Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 16
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skilled questioning?
[Read the article: Asked but not answered]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The problem with dodges is that I don't see how they can be evaded... 'skilled questioning?' Can someone lawyer-ly post an example?
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Not UNhistorical...
[Read the article: "Apocalypto"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I hate how every time a blockbuster movie comes out, educational TV channels clamor to air tie-ins... in 1997 there were all the Titanic documentaries, in the Summer of the Asteroid Movies there were breathless analyses of whether it could really happen... so I hate myself for asking, but I'd love to see an article on what was really going on at this time. The author mentions the 'watered down' remnants of Maya culture, and the rise of the Aztecs, but I'd love to read a brief lesson in what Jaguar Paw's world might really have been like. How about it, Salon?
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More like jolly ears
[Read the article: A stretch, even for Drudge]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They don't look like horns to me -- more like festive antlers or ears.
AP PHOTOGRAPHER GIVES BUSH JAUNTY EARS (exclusive must credit Sgothan)
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Hear no race See no race Speak no race
[Read the article: Colorblind]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am your white secular nightmare. I was educated in a very liberal but very privileged community and still bear strange bindings of that -- I am very uncomfortable calling someone Black or African-American, I blush when I have to say where my father works, and I feel a little uneasy when I look around the local coffee shop and see white, white, white. Steamed vanilla, no espresso, in this New England town. So when I found myself caught up in the Obama-mania I really had to check myself -- did I want so much for him to succeed partly because of White Guilt?
The kind of liberalism (and its concomitant White Guilt) that I was instilled with does not have a smarmy condescension to American Blacks, but it certainly is guilt-ridden. I've been told again and again what unfair advantages I've enjoyed; I've been indoctrinated that a company is not modern and responsible unless there are several races represented at the top. Overall I've been instilled with a deep regret that things aren't fair, and a desire to make things more so, little by little. The question is, is this kind of white guilt such a bad thing? I'm asking Ms. Dickerson, because I believe we're not ready to ignore race -- there's too much injustice just yet. But my WG assures me that I can't guess at what it's like to be Black in America.
Even if Obama is partly lifted up on the hot air of people's inflated good intentions, won't it still, truly, be a good thing if we finally have a president who breaks that old mold?
For myself, I've x-rayed myself and decided that I like Obama for reasons beyond the ideal of having just any black president. After all, Hillary annoys the &%$# out of me even though I'd love to vote for a woman some day. I just don't want any more lies wrapped in platitudes, and Obama seems thoughtful and GOOD. An inspiring leader that I craved without knowing it. We ought to some day stop the parade of doughy white males, but we need NOW to have a leader that will elevate our whole society.
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DD's next Everest
[Read the article: Colorblind]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I know this is a tall order, but I'd love to see Ms. Dickerson deal with something she touched on here -- that some of the inhabitants of that elusive and exclusive Black Culture seem to think that intellectualism and achievement is 'acting white.' Obviously she herself has been well educated and has done well, and I wonder if she is excluded anywhere because of that. But all of American society now devalues thoughtfulness, right? I mean, Bush is considered 'Authentic' because he's 'Folksy' (inarticulate) and 'Genuine' (inarticulate). Is it because people have internalized the right-wing caricature of the East Coast Intellectual Elitist?
Um... if anyone is offended by this post, I apologize, but I think it would make a very interesting article.
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Yikes
[Read the article: Airbrushing the baby]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I always wanted my baby to look like a cross between a CPR training dummy and Kelly Ripa!
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National security simulation?
[Read the article: House Republican blasts Obama as "that boy"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, I'm REALLY curious about this supposed top-secret weird thing. Sounds strange. Hope Salon can do some digging.
Interesting, too, that Davis says "that boy's finger" doesn't need to be on the button -- which is how one would criticize a doddering Reagan or a daffy-duck-spitting-mad McCain who'd be too quick to order a strike. I think if anything, Obama's finger would be pretty damn far from the button, and maybe more towards the diplomacy lever or the sanctions dial.
Finally, it's been said before many times, but I find this afterapologies thing hilarious. "You're a dickwad! No offense." Does his apology mean he takes back the entire comment about Obama? I rather think not.