Letters to the Editor
Christopher1988
Published Letters: 569 Editor's Choice: 40
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What the....?
[Read the article: Where have all the bohemians gone?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This article makes not sense. The title is only tangentially related to the piece, and Hannaham can't decide whether people will use this book or not.
Go-getters who don't know what they want to do become lawyers, criminals or something in between. Nobody reads a book to decide where to live. People who can't find work won't pay $26.95 to figure out where to get a job. Anyone who can leisurely contemplate switching cities for work purposes probably has the resources to visit.
Not one of these assumptions is valid. They aren't even accurate as generalizations.
And what's with the weird
None of this surprised many urbanites, though some Americans, unaware of trends in popular culture and oblivious to the Internet, may have been shocked to find that queers and quasi-bohemians do anything other than sin.
The flattering of "urbanites" is offensive, but someone should clue Hannaham that there's already a pretty pervasive stereotype that "fags have great fashion sense and make up a lot of the artistic population." Maybe he should have written that it will shock some Americans that "queers and quasi-bohemians" are making up a sizable part of today's business culture, as well.
What a waste of space.
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@manos99
[Read the article: Spare votes?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Will you big strong brown shirts take me out to see Miss. Clinton perform live in Elton's new adaptation of the family fantasy epic "The Lyin' King?"
Can you at least see if you can get me tickets?
LOL.
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Guess this is the last gasp
[Read the article: Hey, Obama boys: Back off already!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Salon has to get its digs in before Obama takes the nomination. At any rate, I hope they will cease fire when he gets the nomination. I guess a particularly bitter editorial board could choose to sabotage the Democratic candidate in the general election...
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Why do some feminists insist on painting men as the villains?
[Read the article: Hey, Obama boys: Back off already!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What about the female Obama supporters who call Hillary names? What about the female Clinton supporters who spew vitriol? Why is it that men are being singled out here?
The picture that accompanies this story says it all: the guy doesn't look mean, or in-your-face. He's a smiling guy who holds a picture of Obama. And he's the enemy. The female (not carrying photo of Obama) lowers her head. The lesson is clear: the man running for president is bad, the man voting for him is bad.
That's not a feminsist message. It's a sexist message.
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Couldn't be that Couric was fired because she was just a lousy newsanchor?
[Read the article: Was Katie Couric railroaded?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
It's got to be um, oh, what? Ah, yes: sexism.
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Is a compromise possible?
[Read the article: In court, J.K. Rowling nearly cries over Harry Potter Lexicon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There are elements that strike me as violating, or possibly violating, copywrite. I'm not just referring to possible lengthy quotations, but the book's visual presentation, which is apparantly a mock-up of a Harry Potter tome. If the book did not visually mislead readers, and if quotes were kept to a certain lengtt, or so many per page, could a compromise be reached?
I'm thinking specifically of the guides and commentaries written about the Disney theme parks—which make sure to steer clear of Disney images/iconography, or mock-up work that could mislead the reader into taking the artwork as such—and Batman Unmasked, a cultural evaluation of the character that does not traffic heavily in quotes (as I remember) and contains no copywrited DC imagery.
There is a way to present this material that does not confuse readers, or even casual browsers, in terms of where the product originates, but nonetheless leaves the author/editor free to make a studied compilation in regards to a very popular franchise.