Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 42 Editor's Choice: 2
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Thank you
[Read the article: Sore losers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jacob Weisberg's article in Slate really pissed me off, and you provided the perfect antidote. I feel much better.
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Pluto
[Read the article: Pluto's retreat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you. As an amateur astrologer (and there are hundreds of us on the New York music scene alone), I had been curious about the impact of this category dispute, and didn't know where to look. Leave it to my favorite news web site to get the lowdown.
- Kyle Gann
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Slient majority
[Read the article: Men who hate women on the Web]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dear Ms. Walsh,
I was very happy to see you now have a blog, because I've read you for years and always admired you. I'm one of the majority (60%? 85%? 99%?) who read Salon, think, "Wow, what an insightful article," and don't post anything, because I like what I read. And one of the reasons I don't post is that the people who do mostly seem so negative, so impossible to please, and have such gigantic chips on their shoulders. I don't want to associate with such people, and am afraid if I say something supportive they'll turn on me too, and make me sorry I bothered. I'm sure you're right about the misogynist bias; I'm a man (which I mention because some women bear my first name as well), but I have spent much of my career promoting underrated women artists and fighting the feminist fight. Keep in mind the millions of us out here who turn to Salon for our daily dose of intelligent opinion, and whom you never hear from because we're just happy someone's fighting the good fight.
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Bravo
[Read the article: Chris Matthews on Fred Thompson's sexiness and smells]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fantastically revealing. This column alone is more than worth my Salon subscription. It's as good as Paul Krugman - and three times as frequent!
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About time
[Read the article: The political fringe]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The phenomenon you so eloquently describe, Mr. Greenwald, is one that really began to bother me during the Clinton impeachment. 76% of the country wanted the impeachment nonsense to stop, but all the media moguls spoke as though the people were outraged at Clinton and demanding his head. It was the first time I realized what a bizarre disconnect the media was presenting us, and you're the first writer I've seen explain it in detail. Thanks.
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Maybe worse than we know
[Read the article: The political fringe]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's my belief that Democrats in Congress will continue to put their own political survival above anything else...
And maybe not only political. I frequently think that the only fact that could totally explain the Democrats' behavior is that they see what happened to Paul Wellstone and know that anyone who steps out of line could be next.
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Side effect
[Read the article: Art movies: R.I.P.]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was disappointed to see Salon invite Paglia back, but I've finally realized I can skip her articles and just read the letters she inspires. They're so entertainingly abusive, and, I can presume, deservedly so.
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I'm giving MoveOn a break
[Read the article: Petraeus' Pentagon skeptics]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, when Jerry Falwell called Ellen DeGeneres "Ellen Degenerate," *that* was immature schoolyard stuff. But when someone in a position of tremendous power, which he threatens to use in a dubious manner, has a name that's an unavoidably close rhyme to a phrase all too suggestive of what he's about to do, I can't take objection to someone pointing out the coincidence. I have often wished that the Democrats in congress had a tenth of MoveOn's cojones.
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James Joyce for breakfast? No thanks
[Read the article: The Breakfast Liberation Front]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I tried to read this article, but after reading every sentence twice to disentangle its convoluted in-jokes, and hoping I could get through it without knowing what "forehead-powered cargo transport" means, I hit "a seven-minute downward-facing tree" and threw in the towel. I don't need to read Finnegans Wake to find out that American eat badly.
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Mormonism and Texas
[Read the article: What happened to Fighting Rudy?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My dad was a lifelong Southern Baptist Texan and proud of it. He voted Republican primarily on the gay marriage issue. But if there was anyone he hated worse than gays, it was Mormons. I don't even know why, but it was a deep, old prejudice that he shared with his peers. Once some proselytizing Mormons left a copy of The Book of Mormon with me, and when my dad, visiting, saw it on my bookshelf, he got the most upset I'd ever seen him. I had to tell him that someone just gave it to me, and that he could throw it away if he wanted. So for months I've been licking my lips over the prospect of Romney becoming the front runner, just to see all those Southern Baptists doing backflips trying to abandon the G.O.P. fast enough. And I laugh when my Northern friends talk about Romney as a viable candidate. I think if it came down to Mitt versus Hillary, Texas would have its lowest voter turnout in history.
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Quick, Switch Targets
[Read the article: Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The best possible construction I can put on all the Bill O'Reilly-talking-point-parroting hate-mongerers present today is that maybe, just maybe, they're all out trashing Gore because the vicious process of demonizing poor little 12-year-old Graeme Frost was too embarrassing even for them. One would hope.
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Even a stopped clock
[Read the article: It was a joke (we think)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ironically, Bush just publicly honored the Dalai Lama, the first thing he's ever done in his entire life that I approve of.
Even so, I subscribe to all the paranoia expressed above.
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shannonr:
[Read the article: I'm dressing up as a melting polar ice cap]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That post was more insightful and thought-provoking than a lot of Salon thinkpieces I've read.
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Me Neither
[Read the article: Time tries again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Interesting: in a sidebar called "Related Articles," Time links to the relevant quote from the bill:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1688754,00.html
but I have neither the time nor the legal expertise to see whether they got it right.
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@Allie
[Read the article: Is rape off-limits for laughs?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Good analysis. I didn't see it at first, but I think you're right.
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Thoreau
[Read the article: America's first Me Generation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As long as Thoreau's writing periodically inspires me to re-examine my life and reconsider my priorities, I don't give a damn what his myth was.