Letters to the Editor
Bitter Scribe
Published Letters: 80 Editor's Choice: 2
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They're going to gang up on him
[Read the article: Fred Thompson announces his latest announcement]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I predict that the current GOP candidates---you know, the guys who have been picking their way through Iowa cowflop while answering the same questions over and over and over and over---are going to really let this guy have it. They must be fuming every time they see a poll that puts him second or third.
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Jinx, schminx
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jay Mariotti of the Chicago Sun-Times, who is possibly the biggest jackass ever to occupy space in a press box, once lit into White Sox announcer "Hawk" Harrelson for "jinxing" a no-hitter. This would be unworthy of note, since Mariotti can hardly write 10 words without saying something idiotic, if it weren't part of a long-running feud between Mariotti and Harrelson (who is no prize himself). If this so-called jinx can be used as part of another spiteful, childish vendetta by Mariotti, that tells me all I need to know about how seriously to take it.
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Let me get this straight
[Read the article: Jesus is my dorm advisor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]These kids are carefully kept isolated, their entire lives, from anyone who thinks, acts, looks or lives differently from them, and they're being groomed to lead the country?
Scary.
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Foster was the only good thing about that movie
[Read the article: Quote of the day: Take that, Jodie Foster, Nicole Kidman!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It had a hackneyed plot, mediocre dialogue, annoying herky-jerky camera work, atrocious editing, etc. Foster's performance was the only thing that kept my interest. And it's her fault the movie bombed?
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Thank you, King
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As someone who suffered through Harry and then Chip Caray as Cubs announcers, all I can say is thank you for that smackdown. Ninety-nine years without a championship is one thing, but no one should have to endure the Carays.
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Irony
[Read the article: Gore for the Nobel? How about Petraeus?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]More from the Sun editorial: "It has seemed to us that the American GI is the greatest force for peace in the world today, and we say that without the slightest bit of irony."
That can only be because their sense of irony has been surgically removed.
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The popular/"artistic" distinction...
[Read the article: Their terrifying sounds]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...existed within what we now know, indiscrimately, as "old" classical music.
Case in point: Beethoven and Rossini were contemporaries. Almost anyone who has enough knowledge to be worth listening to would say that, while Rossini was a fine, even immortal composer, Beethoven was a unique genius. Yet Rossini was far more "popular" at the time both men were composing, simply because his melodies, rhythms, etc. were more crowd-pleasing and "accessible." Ironic that both are now considered part of the old, warhorse, crowd-pleasing canon. The point is that music evolves, but so do tastes.
This was generally a good article, but I can't believe he gave a serious mention to 4'33", which is an unfunny joke akin to hanging an empty frame on a museum wall.
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"Detailing"
[Read the article: The Hooters of haircutting]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I read once about a men's salon where manicures and pedicures were called "hand detailing" and "foot detailing," in an obvious attempt to make them sound more masculine.
Personally, having a hot babe cut my hair appeals to me more than some silly euphemism. (As long as she could actually cut hair.)
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Hasn't this been done before?
[Read the article: "I Am Legend"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wasn't this it's-the-end-of-the-world-but-oh-no-lots-of-people-have-been-turned-into-flesh-eating-zombies theme the basis of some movie based on some video game? "Resident Evil" or some such thing, as I recall.
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Oh, not this crap again
[Read the article: The atheist delusion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Atheism leads inevitably to despair" is just a warmed-over version of the "atheism leads inevitably to immorality" argument. And they both stem from the same source: the desire of religious people to appropriate everything that is good, desirable, true, kind, etc. in the name of their deity.
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zzz_05
[Read the article: The year in celebrity scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I seem to remember a remark along those lines being attributed to Bill Murray. It makes sense to me.
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Thank you, King, thank you
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I got sick of those '72 Dolphins a loooong time ago. Mercury Morris, in particular. Keeping his mouth shut should have been one of the conditions of his parole.
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Maybe they just don't know
[Read the article: The Headless McCain Smear]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One of the reasons the perpetrators of the so-called "smear campaign" aren't being identified is that no one has actually proved Rove and Bush were behind it. They probably were, but unlike in blogs, "probably" isn't good enough for a responsible news outlet to make an explicit accusation.
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What's with the beauty queen stuff, King?
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is this your way of trivializing the steroid situation in baseball? If so, it was spectacularly unfunny.
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This is a whole lot of nothing
[Read the article: How close were Barack Obama and Tony Rezko?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No one has ever intelligently explained what Obama did with/for Rezko that's supposed to be so terrible. He bought land from the guy and paid more than what Rezko asked for it. How does that implicate him in anything?
For someone who considers himself so knowledgeable about Chicago and its politics, this McClelland doesn't seem to know that there is no such thing as "a clout," referring to a person. There is just "clout," i.e., improper influence.
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Second on the Coke commercial
[Read the article: TV Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I also liked the Coke parade-balloon commercial, which must have cost a fortune to produce. On the other hand, supernaturally precocious babies creep me out. (Remember the dancing baby from Ally MacBeal? Ugh.)
The Doritos ad with the guy in the rat costume bursting through the wall was also good. Ditto the Audi spot that paid homage to the horse-head-in-the-bed scene from "The Godfather."
But someone needs to tell SalesGenie's agency that phony Chinese accents are not funny. Ditto Bud Light and Carlos Mencia. (How did this guy ever get past open-mike night at the Comedy Klub?)
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Right on, King
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When Knight uttered that line about "We all learn to write in the second grade, and most of us go on to other things," I wish someone had had the nerve to retort, "Like bouncing a ball?"
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It could be worse
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At least he's dabbling in running a ballclub instead of right-wing politics. For a while there, I was afraid we'd have another Chuck Norris on our hands.
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Waiting for the shoe to drop here
[Read the article: Memo from U.S. Christian conservatives to Europeans: Have more babies!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A lot of these conservatives are afraid of Latinos "outbreeding" Anglo women in the U.S., just as Muslims are the bogeymen (bogeywomen?) of Europe. They won't quite come out and say so, but that's the motivation behind much of this fulmination against "illegal immigration."
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Anyone remember Enron Field?
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Corporate names can come back to bite you in the butt.
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When Knight made that snotty comment...
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...about how "we all learn how to write in the second grade, and most of us go on to other things," I wish someone had had the nerve to retort, "Like bouncing a ball?"
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Parson Jim, right on schedule
[Read the article: Warning men about "gray rape"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...with his finely honed sense of persecution.