Letters to the Editor
ELYDOG
Published Letters: 844 Editor's Choice: 61
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Keep a list
[Read the article: Turns out, advertising stereotypes men too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here is a fun activity. Keep a pad of paper and a pen by the TV. Keep a list of who is humiliated on each ad you see. Men? Women? Everyone? No one/neutral? etc.
Total up the 4 columns after a day or a week. Men usually come out on the short end of the stick in this exercise ... perhaps because women are the target of so much advertising.
Is it funny? Truly funny is when you don't beat a stereotype to death. For instance, the half-wits who can't cook, and have to have some fast food restaurant feed them? Funny? No, just plain awful. The incompentent husband who can't do the simpliest repairs? Why doesn't the wife try her hand? Not really funny either.
How about an ad about stupid ad people? Ah, that's right, who'd produce it but maybe ... Adbusters.
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MSM - Salon
[Read the article: More on Kucinich and impeachment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Folks, just face it, Salon.com has a good bit of the "MSM" in it. That is why centrist liberals like Joan Walsh run the site, and they hire centrist liberals like Alex Koppelman and Stephanie Zacharek to run various parts of the site. They are dying to be considered part of the very responsible media and thrill when they appear on CNN.
The Democratic leadership dropped the ball on Iraq, torture, eavesdropping, habeous corpus, political litmus tests for public jobs, etc. Then they let the clock run out, then they laugh at Kucinich for not knowing the ball game is almost over. Then they have journalists who DO NOT HAVE AN OPINION on impeachment. They have journalists who do not think an impeachment bill is newsworthy. And the person presenting it is a 'laughingstock' - like the majority of the population. (Check out the trival loads of crap that Koeppelman thinks is newsworthy each day.) And then they move on to other things.
And they even cite that Obama doesn't care either. Well, we can't possibly disagree with Saint Obama, can we? Ethanol? Support for the "Jewish" state? Vouchers? I could go on, but wait for all the hearts to be broken.
Bottom line is, even websites can go to the right, and you are watching one do it.
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Count
[Read the article: More on Kucinich and impeachment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... and all because they are very responsible liberals who can ... count.
Am I starting to sound like Greenwald here?
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Excellent Story
[Read the article: In Iraq to stay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Of course, Mr. Engelhardt always nails it. We have 700-800 bases worldwide, military personnel in 156 countries. What would a map of the world look like with Roman bases on it? U.S. bases?
It is our key strategy to control of the world. This, by the way, is the department of defense, and the Middle East, as Jimmy Carter noted, is on the 'front' lines of our defense.
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Overnights are a Frill
[Read the article: The FedEx economy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Overnight delivery is only really useful occasionally. However, I overnight continually (legal profession) because it is still cheap ($6.00 a package) via DHL. If this changes, the legal world will not fall apart, it will just slow down a bit. We don't really need it.
That said, it is very interesting to learn of the excellent strategy chosen by UPS. Fed Ex I'm sure is looking at the same choices now.
As to the 'oblivious' economist, Mr. Rootham, how can you actually 'project' through time without knowing oscillations? Cutting out two of the biggest sources of inflation, because they have short term fluctuations ignores the long term trend, or 'oscillation.' That is like failing to predict climate because the weather is variable.
Any real predictive system would take into account underlying trends. Food and fuel aren't the only inflation indicators our system's economists ignore. Health costs and college/secondary school costs are not tracked either, I don't think.
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I have to ask ...
[Read the article: Confessions of a salvia eater]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't want to use this stuff, but I have to ask - why do people have similar 'trips'? One guy just below said "no vines, no 'white' lady' etc. so it isn't everyone. Do people read about prior experiences, then they have the same one too when they finally try it?
Suggestion. Very odd. SHould be testable, certainly.
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Obama Moving to the Right Fast
[Read the article: Obama, telecoms and the Beltway system]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Scratch a 'progressive' Democrat, get a centrist/rightist in the bargain! An openness to vouchers, uncritical support of ethanol, support for the Likunik position on Isreael, now backing any rightist Democrat ... we are going to have a very long list before this election campaign is over.
Hope the Blue Dog gets knocked off.
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Thinking ahead ...
[Read the article: Gas prices and offshore drilling ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When I heat the house, and the price of natural gas is getting high, I just start burning the furniture!
Works for me. Now you may think I'm really short-sighted, because, after all, what am I going go eat off of, or sit on or sleep in?
Every heard of a FLOOR, douchebag? You @@##KING LEFTIST $#@%BAGS need an education!