Letters to the Editor
twhicks
Published Letters: 23 Editor's Choice: 1
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Penetrating and multilayered social commentary
[Read the article: The K Chronicles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You should totally do one about how many waiters and waitresses are wanna-be actors!
Did you do traffic yet? What about fake boobs?
How about all the shallow people who move here seeking development deals and then do nothing but bitch?
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Cuban smoked
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Back when Cuban first bought the Mavericks, for no apparent reason he singled out Dr. Jerry Buss for criticism. He said that Buss and the Lakers would become irrelevant, lacking the money to compete in the new budget-busting NBA of the Mavs. So I cursed him to know nothing but heartbreak from the Mavericks. I feel no reason to lift my curse.
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Too soon to tell?
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Do you know who Ernie Banks is? I do, and I hate baseball. He is a great Chicago Cubs player who never won a championship. I know this because Jordan would be compared to him all the time. That is until Jordan won 6 NBA Finals.
Do you know who said "I've won at every level, except college and pro"? I know it was Shaq because this quote would be the jumping-off point for sports writers who would wonder if he could ever lift his team to a championship. That is until he won four.
I just think this is a little premature, seeing as how I recall that Jordan and Shaq won their first rings when they were around 28-29. And I address this last comment not to Magic Johnson my favorite all-time player but to Magic the crappy NBA coach. I always wondered if he sat on the sidelines during Lakers games and thought, "OK, here's the part where that player should impose his will on the other team and break their spirits. Why isn't he imposing his will? The other team is definitely not feeling the imposition of his will."
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Who needs preseason?
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How about the backup quarterback for the Giants? I can't believe that a player that fat can play that position. At least he's in New York so he will have lots of sensitive support after his futile run for a first down last night.
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Damned if you do ...
[Read the article: What ever happened to Britpop?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I remember the period in rock criticism when Paul Simon and David Byrne were racist because they pillaged other cultures to make their music.
I also recall reading in the '80s that the reason people didn't like disco in the '70s was homophobia. Are we all still on board with that one?
So I guess I'm still scratching my head a bit:
Is Elvis Costello not racist because of his extensive references to a wide range of musical influences?
Or is he a racist because he is the only artist in my record collection who referred to someone as a nigger in the heat of an argument?
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Believable
[Read the article: Hot off "The Wire"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think the Prop Joe story line works because he was set up by his nephew, who Prop Joe thought of as an idiot. Earlier in this episode he said something about how transparent his nephew is. So Prop Joe was tripped up by his own vanity, maybe?
I also don't think Prop Joe was teaching Marlo as a way to make himself obsolete. He was trying to make himself indispensable to a really violent man. And he did read the situation on the street right -- because he was trying to head for safe ground. He just didn't get out fast enough.
It's a good thing that Cloverfield monster didn't turn up in B'more. They'da fucked his shit up.
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Tuck Rules!
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1) Eli Manning was not MVP of that game; the defense should have been recognized in some way.
2) They could have picked Justin Tuck, who had two sacks and would have been accepting it on behalf of that awesome D line.
3) Then the headline could have been Tuck Rules!, maybe not on the main story but on a sidestory. That would have been a brilliant reference to the ridiculous "Tuck Rule" that gave the Pats the ball back against the Raiders, after the Raiders recoverd the fumble. The Pats would go on that post-season to win their first Super Bowl. Thus leading to my almost disorienting and inexplicably intense hatred of the Patriots.
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Predictions
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am a Lakers fan who was not impressed by the Suns trading for Shaq. But even so, I was shocked by how many people were calling upon the Gods of Common Wisdom when declaring it a bad trade, this so soon after these same Gods were proved powerless by the New York Giants.
I am going to remember this Super Bowl for a long time. It's because of that game that when people ask me if the Lakers are going to win a championship, "Golly, I hope so" is the furthest I will go in offering a guarantee.
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Bush = McCain?
[Read the article: So long, John -- gas is $4 a gallon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat who is getting a little concerned at campaign strategies that would hinge on making McCain the inheritor of the Bush legacy. Yes, they are both in the Republican Party, but I don't think anyone considers them the same guy (nuance, people, remember when we would harp on this word?). I think people, liberals to be exact, are making a mistake if they think that McCain's stance on the Iraq war plays the same with the publice the same way Bush and Cheney's does. I think McCain will give all those tens of millions who voted for Bush in 2004 a do-over on Iraq. They will say, We were right to go in, but Bush screwed it up. So we didn't vote for a bad idea, we just voted for a dumb guy. This McCain guy will get results.
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AJCalhoun
[Read the article: So long, John -- gas is $4 a gallon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You do get that I was presenting an argument that the McCain campaign could use to appeal to people who voted for Bush and then felt bad about voting for Bush because of the Iraq war? By being a critic of Bush's handling of the war from the outset, McCain has an out that he can exploit. I wasn't presenting my opinion of the man.
Yes I am tired of war. But is asking that any more constructive or helpful than, Why do you hate America?