Music criticism aside (or what passes for it in Salon) there must be something in the album to make everyone go ballistic on every point-whether it was bad, good, better than the Stones, or whatever.

For 40 years, we've been having this argument; isn't it time to just shut up and let the music speak for itself? It was a different time, different place and for those who lived through it, epochal. For others who came later, it wasn't.

So friggin' what? I liked it then (and I was young enough to have the album when it first came out) and I still like it now.

Sure, parts of it are dated, some are just down right corny, and couldn't hold up the space on liner notes. It was an album that kinda spoke to the time and place.

People remember it from where they were. We don't need music critics to tell us what we know in our minds and hearts.

Salon, get music critics who actually know what the hell they're talking about next time, ok?

It would save a lot of hot air from everyone.

Perhaps the LW is projecting ahead of the words.

Once he says it, what happens next?

"oh, I love you so much, let's get married"

Then she pushes him to do that, as well.

Fast forward to the day of the wedding: the groom to be has second thoughts and tells her "I'm sorry, I don't want to marry you; I don't love you that much".

Save yourself some heartache and grief; stop projecting words and emotions onto your boyfriend.

He might be seeing something behind your insistence on saying those 3 words-something you don't want to say in your letter, but it seems obvious to me. You want to do it all yesterday, and with him. Perhaps he knows it and is stalling you until he really feels like he wants to say those words. Perhaps he never will. Accept him for what he is right now. Don't make him to be the only prince of your dreams.

At 20, everyone falls in love. At 30, we have to live with the choices we make at 20. Don't start fast-forwarding your life right now.

Enjoy the experience. Life is not a play, (Shakespeare aside) and your present lover is not the last, hopefully.

From the letters that have been written, you would think that it is obvious that the critics took on the 500 lb gorilla in the room.

Actually, they did. By telling everyone that one of the more important (notice the "more", not "most") influential albums ever produced is over-hyped, everyone felt the need to defend it.

In all truth,what the critics are saying in real words read between the lines that the Beatles were in essence over-hyped, and that is why everyone is putting in their two cents worth.

That would be the real point of this article. By putting down one of their major albums in terms of faux music phrasing or context, they have in essence drawn the wrath of people who truly care about the music of one of the most famous bands in history.

Next time, pick a less controversial and beloved group-it saves wear and tear on the server.

Of course convicts would be sympathetic to someone who is about to join their ranks...after all, isn't everyone in prison innocent, and put there by mistake, or wrongful prosecution?

I don't put a lot of stock in what convicted criminals have to declare should be a proper sentence for Scooter Libby, as most of them are probably working on their appeal from prison, based on what they believe should have been the proper sentence and various renderings of law they believe are not being used to free them.

For the military judge in the trial to declare that he cannot prosecute any detainee because the government did not declare the detainees as "unlawful enemy combatants" is beyond just extraordinary-it is unheard of.

The military is expected to obey the C-in-C, who has put all these people in there...and the judge is summarily dismissing one case, if not all of them because of a legal problem because he does not believe the legal status is valid.

To have the courage to buck the entire military justice system is just unbelieveable, and a very hopeful sign that perhaps even the military is hearing the calls to close Guantanamo.

Perhaps they are smarter than everyone thought..or at least far wiser than the government.

I applaud the judge's ruling. It is very brave and let's hope he doesn't get reassigned or be replaced by a "team player" who doesn't believe in the Constitution or the Geneva Conventions.

Right now, if any of the swing justices retires or dies, we're in for it..and the administration knows it.

Oh, please don't die on us! We don't need another conservative on the court to really screw the Constitution up any more.

18 months and counting on very good health!

For all the pretty words in the letters, the judge probably just read them and put them in the folder marked "Poor excuses for criminal behavior".

Let that be a lesson to these people-all your posturing for your friend did not make a bit of difference, and to think it would is beyond ridiculous.

This the way the real world works: you do something wrong, you get caught at it, you get convicted, you go to prison; end of discussion.

All of his high-powered "friends" in the world can't help Libby there. Bet his mail will definitely not have any of these people as correspondents!