Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 21 Editor's Choice: 4
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Frontline's "Sex Slaves"
[Read the article: "They didn't see us as humans"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Heather, where can we find this production? Is it only on Frontline or is it posted somewhere?
Thanks for bringing attention to this very important issue.
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Follow up to my last post
[Read the article: "They didn't see us as humans"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The show is on PBS on Tuesday, Feb 7th - check local listings. Here's the web site: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/slaves/
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Sorry, the article needs to be pulled
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]King, I know you thought this was a good article, it passed your editor, got published and was already recieving responses... but I've noticed you commited a minor infraction for offensive pass interference. You'll have to pull the entire article and try writing it again. This is a non-reviewable call, by the way. Hey, that's the breaks.
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Geez, Steph... feeling a little cynical?
[Read the article: "Eight Below"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From reading your article, one might presume you've gotten a little jaded. Hate the human actors, love the animal actors? Is it possible you're tried of watching humans play pretend in front of the camera?
It's understandable. You just don't see dogs acting self absorbed and arrogant the way humans actors do.
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Stevelaw nailed it
[Read the article: I hate your column and all the letter writers too!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But he said it a lot nicer than me. The first Cary Tennis articles I read made me think "Hmm, what a bunch of wimpy girly-man pseudometrosexual pap. This guy won't last long." Every time I've seen a new article posted by Cary I think "Geez, he's still here?" I've read him a couple times just to see if he's improved. He hasn't. I will read the letters some times for the laugh value, but never the advice.
It's bothered me a lot that Salon maintains King Kaufman, who writes the most trite sports column in existence. How wonderful it would be to have a really bright and different sports writer! Cary is even worse than trite - he doesn't even register on my radar. I don't even bother pining ffor a good advice columnist, because I don't notice the one who's there now. Oh for the Salon on yore!
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DC Confidential
[Read the article: Fleischer: Libby told me about Plame "on the q.t."]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The terminology "Hush hush" and "On the QT" is the same terminology Danny Devito's character used in the 1997 movie "LA Confidential". Devito played a writer for a gossip paper called "Hush Hush", and would read lurid stories in voice over, concluding each story with the phrase "Off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush." This may be what Libby was referencing when he used this particular phraseology, and this is perhaps why Fleischer interpreted the item as "newsy".
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A Prairie Home Ingenue
[Read the article: The sorrows of fame]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but I wonder if GK's advice is aimed at one of his recent costars. If so, good for you, GK, for providing some genteel advice to someone who is lacking a decent paternal example to follow, and apparently idolizes you.
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Move on from MoveOn
[Read the article: A MoveOn push poll?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I quit MoveOn a week after I joined back in 2003, sickened by precisely this kind of doubletalk and intellectual dishonesty.
Someday there will be a terrific political organization which does a great job of representing critical thinkers with a social mindset. MoveOn doesn't fit the bill.
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Consider this as well...
[Read the article: A MoveOn push poll?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Quote from a previous letter: "When the GOP unites 100% behind a man who will go down in history as the worst American President ever (is their much doubt at this point?), give him blank checks, block any and all oversight, defend policies after they have already failed...
Is their anything more iritating than Democrats who can't just make a decision and unite together to fight?"
Answer: Yes, there is something more irritating - people who insist that you must suspend your own decisionmaking and allow a political party to think for you by proxy. Maybe instead of emulating the Republican's lockstep phalanx of personality, the best way to oppose is to swim against the current. Demonstrate that an American need not choose to label themselves as Democrat or Republican, but rather as individuals. Falling in line behind yet another hysterical and misinformed organization just encourages the proliferation of hysterical and misinformed government.