearly a clip from M*A*S*H for cripes' sake.
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No surprise here.
[Read the article: Souls on ice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not sure why anything in Debra's article should be surprising to anyone, including Debra. Ignorance, racism, bigotry and a thirst for power all know no color barriers.
The same fear mongering, desperate-for-votes button pushing for power based on ugly distractions from real issues is the same tactic from behind a black pulpit, white pulpit or White House.
Some black people in the pews will figure out they've been played and others will not, just as many of Bush's traditionally white followers will or won't. (This recent election proved some people wised up a bit.)
But the question that remains is this: Will anyone of any race remember being suckered by the GOP all the way until the next election? People have such short memories.