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  • Oi this again?

    [Read the article: If McCain wins, should we all move to Scandinavia?]
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    We're leaving for Canada, we're leaving for Denmark.

    Really? Well you'd better crank up the lawyers right now because those liberal paradises aren't very easy to gain citizenship from unless you're a refugee from some hell hole in the sands. And they are fantastically expensive and unreasonable for noncitzens to live and work there. It's pretty damned hard to simply go the Canada and assert your right to work and live there. It's incredibly expensive for noncitizens to live in Norway, pay all their taxes and accrue zero of their social welfare benefits.

    Seriously if you plan on expatriating, try Portugal, Brazil, Uruguay. And consider that the moment you file to gain citizenship to another country or leave your US citizenship the IRS will attempt to sue you in tax court.

  • Too bad letter writers are so stupid

    [Read the article: Ericsson says global mobile market is "flattish" in 2009]
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    In most of the world, erecting cell phone towers is MUCH MUCH cheaper than trying to string cables. That's why cell phone growth is exploding in poor-er countries or countries with inhospitable geography. In Chile and Brazil there probably a hundred cell phones per land line. Brazil is even experimenting with cell phone blimps to replace towers.

    So yes, the growth in the south, e.g that 10th of the earth's surface where more poor people live, is actually bolstering cell phone markets.

  • Well at any rate he's a useful distraction to the fringe

    [Read the article: Say it ain't so, Joe!]
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    The fringe, I mean the Salon/Kos Fringe loves to hate. So it's a good thing they have someone to stick their hate to. Otherwise they'd be marching around with giant puppets protesting cruelty against Tofu or whatnot.

  • I stopped watching opinion parading as news a long time ago.

    [Read the article: The secret to Rachel Maddow's ratings success]
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    Watching other people rail and rant and rave is like watching other people play cards. I'd rather watch House.

  • Not buying it

    [Read the article: Main Street's body count rises]
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    In 2001 with the day trader implosion, people typically killed themselves or sometimes their broker. Not their whole families. There is something else at play here. People don't wake up one day and morph into family exterminators. Not over money.

  • I voted early in NC, Wake county

    [Read the article: Where the GOP could get dirty]
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    And it went very very smoothly. I know volunteer workers at the polls and no one mentioned anomalies in Wake. The lines weren't long either. I suspect one of the open questions is the fact the Guilford went blue in 2004 by 1800 votes. It happens to be the third largest voting county in the state, after Mecklenberg (Blue) and Wake (Red).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_North_Carolina,_2004

  • Of course in Sweden, citizens, men at any rate are DRAFTED

    [Read the article: If McCain wins, should we all move to Scandinavia?]
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    Sure it's 'neutral' country e.g. they only sold weapons to the Nazis, they didn't fire them, but none the less you youngsters would get conscripted.

    Bummer, dude.

  • and yet if all the Jews packed up an moved to Israel

    [Read the article: If McCain wins, should we all move to Scandinavia?]
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    You'd brand them all as traitors. Germanic countries Good. Jews Bad! Welcome to Henry Ford's Salon.com.

  • Yeah I think these are badly crazy people who would have done something like this anyhow

    [Read the article: Main Street's body count rises]
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    It's convenient to brand it with the stigma of financial failure but again, it's pretty unusual for middle class family men to commit mass murder over money especially on their own family. You see that sort of thing with Andrea Yates, cultists and such.

  • Palin pisses off feminists because

    [Read the article: Rrrowr!]
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    After fighting for a hundred years for equality, the most high profile result of that effort is someone diametrically opposed to everything they stand for. Like a Black member of the skinheads.

  • Really?

    [Read the article: How real Americans dress]
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    She looks like shit for someone who spent THAT MUCH on clothes. Seriously. I could have a closet of custom hand made suits, silk shorts and underwear, and a personal tailor and valet for that much money.

  • Again though, Obama is running a great effort in NC

    [Read the article: Where the GOP could get dirty]
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    They have called multiple times. They offer to drive you to one stop early voting or election day voting. They leave their name and number for you to contact them. I have received zero calls from McCain.

  • you'd be alternately laughing and screaming if

    [Read the article: Muxlim Pal to be world's first Muslim-themed virtual world]
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    this was an American Christian fundamentalist VW. Just be clear.

  • I thought the Bible Belt was

    [Read the article: McCain: Western Pa. "most God-loving, most patriotic part of America"]
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    I live there and the people here seem to believe that.

  • the secret?

    [Read the article: The secret to Rachel Maddow's ratings success]
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    the same as any other Op-Ed talking head. It says the words you'd hoped to say yourself. It agrees with everything you think is most brilliant about your own opinions.

  • And when someone says

    [Read the article: If McCain wins, should we all move to Scandinavia?]
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    If Obama wins Ima get me some guns an start a revolution! They're branded as a kook.

  • Neither

    [Read the article: Go ahead, jump on the bandwagon]
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    I just like to see small market teams have a shot once in a while. Plus, fuck the Blowsox.

  • My HVAC guy just went to jail

    [Read the article: "I'm Joe the Plumber"]
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    For stealing other people's central AC units and selling them as discounted upgrades to other people.

  • I was hoping she'd wear a seal skin coat and mukluks

    [Read the article: How real Americans dress]
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    And jewelry made out of baleen and antlers and shit.

  • Well then let's just give them their houses for free then

    [Read the article: Main Street's body count rises]
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    Free housing for everyone. Can't pay? claim it's made you depressed then you get a house a for free. Awesome.

  • I'm moving

    [Read the article: If McCain wins, should we all move to Scandinavia?]
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    To DirtyHippyPotSmokistan where everything is free, dude.

  • No it means that there's two kinds of voters

    [Read the article: What ever happened to vote pairing?]
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    Fringe extremists like Freepers and Salonocrats. And the great middle of rational people. If you want to vote McKinney just save yourself the pity and run around in a clown suit high on PCP.

  • sounds like acceptable hate

    [Read the article: Should we worry about the fat vote?]
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    The people we hate, are all fat. Their kids will be fat too so it's ok to hate them. Not because they're fat but because they're Republicans. Fat (White) Republicans.

  • That is gayer than Tom Cruise in Top Gun

    [Read the article: Photo of the day]
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    just for the record.

  • She looks like shit for 150K

    [Read the article: Sarah Palin, $150,000 fashionista]
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    I would be carried in to events by a team of naked temple prostitutes for that much cash.

  • My god it must make your pointed heads explode

    [Read the article: The Wal-Mart recession]
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    Lower class people chosing to break ranks with the Revolution and shopping at Wal*Mart because they have to? By all that is sacred we can't allow that. Next thing you know the proles will figure out we're nothing but fools in GREEN overalls.

  • The blogaratti are generally wrong about everything

    [Read the article: The punditocracy's Seven Biggest Blunders of the 2008 election]
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    Their job is essentially to BE wrong about everything. Why? Because having angry shithead opinions is what keeps their equally stupid readership coming back for more. Anything else would be like giving away fine wine in a crackhouse.

    Don't forget, morons:

    a)

    We're absotively going to bomb Iran tomorrow. No really we mean it this time. This time we're right and those other 1700 times we weren't wrong either.

    b)

    There won't BE an election. Bush will invoke Martial Law.

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