Letters to the Editor
vaporland
Published Letters: 221 Editor's Choice: 6
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you've got ALL it wrong
[Read the article: Grand Theft misogyny]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]GTA4 is a about violent fantasy world, period. You can kill hookers. You can kill drug dealers and arms merchants and innocent pedestrians. You can drive drunk, You can steal cars.
It's an immersive virtual world and it's the wave of the future of entertainment - video games already make more money than movies do... It's not any more misogynist than everyday American Life.
Here's a NEWS FLASH: Americans have a totally sick culture! Video games and movies and TV are a reflection of this. It's precisely why I don't have a TV, watch few movies, only play Ms. Pac Man.
That being said, I doubt many people, male or female, become sexually aroused while playing GTA4 - no more people (percentage-wise) than those who physically get off watching 'Showtime Teasers' on cable TV or jerk off in Second Life.
Get real - you want misogyny? Do a story about women who are working for subcontractors or are in the military in Iraq and suffering from sexual harassment.
Seriously, with all the 'real crime' and scummy shit going on in the world, can't we get worked up over something else?
Do you want GTA4 restricted? Taken off of the market? Where will it end? Shortly after we prohibit this, we'll be prohibiting "Harold and Kumar Go To Guantanamo Bay" because it criticizes the government and glorifies drug use.
After all, 'they' don't stop Netflix from renting you 'Taxi Driver' because you might be aroused by seeing Jodie Foster as a 13 year old hooker. Not yet, anyway...
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laugh out loud funny
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]my hot toddy squirted out my nose, I laughed so hard . . .
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It's all about the page hits:
[Read the article: Obama is wrong about the gas tax]
[Read more letters about this article: Here](1) have hack writer write trolling, pandering article...
(2) draw increased web traffic from angry liberals who post comments...
(3) PROFIT!
Believing that the left is immune from manipulation for profit is like believing that the Christians are stealing your money at the collection plate, but new age gurus have your best interests at heart...
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this has got to be the lamest website ever:
[Read the article: CNN, the Pentagon's "military analyst program" and Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://shepgroup.com/index.html
Major General Shepperd needs to spend some of that cost-plus contract money on a new webmaster....
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What should Hillary Clinton do now?
[Read the article: What should Hillary Clinton do now?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Quit.
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Sorry, Reagan really sucked
[Read the article: Why Ronald Reagan didn't completely suck]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All the recent 'retro-Reagan' reminisces are delusional.
I remember the Reagan era very well - I was in my 20s - and I never voted for him, never respected him, never liked the man at all.
Ketchup became a vegetable. Ollie North became a 'hero'. Mentally ill people became 'mainstreamed'. Homeless people became commonplace.
Machiavelli was Mr. Rogers compared to Lee Atwater. David Stockman made Ebeneezer Scrooge look like Monty Hall. Next to Edwin Meese, Alberto Gonzales is Chief Justice John Marshall.
Nancy Reagan's photo-ops at food banks didn't go over well because she kept showing up in designer clothes. When athlete Len Bias OD'd on crack, the "war on drugs" was taken to a whole new level so Nancy could have photo-ops at crack house raids instead.
Property seizures for personal use possession of marijuana became the new vogue in law enforcement. Subcontracting and privatizing government services resulted in profiteering and unaccountability which persists to this day.
A lot of people suffered because of Reagan's policies, and a lot of people died. Nancy Reagan had the nerve (for example) to label casual drug users as accessories to murder, even as Reagan's support of fascist dictatorships helped thousands of South Americans to 'disappear'. The School of the Americas educated right wing death squads to become efficient killing machines.
And, by the way, he didn't win the cold war either - the Soviet system crumbled from within.
If his picture is going to be on any US currency, how about the $3 bill?
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Actually, I think PetSmart would be more appropriate
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]because it would be more on his intellectual level, but this was very very good...
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clean coal = radiation free plutonium
[Read the article: Celebrate clean coal, come on!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In other words, don't hold your breath. Then again, if the idea catches on, you WILL need to hold your breath, indefinitely!
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Crichton used to be good...
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...until, like Stephen King, he kept repeating himself. The preachy anti-environmentalism is just tired.
Remaking Andromeda Strain is like remaking Star Trek: The Motion Picture -- what's the point?
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They're just getting warmed up...
[Read the article: Blacklisted by the Bush government]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...wait until membership in the NRA or PETA or ACLU is considered 'supporting terrorism'.
Then, everyone whose debit card was ever used to make a donation will be subject to neo-judicial surveillance and blacklisting.
Fahrenheit 451 indeed. . . . at what temperature does plastic burn?
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no good movies available for streaming?
[Read the article: Roku's $99 Netflix box: Easy, cheap, fast movies?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]AND you pay $99? If they were going to credit me 10 months of service, I could MAYBE see it.
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as long as...
[Read the article: Big Pharma and the bullies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the Chinese pills aren't coated with lead...
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since you can now be locked up for being ignorant
[Read the article: Teen Alex Phillips puts girlfriend's nude shots on MySpace: Child porn?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]does that mean we can incarcerate G.W. Bush?
PS - his profile on "cellmates.com" will no doubt have the same caption he provided about his ex: "see how big her hole is! Its from me!"
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@lonewolfy
[Read the article: Teen Alex Phillips puts girlfriend's nude shots on MySpace: Child porn?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First! (great minds run in the same gutter!)
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@WashDCMan...
[Read the article: Playing soldier]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...perhaps we should have designated areas of protest, within which protest is allowed, and disallow it everywhere else?
I would even wager that there is an open field near, oh let's say, Guantanamo Bay, which could be the approved national protest area where we could send everyone else in the United States who wants to protest anything.
I am sure that the Founding Fathers, who were the ones who originally started this whole "dying for your country" thing, would approve wholeheartedly, and this way, all the whiners could cross the street unimpeded.
In all honesty, I am severely annoyed by loud Harleys. I am surprised that anyone from the military would want to associate with Mr. Bush, considering that he has used enlisted men and women like Shake & Bake bags while lining the pockets of his cronies with the spoils of war.
BUT - a lot of those guys did hard time in Vietnam and afterwards, and a lot of other vets only have a park bench to ride, so they are welcome to block my way anytime.
In my opinion, they've earned the right to at least that much.
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one more thing, WashDCMan
[Read the article: Playing soldier]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you have about as much in common with the 'greatest generation' as shit does with Shinola...