Letters to the Editor
Anesthete
Published Letters: 44 Editor's Choice: 7
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From the looks of it ...
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... he's actually just left a soprano saxophone lesson.
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New Rule: Proofread your cuecards before airtime
[Read the article: New rule: Sudoku]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's "Tom Wait s" and "a job for Indian s."
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Re "giant cartoon"
[Read the article: No reprieve for Alberto Gonzales]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This must be your first time reading "this website"; otherwise, you'd know that the writings of Salon's columnists are (and, to my knowledge, always have been) accompanied by a stylized caricature of the author.
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Apropos the bald barber
[Read the article: The haircut primary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The town has two barbers, one with a good haircut and one with an awful haircut. The riddle asks who you should let cut your hair and the answer, presuming that neither could cut his own and therefore each cut the other's, tells you to go with the sloppy-haired guy.
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That'd be a hell of a compliment, though
[Read the article: The K Chronicles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've seen photos ... and Aaron McGruder is hawt.
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"Thought-provoking social commentary on race relations in today's America"
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A reader over at the Onion AV Club ("Ngah!") called this one about two weeks ago. Nice to see Mr. Bolling wrapping it up so tidily. Nothing more need now be said about this program.
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Ah, there we go --
[Read the article: At least he didn't choke on a pretzel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The only thing that could improve Bush's ratings now is an "assassination attempt" capable of being misattributed to one or more already disliked suspects.
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Peter for paul
[Read the article: Surveying the rubble]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The RS article only mentions it in passing, but I'd sure like to see if there's a correlation the graph of the increased consumer spending on DVDs and the graph of decreased spending on CDs. I bet there is. I me personally frequently find myself shelling out $20-40 for DVD box sets, and it feels to me like that's coming out of the same pocket that would have spent the money on CDs. I bet a lot of other people feel the same way, especially as the average street price for DVDs has steadily dropped and the street price for CDs has steadily risen ("I can get sound plus picture for $19.98 or just sound for $17.98")
To reiterate: people mostly rented VHS tapes, but when DVDs hit big, they started buying those and, it's my opinion that they bought DVDs instead of buying CDs. Yet, I frequently see articles on the decline of the record industry that don't even mention this possibility.
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Disgraceful
[Read the article: Hungrr's iPhone auction gets no relief]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, can we get a contact number for that local affiliate? How about badge numbers for the cops? I'm not clear what if any law was being broken except "inconveniencing someone with money simply by existing in a non-invisible way".
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Sichuan Peppercorns
[Read the article: Why I returned my iPhone]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your grocer lied to you. Sichuan peppercorns were hard to find between 2002 and 2005 when the USDA was enforcing the ban, but they changed the rules in 2005 so as to allow importation of the spice provided it's heat-sterlized to kill a bacteria potentially ruinous to the citrus industries of Florida and California.
The Chinese supermarkets in the Los Angeles area all carry Sichuan peppercorns, usually a couple different brands in packages ranging from one or two ounces to large kilogram-sized bags for restaurant use.
Oh, and you'd have been able to find most of this information yourself if you'd done a quick websearch on the topic before switching recipes.
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Burqas and Chadors
[Read the article: No visible panty lines]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I love when "religious" fundamentalists (usually men) start telling women what to wear in order to please their man-gods.
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Smells like entrapment to me, though
[Read the article: Craig to cop: "I'm a respectable person"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Everything about this seems fishy to me. I think it's entirely believable that this cop went to that mensroom to catch someone misbehaving and snared the first person who sat down next to him. Ordinarily it would have been some poor innocent anonymous anyman, who would have pled guilty, paid the fine, and spent the rest of his life on some sex offender registry, but this time around it was Senator Grampa.
The first thing that bothered me was the explanation about how if someone puts their luggage against the stall door, that they're doing it to block the view so they can do sex. Where else in a bathroom stall are you supposed to put your luggage?! Think about it. It doesn't fit next to you, and you're not going to hold it in your lap. It infuriates me that no one in the media has raised this observation.
And what's this stuff on the tape about the right hand versus the left? I find it difficult to believe, as the officer proposes, that Craig reached across with his left hand, turned the palm upward, and stroked the underside of the stall wall on his right side. That's just not physically possible. Right hand, right stall wall, maybe... but not with the hand from the opposite side of the body, and definitely not while wearing a business suit coat. Try it.
Sure, Craig's a scumball, and probably deserves to have see firsthand the results of the society he clamored for, where the slightest deviance merits a public castigation and "faggots," real and suspected, lose their jobs, reputations, privacy (and worse), but I still think this arrest was a setup worth of a much more critical examination than I have so far seen in the media, Salon included.
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It would be
[Read the article: John Edwards' Katrina contest]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... if John Edwards was trying to position himself as the candidate who's Tough on Weather.
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Equity
[Read the article: Senate passes Matthew Shepard hate crimes bill]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wake me when groups of gay teenagers go driving around looking for a straight kid to beat up.
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No child left behind
[Read the article: True confessions]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For what it's worth, when you prepare to take the Naturalization exam, they give you a list of all the questions and all the answers. One need only memorize those five facts about Franklin.
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Another idea
[Read the article: Anonymous no more]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I would favor a two-pronged approach:
1. Allow anonymous posting; and
2. Allow logged-in users to set as a user preference whether or not to see include anonymous posts when displaying letters. The default would be "hide anonymous posts." At the top of the letters page there would be a link to "show (or hide) anonymous posts for this article."
Then the people who wish to post anonymously would still be free to do so, but with the disincentive that most Salon readers wouldn't see their words.