Letters to the Editor
DurianJoe
Published Letters: 1310 Editor's Choice: 69
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On that UFO nonsense
[Read the article: The green philosophy of Dennis Kucinich]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The facts of this UFO nonsense are this: Kucinich stated that while he was at Shirley MacLaine's house, he saw three objects in the sky and did not know what they were. He did not say they are aliens or anything like that. He said simply that he did not know what they were. I.e., unidentified flying objects.
Dennis Miller is a has-been and an asshole.
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Creepy, but the real villain is Wal-Mart
[Read the article: Creepy panties for the 'tweens on your list]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Kids will be kids, and that means that when they get old enough they purposely try to shock and dismay the adults. I don't like those vulgar panties for kids, but then, I'm an adult.
The real villain in this story is Wal-Mart, the oh-so family values, staunchly Republican conglomerate. They're villains not because they sell this stuff, but because of their disgusting hypocrisy. Not surprising, though: scratch a holier-than-thou wealthy Republican and you'll find a greedy hypocrite underneath, every freakin' time.
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Brightstar
[Read the article: Creepy panties for the 'tweens on your list]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're never going to get laid until you stop hating women. Do you think they don't notice it?
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And that's why I'm a feminist.
[Read the article: Girl abused in all-male jail]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jeebus, that's a sickening story. It is very similar to the story of the rape victim in Saudi Arabia who has been sentenced to 200 lashes.
Both stories, and so many like them, involve societies where women are treated like second class citizens, or even property. When you've got that kind of mentality -- really, a master-slave mentality -- these kinds of atrocities will occur over and over again. Whether its religiously based male dominance or plain old braindead machismo, the outcome is the same.
This is why I'm a feminist. Women need to be treated as equals under the law, and in society, everywhere.
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Slow day, eh Broadsheet?
[Read the article: Quote of the day ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There must be more vital stories about there.
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Huckabee's teenage son tortured and killed a dog.
[Read the article: Huckabee and criminals: It's worse than just Wayne DuMond]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Huckabee's teenage son and another boy confessed to killing a stray dog that wandered into their boyscout camp. They hung it up, slit its throat, and stoned it to death. Huckabee blamed the ensuing scandal on politics.
Here is one source for the story, but if you Google it you will find plenty more: http://blog.showmeprogress.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=528
This same son was recently arrested trying to bring a gun onto a plane.
While it may not be fair to ascribe a son's guilt to the father, you wonder about the kind of man who would raise a son who tortures animals. Worse was Huckabee's attempt to dismiss the terrible crime as mere politics.
I don't want this religious psycho within 100 miles of the Oval Office.
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Spoilers in trailers are still spoilers
[Read the article: "I Am Legend"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Having read early reviews of I am Legend (great novel, by the way) I'm not going to see this movie, despite the fact that I love horror movies. Thus, I read SZ's review in full, including her spoiler about the dog dying. Not that the dog's death would have come as a surprise, anyway, but this did qualify as a spoiler, and I'm glad SZ said so up front.
Some letter writers here argue that this wasn't a spoiler because TV and cinema trailers reveal that the dog dies. Sorry, that's still a spoiler, and that's the reason why I rarely watch trailers for films I plan to see. I cannot be the only one who has noticed that modern trailers give away almost the entire movie. When I watch trailers for films I don't plan to see, I'm always amazed; it's like seeing the whole movie in only a few minutes.
Here's a prime example from the trailer of the lousy remake of, "When a Stranger Calls"): Warning, this is the spoiler to end all spoilers. The set-up at the beginning of the film is a teenage girl babysitting in a house. She gets creepy phone calls from a sicko who keeps asking her to check on the children (who are upstairs). Finally, she calls the police about the calls, and they tap the phone. The creep calls again. Seconds later the phone rings. It's the cops. They tell the girl to get out of the house as soon as possible because those creepy calls are coming from inside the house!
The trailer gave that away! For anyone who saw the original version with Carol Kane, that revelation was scary as hell. Anyone who saw the remake after seeing its trailer was deprived of one of the all-time scary twists in a horror movie. Why would the studios ruin it that way? Their contempt for the audience is glaring.
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48 percent of college boys watch porn
[Read the article: Generation XXX?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]51 percent lie about watching it, and the remaining 1 percent lock themselves in their rooms and obsessively clean their assault rifles while muttering strange prayers.
I'm not sure how I feel about the easy accessibility of all this porn. I'm not anti-porn at all, but I don't think it's the greatest thing for young people, especially young men, to see too much of. Porn definitely exaggerates women's roles in sexual relationships; how many women really want to have a circle of guys simultaneously cum on their face, for example? And obviously, most women do not look like porn actresses.
Porn is fine for adults, though if you watch enough of it, it definitely gets boring.
One last word why porn probably isn't so good for young people: all I know for sure is that if they had internet porn back when I was in high school and college, I probably would never have graduated from either place! (In my day, you were lucky if a late-night diet informercial featuring a babe in a bikini came on).