Letters to the Editor
Quiet Type
Published Letters: 698 Editor's Choice: 32
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@ciccina
[Read the article: I'm a sexually active woman, but my Christian parents treat me like a child]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, if your reading is correct, I'd say then that she should visit the parents without the boyfriend altogether, and just make it a short, perfunctory type visit.
There'll be plenty of in-law obligation to fulfill once they get married; why get into the unpleasantness now?
LW isn't the first woman in her 20s to feel infantilized by her parents when she's around them. She should leave her boyfriend out of the familial drama so it doesn't wind up creeping into their relationship (until it has to, when marriage rolls around).
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I don't like her; I really don't like her.
[Read the article: Fox muzzles Sally Field]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Look, if you want to use an awards show to protest the war (something I wish there'd been more of), then have a brain about it. Sally Field should know what Fox is; she should also have calculated that saying "goddam" would provide the network with the perfect excuse to bleep her. (I have no idea if they would have bleeped her without it, and now none of us will ever know; the point is that she is politically dumb as a tack.)
At any rate, with or without the "goddam," she came off as off her nut,out of control, and silly as hell (reference the other letters pointing out some pretty aggressive female leaders past and present).
But my biggest beef is that she's a so-so actress who should have handed her Emmy to Edie Falco.
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Fly the grumpy skies
[Read the article: Southwest: Skimpy fares to match your miniskirt!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm pretty sure Southwest has not stranded its passengers on the tarmac for hours without food, water, fresh air or toilets. I know for a fact their on-time record is fabulous, their lost luggage rate is low, their prices are the best, and they've expanded their service to lots and lots of cities so that lots and lots of us can climb aboard.
So in more than 20 years they've made a misstep or two, and an employee made too big a deal out of some slutty woman's attire, she's running all the way to the bigtime with it, and now they're giving the rest of the customers a break with lower airfare and some groaner puns.
How despicable!
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@Funme2
[Read the article: Fox muzzles Sally Field]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"You all will never understand, will you? Opposition to war does not require your approval of its methods. Or your so sanctimonious approach and comments. War sucks. This war sucks. Sally Field's words and actions are so superior to our commander-in-chief's words and actions that your comments rank below hers, in my humble opinion. I mean that."
Uh, Funme? You DO realize the viewers never even heard her superior words, don't you? Pretty wise method, huh.
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Re: Smurfie's multipal spelling eras
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Gramar" is the tipp of the iceburg.
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@anonymous
[Read the article: Fox muzzles Sally Field]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Uh, Quiet Type? You DO realize millions of people around the world heard her superior words, don't you? And millions more are going to now hear them via YouTube? Millions who wouldn't have cared but will be curious now because she got cut off? Pretty wise method, huh?
Oh, I forgot. USA TV VIEWERS=THE SUM CONTENT OF THE UNIVERSE"
I'm so excited. Sally Field has ended the war.
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Why it's so hard to care about Kerry
[Read the article: Kerry responds to Taser incident]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Kerry's response sums up why it's just so damn hard to like the guy. Every sentence is "I." Nothing from the kid's or the viewer's point of view, or principle, or outrage, and the only "regret" he can muster is from his head, not his heart.
He is just totally lacking in the connection department. Word to any wise Democratic candidate: Learn from this.
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E-mail is the devil.
[Read the article: I sent a nasty text about my boss ... to my boss!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is there a computer-using person anywhere who hasn't gotten into some kind of trouble using e-mail? Writing something humorously, but the recipient taking it literally. Getting angry at a friend because you think they're ignoring you (or vice versa). Sending something at work the recipient finds offensive. Annoying people with too many forwards. Forgetting to include someone in a group e-mail who needed the info more than anybody. And the uncountable misinterpretations due to the absence of tone, facial expression, body language, etc., even the poorly placed commas that completely change meaning --all requiring follow-up phone calls anyway.
E-mail be trouble!
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Try again.
[Read the article: Alicia Silverstone's naked PETA ad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cheap generic soft-porn attention-getter that annoys serious females and leaves the male viewers with not the slightest idea what she was even saying. Way to be taken seriously, PETA.
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Isn't this show off the air yet?
[Read the article: Bush's stairway to paradise]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I know we're talking about George Bush here, but why does Tony Soprano keep flashing in front of my eyes?
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Reporters get Ds
[Read the article: "I'm the C student, and just look at who's the president"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This morning we got from Bush exactly what we should expect from Bush: Bush. What I find utterly frustrating, utterly infuriating, is the media's willingness to be friendly with this man. I saw the news conference, and what your written log isn't able to depict were the amiable smiles and jolly chuckles from the reporters. SICKENING!!!
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@jmCatter
[Read the article: The return of Karl Rove]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"What is TAKING so long? Can someone please just hurry up and reveal whatever secret sex crime Karl Rove is surely guilty of so that he can go away already? There's gotta be SOME prostitute, male or female, or inbetween, or SOME child he's chatted with on the internet that could come forward so we can all be put out of our misery? Please?"
The bad news: You won't get Rove until you've caught him with Bush. The good news: You'll have gotten a two-for-one.
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@pacificwhim - my lowered journalistic expectations
[Read the article: "I'm the C student, and just look at who's the president"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Confrontation and street-fighter journalism at news conferences?? Sounds like a wonderful dream -- but, hell, at this point I'd settle for throat-clearing and poker faces.
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Photoshop is his friend
[Read the article: Bush's stairway to paradise]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You know what the really sad thing about this well-written article is? Were Bush to visit the Salon site, he'd see himself on Mt. Rushmore, decree that even the leftiest liberals have come around to seeing how brilliant he is, never even click on the text, and sleep with an even bigger smile on his face.
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Tweak it:
[Read the article: Congratulations! Your marriage has expired ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fine, but in the first 7 years, renew it EVERY year. That might cut down on all the children being born into miserable, dead-end marriages.