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Published Letters: 75

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 08:15 AM
Original article: Staking out my aesthetic

You forgot the "l"

in "stalking".

And as to the others complaining about Keillor's torture apologia, it seems everyone defending him on that hasn't bothered to read it, either. It's simply the most horrifying thing I could ever imagine coming from him, as if Mark Twain had written "The White Man's Burden" instead of "The War Prayer".

Thursday, September 17, 2009 10:32 AM

Terrible essay

I have a hard enough time with Andrew Leonard's self-indulgent "How The World Works" column, but this? An essay on Jennifer Aniston that doesn't even mention her sizable role in Office Space, which for me established her comic chops (though others will rightly point out they were established elsewhere). Aniston is an actress with above-average talent that sometimes comes out in films and sometimes doesn't. Is this just jealousy talking because she continues to get (and earn, by the way) A-list creative fees?

Friday, September 4, 2009 08:24 AM

Shorter, space solar

Blah blah blah prototypes are expensive blah blah blah economies of scale blah blah blah gimme subsidies now. In other words, the same song and dance every other utopian energy production scheme runs with.

Thursday, June 18, 2009 10:07 PM

You conflate criticism with demonizing

Try again, and thank you for playing. At this point, virtually all criticism of Obama (who has done almost nothing for gays) is legitimate.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 11:50 PM

Seriously horrible advice

Agree with others who say the kid is heading to young pregnancy or worse, and with those who say the parents need to straighten themselves out. Yelling? Not getting it done.

One of the worst columns I've read from Cary, and there have been some really awful ones lately.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009 03:34 PM
Original article: Let war crimes be bygones

The first letter nails it

Garrison, you've jumped, not only the shark, but the entire Pacific Ocean. Congratulations on joining the ranks of the depraved.

Thursday, April 2, 2009 11:02 PM

Buh bye, Palm

You killed PalmOS, and you lost me as a customer forever.

Thursday, March 26, 2009 08:28 AM

Both the left and right keep sneering at libertarians

but seriously, how much of this nonsense would be happening if the government were a hundredth of its current size?

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 09:43 AM

Unbelievable comments about charity

Asked later about his proposal to cut the percentage of charitable donations the wealthiest taxpayers can deduct from their taxes, Obama spun it cleverly. "If you give $100 and you're in this tax bracket, at a certain point, instead of being able to write off 36 percent or 39 percent, you're writing off 28 percent," he said. "Now, if it's really a charitable contribution, I'm assuming that that shouldn't be the determining factor as to whether you're giving that $100 to the homeless shelter down the street." He cast the debate entirely on his own terms, and managed to make wealthy donors who object to his plan seem cheap in the process.

Of course, this utterly fails to consider the fact that while the government can just magically raise more money by increasing taxes, individuals can't. The pool of money available for charity is fixed and growing smaller, and this kind of facile "analysis" helps no one.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 07:17 PM
Original article: My Big iPhone Break-up

An ex-AT&T customer

I've been thinking about going back to AT&T now that they're the exclusive distributor of iPhones; friends who have them say they're great. I used to be an LA Cellular customer, but once AT&T bought out the Pac*Bell half of that company, customer service was a simple upraised middle finger. I've been with Verizon since 2004, and while I love the idea of a smart phone, I found the Blackberry Storm underwhelming.

Friday, January 30, 2009 05:00 PM

It is vital to remember that extraordinary rendition dates back to Clinton

One of the worst features of Bill Clinton's presidency was how malleable he was in the face of some of the worst impulses. As the ACLU website makes clear

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/extraordinaryrendition/22203res20051206.html

extraordinary rendition got its gruesome start during his administration (as did the requirements making centralized nationwide wiretapping both possible and mandatory). There's plenty of blood on Democratic hands -- not that this is exculpatory for the Republicans by any means, because they vastly expanded these wrongs -- but it will prove politically difficult to rid the country of extraordinary rendition and all its lawless brethren because of that complicity.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:32 PM

What a pantload

For 65 years libertarians and conservatives have mocked FDR's vision, either as a utopian dream or a sinister collectivist plot. But they have lost the argument.

Yes, because Fabian socialism made India so rich, and communism was such a smashing success in China and Russia.

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