Letters to the Editor
jdsmith
Published Letters: 15 Editor's Choice: 1
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Oh, fuck me
[Read the article: For Harry Potter fans about to rock, we salute you]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bring back AudioFile.
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Diction error
[Read the article: The three stooges]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Stooge means "idiot lackey." Cheney is nobody's "stooge." He is the boss. If anybody is the thrid stooge, it's Bush--although Cheny treats the rest of America as if we are all his stooges.
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Where do I get "Franny and Alexander"?
[Read the article: Beyond the Multiplex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bergman does Salinger! Wow!
(Or did he already do it and call it Hannah and Her Sisters?)
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A misunderstanding of what critics do
[Read the article: "The Bourne Ultimatum"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If they are worth a damn, critics hardly ever tell you if they "liked" or "disliked" a work. Critics' job is to describe in such detail that you know what the film (or book, or television show, or and-so-on) is about and how the artist approaches the topic aesthetically. If you need a consumer guide, you can use criticism, but you have to put in some effort of your own when you approach the critics.
BUT, if you are looking for a thumbs-up, thumbs-down reduction and learn that 92% (92%!) of reviewers approve, you might want to give the movie a chance.
(How can you mistake Zacharek's review for anything less than kudos?)
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P.S. I am not a republican.
[Read the article: Cheerful boos for Hillary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Poco: One word in the following sarcastic sentence belies that claim.
"Not one story about the amazingly effective democrat congress."
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yay! Now he'll be gone, like Karen Hughes was gone, forever and ever
[Read the article: Karl Rove to resign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And he'll be so happy to see his wife and kid that he'll never, ever show up on CNN to "discuss" politics.
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You knows he's snickering about this
[Read the article: Remembering Karl Rove]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He thinks that he got away with it.
Deep in his heart, perhaps he thinks that, since he's getting out unindicted, he's a winner.
Somebody should remind him, though: no matter how much a myth he was or is or ever will be, he's no Lee Atwater.
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Oh
[Read the article: Gore for the Nobel? How about Petraeus?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So that's where the Weekly World News reporters are working now.
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So. Does somebody have something he'd like to say about the Coens?
[Read the article: TV Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I mean, something that's coherent.
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"female John McCain supporter"
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Linda Burke, of Hilton Head, SC.
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Where's Thadeus Crumb's apology?
[Read the article: "The Golden Compass"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]End of message.
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"The only points he scores are with Brave New World and 1984--both of which were novels."
[Read the article: "We're all fascists now"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What has the genre of those works to do with their usefulness in supporting or rejecting arguments?
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Here's an idea
[Read the article: Clinton has "Girlfriend posse" to thank?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's put Marianne Pernold Young and Linda Burke--the woman from Hilton Head, SC, who asked McCain how to beat "the bitch"--into the same coffee shop this time.
(Why have shitty little restaurants become the Marketplace of Democracy?)
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"The fug of complacency"
[Read the article: The battle of the literary endorsements]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Laura Miller's typo is as inadvertently brilliant as Maya Angleou's (in)famous "dried tokens of their passing."
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Well said, Blue Bunny
[Read the article: What I really wanted to say to Chris Matthews]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am surprised that more people don't get the point that Michelman inadvertently makes: that you should not expect a do-over if you are a grossly inept feminist (or anti-war, or civil rights) pundit.
"I didn't expect Chris Matthews to be so mean to me"? Fucking terrific.