Letters to the Editor
debaser
Published Letters: 656 Editor's Choice: 11
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hockey's popularity
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I realize this is a bit of a non-sequitur, maybe more relevant to yesterday's column, but I just read the NBC renewed their contract with the NHL. Turns out that viewership went up 11% last year (which is not an insignificant number...just ask any Clinton supporter ;). When you consider that hockey draws roughly the same attendance league wide as the NBA(it was about 1 million less last year)...I think the argument that NHL hockey isn't popular begins to look a little less solid.
What I've always wondered is what regional coverage of the NHL gets. It's true that hockey doesn't capture the national american imagination, but it sure seems to do well regionally. Besides, I wonder just how big the national ratings are for your average August saturday afternoon baseball game? I wouldn't be surprised if it was kind of underwhelming. The playoffs though? No doubt, those are ratings dynamos...hell Fox shifts their entire schedule back just to accomodate them!
cheers
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thanks
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For reminding me of my favourite Rickey Henderson story. The one where he goes up to John Olerud in Seattle and says "Rickey used to play with a guy that wore his helmet in the field in Toronto" and Olerud replies "Uh Rickey, that was me."
(apparently it never happened, but man is that story a good'un!)
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depressing
[Read the article: Is Obama really standing up for gay rights?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's a depressing truth that Obama has to tip-toe around this issue probably more than any other...especially when one considers the virulent homophobia within the black community.
It depresses the hell out of me, but I understand it.
(I also think he's alot more progressive on this issue than he lets on, but that's just a hunch)
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p.s.
[Read the article: Is Obama really standing up for gay rights?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]when I said that "I understand it" I meant the need to tiptoe around gay issues, not that I understand homophobia. 'Cause I don't. In the core of my being, I don't understand it, it's so bizarre a mindframe that I simply cannot fathom how someone can even entertain those ideas.
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question
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just wondering, when do you learn about sex ed in the US? Is it High School? I assume it varies from state to state, but what's the average? I'd hazard a guess that it's 11th Grade.
Doesn't that seem a little...ummm....late? Why wouldn't you want to explain these things BEFORE it's an issue? Heck even in my Catholic Canadian education we learned about all this stuff in 5th Grade (excepting of course any mention of condoms ;) and you'd have a unit on Sex Ed every year up until 12th Grade. I especially found the last one amusing...that's when they finally broach the topic of contraceptives, but tell you that they're all basically abortions...which made us all laugh, as most people in the class were using birth control anyways. OH! and they made us watch that awful pro-life movie "The Silent Scream"...which again probably didn't have the intended result as all we did was mimic the stilted narrator for weeks afterwards :)
sorry, that was a bit of a tangent there...what can I say? slow day at work.
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Here's an idea...
[Read the article: Is Obama really standing up for gay rights?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You want to get equal rights, including Gay Marriage?
That's easy, you get yourself an "activist" supreme court with the proper inclinations and hey presto, denying gays the right to marry becomes discriminatory and therefore unconstitutional :)
(actually I'm being slightly facetious, but that is how Canada did it, no politician would touch it with a 20 foot pole. Private citizens brought the issue before the Court, they declared it discriminatory, and it became de facto legal. Some provinces try to pass laws banning it, but those will be challenged and shot down as unconstitutional)
What I'm trying to say in a rrrrealllly roundabout way is that the naming of Supreme Court Justices is of paramount importance, something that should give the "if my candidate loses, I'm voting McCain" crowd reason to pause.
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Is it?
[Read the article: Feminism is the new funny]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is it sexist of me to admit that I find Tina Fey crushingly attractive?
'Cause God help me I think she's just about the sexiest woman I've ever seen...
probably because she's a) hot b)obviously intelligent and c) hilarious.
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agreed
[Read the article: Whose fault is the Clinton-Obama stalemate?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]fault is a stupid, corrisive word in this context. It's nobody's fault, there is no fault. There are two candidates that have incredibly loyal support bases that don't siphon off votes. One candidate is undoubtedly in the driver's seat, and has been for a while now...but just because he's in that seat doesn't mean he's won yet (although he will win) and therefore the other candidate need not drop out until she damn well pleases.
so let's stop the bloody flame war...this is stupid.
Let's take a page from ol' Raygun and decide to never say anything bad about a Democrat.
deal?
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@marmosetto
[Read the article: Whose fault is the Clinton-Obama stalemate?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree wholeheartedly with your last post, it really is easy to get the ol' blinders on in this primary and extrapolate it to the General beyond all reason.
however, you seem fairly new here so a word of advice: just ignore Shawn White Male...he's probably the worst of the freeper trolls lurking around here (lolcait, cynthera, odog, proudtexasgirl(?) are equally awful). He really has nothing to add but gasoline on the fire...which I think we can all agree is useless.
cheers!
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Smith, Senorplaid & Xufapemu
[Read the article: Clyburn hits Clintons on tactics]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree wholeheartedly. Let's raise the tone here a little bit shall we?
Ignore the trolls (or mock them as they rightfully deserve) but let's not go pissing on the earnest ones here...even if you disagree.
Maybe take a page out of Raygun's playbook and never say a bad word about a Democrat?
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who will win the big blue states?
[Read the article: Who can win the big states?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ooh! Oooh! I know the answer to this one!!!
A democrat.
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oh man Sith
[Read the article: Krugman asks "what's gone wrong" with Obama campaign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]so you're THAT guy/girl aren't you? The one that ALWAYS takes the joke too far?
heh..see you around.
(what a maroon)