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jdsmith

Published Letters: 15     Editor's Choice: 1

  • Oh, fuck me

    [Read the article: For Harry Potter fans about to rock, we salute you]
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    Bring back AudioFile.

  • Diction error

    [Read the article: The three stooges]
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    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.

  • Where do I get "Franny and Alexander"?

    [Read the article: Beyond the Multiplex]
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    Bergman does Salinger! Wow!

    (Or did he already do it and call it Hannah and Her Sisters?)

  • A misunderstanding of what critics do

    [Read the article: "The Bourne Ultimatum"]
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    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?)

  • P.S. I am not a republican.

    [Read the article: Cheerful boos for Hillary]
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    Poco: One word in the following sarcastic sentence belies that claim.

    "Not one story about the amazingly effective democrat congress."

  • yay! Now he'll be gone, like Karen Hughes was gone, forever and ever

    [Read the article: Karl Rove to resign]
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    And he'll be so happy to see his wife and kid that he'll never, ever show up on CNN to "discuss" politics.

  • You knows he's snickering about this

    [Read the article: Remembering Karl Rove]
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    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.

  • Oh

    [Read the article: Gore for the Nobel? How about Petraeus?]
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    So that's where the Weekly World News reporters are working now.

  • So. Does somebody have something he'd like to say about the Coens?

    [Read the article: TV Daily]
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    I mean, something that's coherent.

  • "female John McCain supporter"

    [Read the article: Quote of the day]
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    Linda Burke, of Hilton Head, SC.

  • Where's Thadeus Crumb's apology?

    [Read the article: "The Golden Compass"]
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    End of message.

  • "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"]
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    What has the genre of those works to do with their usefulness in supporting or rejecting arguments?

  • Here's an idea

    [Read the article: Clinton has "Girlfriend posse" to thank?]
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    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?)

  • "The fug of complacency"

    [Read the article: The battle of the literary endorsements]
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    Laura Miller's typo is as inadvertently brilliant as Maya Angleou's (in)famous "dried tokens of their passing."

  • Well said, Blue Bunny

    [Read the article: What I really wanted to say to Chris Matthews]
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    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.