Letters to the Editor
ironocrat
Published Letters: 241 Editor's Choice: 4
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Acronyms
[Read the article: Introducing 5 Things!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...are not like station call letters. At all. I don't care if I catch the national news on WABC or WXYI.
After clicking through, I figured out that PPLE is "People", GWKR is "Gawker", and EOTS... well ok I didn't click through. Perhaps click-throughs are the point? That's why Paglia is published here, right?
My point was that this feature is needlessly cute. Are Salon's coders really realizing an economy in writing GWKR instead of Gawker?
And yes, there is a point to be made regarding Salon's opinion as to which "top five stories [I] need to know about."
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Jonathan
[Read the article: Florida's House Dems oppose second primary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Those terrorists knew the rules going in. If they didn't want to be tortured, they shouldn't have been terrorists.
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And before I get a long-winded reply...
[Read the article: Florida's House Dems oppose second primary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This "OMG the rule of LAW" argument is stupid. The rule of law is great when it's right. When the rule of law is wrong (or at least viewed as such), claiming "you knew the rules" mostly just makes you look dense.
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Addressed to the Hive Mind:
[Read the article: What the Poling autism case means]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I honestly expected there to be a lot more of that attitude in this thread. Color me surprised.
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mrsfxc
[Read the article: Carville wants resignation cease-fire]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I thought the Republican party was the intolerant one.
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For those with any background on Victorian society...
[Read the article: Carville wants resignation cease-fire]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...the reason that "Victorian" is so often used as a pejorative outside of architecture is obvious.
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Mikes Pace
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Good thing there were never racist acts or people north of the Ohio and/or west of the Mississippi.
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wright5579
[Read the article: FDA disregarded results on food from cloned animals]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm absolutely shocked to so often see purported liberals that clamor about reason and decry global warming deniers perform the exact same mental exercise of "well we can't be 100% sure!" when it comes to food science, vaccines, etc.
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wright5579
[Read the article: FDA disregarded results on food from cloned animals]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I borrowed your language but it wasn't really aimed at you. Incidentally, you are correct about the administration's anti-science cant.
Labeling doesn't seem harmful but it does seem unnecessary. Those calling for labeling seem right in the general sense but wrong in this specific instance.
Just another example of the fallacy of applying rigid ideology in real life. Cheers.
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walter_map
[Read the article: Architecture of a recession. ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]While your point about the poor voting against their own self-interests is a good one, I would argue that voting for the Democratic Party has not necessarily been in their own self-interest either.
The anti-poverty Democrat seems to be a rare creature on today's political landscape.
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walter_map
[Read the article: Architecture of a recession. ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What do indicators of support for the middle class have to do with the poor? I'd say very little.
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Randvek
[Read the article: Do childless women make the most productive lawyers?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Which for-profit industry DOESN'T measure your worth as an employee by how much profit you help them generate?
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Yuck
[Read the article: Obama-Bloomberg '08?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I like Obama enough, although I would vote for either Democratic candidate, but with Bloomberg on the ticket, I'd vote third party or stay home.
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Penny Barrett
[Read the article: Is Briana Waters a terrorist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The lesson you should learn from your story is that it is extremely ill-advised to take legal advice from a fellow protester at the circus.
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catnmus
[Read the article: Is Briana Waters a terrorist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The point you and so many letter writers are missing is that this article hardly represents the evidence found in the trial, nor does its simplified definition of terrorism purportedly from the Patriot reflect the law's meaning.
I'm in no way defending the Patriot Act, but the near-constant "Well it sure seems like the government's case was weak" and "Ho ho! Guess that means Bush/Rumsfeld/the military industrial complex/whoever is a terrorist!" based off of this extremely biased and agenda-driven article just makes liberals look like idiots.
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Literary deal breaker?
[Read the article: What is your literary deal breaker?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Broadsheet.
Not seriously, but I couldn't resist.
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Your vote
[Read the article: Fox News' influence on the Democratic race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, the best candidate for president would be one that asserts the office's power over the media and bans the use of certain words.
Nice call.
Oh wait, it's not April 1 anymore.
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'normanx'
[Read the article: Fox News' influence on the Democratic race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't think I misunderstood you.
You're saying you'd prefer the president had the power to decide what is news and what is not, and I'm saying that's a stupid idea. If that requires further explanation, I don't know what to tell you.
Fox News is just as much news as CNN or MSNBC. Unfortunately, this speaks more to the value of 95% of "news" programming in general than anything else.
Finally, you can trust that if Rupert Murdoch thought he could make a buck off a hard-left cable news channel, Fox would trade Bill O'Reilly for Rachel Maddow in a heartbeat.
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SobeOne
[Read the article: Fox News' influence on the Democratic race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Would you care to explain your comment about Olbermann? I don't watch cable news for the most part, so I'd be interested to hear what you mean.
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Strangely Enough
[Read the article: Fox News' influence on the Democratic race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You honestly think the other cable news networks have pro-Dem biases?
Other than Keith Olbermann and a few others, that's a laughable assertion.
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Here's one you didn't list...
[Read the article: What happened when I Googled For You]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How to get librarians from going on endlessly about their jobs in these letters threads
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Get it together!
[Read the article: McCain maintains menacing money problems]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You couldn't have made the headline "McCain maintains menacing money mess" or "McCain maintains menacing money mire"?
Never pass up the opportunity to alliterate to excess!
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I'm sure it's been posted, but...
[Read the article: My last word (for now) on sexism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...complaining about sexism when immediately below your post is a link to Paglia's latest crapshoot? I would offer examples, but I refuse to help generate the pageviews that her shock-lit columns generate each month for this site.
Joan, I happen to agree with you regarding Clinton's treatment, but it certainly seems like you're not holding Salon to the same standard you would prefer the rest of the media follow.
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Oh please
[Read the article: Would Obama investigate the Bush gang?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Does anyone actually think a self-described consensus builder who is more interested in compromise with a compromised party than installing a progressive agenda will honestly investigate any major member of the Bush administration?
I don't necessarily mean this in an anti-Obama way, but I simply don't buy that there would be any serious investigation or repercussions coming from his administration. As quick as he is to move on past the culture wars and other internal battles (which haven't been won yet, by the way), that just doesn't seem consistent.
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PSMarc93
[Read the article: Hannity's unfortunate role in the Democratic debate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So because George Stephanopoulos asked a question that seems to have been suggested by Fox News, Hillary Clinton, her family, and all her supporters are in league with Rush Limbaugh?
Got it.