Letters to the Editor
Margalis
Published Letters: 614 Editor's Choice: 16
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She won't respond Yossarian
[Read the article: Another blog?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You think Joan is going to bother reading and *gasp* responding to comments? Obviously you aren't paying attention.
What was it? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...well you won't fool me twice!
I'd love to be proven wrong but Walsh appears far too cowardly to defend her editorial decisions. I suspect in the end the answer is just "Camille provides page views" and there isn't any way to say that without looking like a sellout.
Seriously what are you expecting? "We value her insight!" LOL.
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A lot of companies don't *want* PhDs
[Read the article: No contradiction in engineering gap data]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Most of the PhDs we interview are unsuitable for any work outside of the highly theoretical. Many of them have no real hands-on skills. A PhD on a resume is almost a red flag.
They aren't good at getting things done themselves and they aren't good at managing people. Yes this is a broad generalization but one that holds true for a large percentage of PhDs.
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If she doesn't know the source...
[Read the article: Follow-up to this morning's post re: Chris Matthews Show]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...then how does she know that "some people" are saying it?
What kind of logic is it that you can't have a job if your wife has cancer?
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Gerry you are simply not correct
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Liberalism gave us multiple generations of welfare dependency and children growing up without fathers. It gave us rampant sexually transmitted diseases and abortion for any reason or no reason.
Bob Barr's wife had two abortions IIRC. He is about as conservative as you can get. You are simply using "liberalism" as a generic term for whatever ails you.
Children growing up without fathers has nothing to do with liberals or conservatives, it has to do with certain subcultures. Your later arguments are a red-herring - even if policies encourage mother and father to not get married that isn't the same as encouraging the father to run off and father another child by someone else while ignoring his previous children.
"Liberalism" is not the same as "moral decay."
Liberalism gave us a debased culture where teens defy their teachers and feel free to wear clothing with "fuck you" on it because, after all, we're all to "express" ourselves without regard to propriety or anyone else's feelings.
How often do you actually see that? I can't remember ever seeing anyone wearing a "Fuck You" shirt. It certainly isn't common.
Liberalism gave us movies that glorify rape, death and dismemberment, all in the name of "free expression."
Is Dirty Harry a liberal movie or a conservative movie? How about Total Recall? What about Charles Bronson movies in the 80s where he would slaughter scores of typical liberal thugs/hippies? Were those liberal movies? Is 300 a liberal movie? How about old John Wayne movies. Would you call those liberal?
Liberalism gave us politics by grievance group and a culture of permanent anger over every perceived slight...
Isn't anger over perceived slights exactly what your entire letter is about?
Already, liberalism has silenced citizens from speaking about politics, issues or candidates within certain time restrictions of a primary or general election, again in the name of "good government." (It's really nothing but an incumbent-protection racket.)
Silencing citizens is somethings conservatives don't do? LOL.
Liberalism has given us the nanny state where people helplessly wait for the government to do things for them that they rightly should be doing for themselves--like raising their own children, earning a living, etc.
None of the conservatives in Washington have nannies? None of the lower-class conservatives in middle America are on welfare or disability?
Your entire letter simply uses "liberal" as a proxy for things you don't like, most of which are shared behaviors and some of which are actually more true of conservatives.
You didn't include a single actual fact or argument.
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You had me until
[Read the article: Men who hate women on the Web]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And at Salon, we have been promising better tools to moderate and control our letters and comments; we will finally be rolling them out in the days and weeks to come (not as a reaction to the Sierra situation; it's just coincidence that we're on the verge of having some features ready we promised readers months ago). We will also start to take a tougher line on serial abusers, deleting more posts that are simply ad hominem, or feminem, attacks.
I look forward to all my letters about Camille Paglia being deleted.
You know, because for Camille Paglia to call someone "fagged-out" in an Salon piece is fine and dandy but to call Camille and idiot - why that's just uncivilized!
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Fagged out
[Read the article: Men who hate women on the Web]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Urban dictionary: To wear gay symbols on clothing or jewelry, or to place gay symbols such as freedom rings, stickers, gay pride parade beads or bumbers stickers in/on your vehicle.
Now in the context of John Edward's hair, do you think "fagged out" means looking like a fag, or does it mean the other definition of "tired, exhausted, physically exhausted."? Tough one. His hair makes him look...really tired? (From like, brushing it a lot or something???)
What Camille meant is that John Edward has hair like fag. (Whatever that means) Don't try to spin it some other way.