Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 655 Editor's Choice: 32
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How do we beat idiots who fall for this?
[Read the article: Clinton, McCain and the B-word]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And I would like to add that the "female supporter" who came up with this guaranteed news grabber most certainly was not a party plant, and McCain's response most certainly was not well-rehearsed, and the jock-ular "ex-wife" guy most certainly was just a funny little spontaneity.
How did journalists get so DUMB as to fall for all this canned, manipulated tripe? Colbert, mon frere, where are you? He would have seen in one second flat the calculated theatre of this: Put the Hillary putdown in the mouth of a woman so a man can't be accused of calling her it; have McCain agree in his silent, wink-wink indulgent-dad kind of way; then put a cherry on type with a party joke called out by the drunk at the bar.
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How do we beat idiots who fall for this?
[Read the article: Clinton, McCain and the B-word]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And I would like to add that the "female supporter" who came up with this guaranteed news grabber most certainly was not a party plant, and McCain's response most certainly was not well-rehearsed, and the jock-ular "ex-wife" guy most certainly was just a funny little spontaneity.
How did journalists get so DUMB as to fall for all this canned, manipulated tripe? Colbert, mon frere, where are you? He would have seen in one second flat the calculated theatre of this: Put the Hillary putdown in the mouth of a woman so a man can't be accused of calling her it; have McCain agree in his silent, wink-wink indulgent-dad kind of way; then put a cherry on type with a party joke called out by the drunk at the bar.
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This is ANTI?
[Read the article: Pro-life doesn't mean unsexy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I haven't seen the ad itself, so maybe that's why I'm confused by the description. Is the actual message being communicated:
1) My parents were going to abort me since it was legal and all, but they changed their minds. But I got born and grew up and now I can look all sexy in this t-shirt so that a bunch of random guys will want to knock me up. I'm using birth control, but hey, just in case.... YAY Roe v. Wade!
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2) I've already had an abortion, and instead of having to have some dangerous illegal procedure, I was able to go to real medical people so today I'm alive and healthy. YAY Roe v. Wade!
Either way, this t-shirt makes Roe v. Wade looks pretty good.
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Get old-fashioned; hold his hand.
[Read the article: I'm in love with my bandmate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's impossible to give useful advice without knowing the age of this LW. She uses the phrase "teenage crush," so if she's a teenager, she needs to stop torturing herself by going out one-on-one with him and find someone her own age.
If she's "old enough," then she's old enough to take hold of his hand while they're walking somewhere, and see if he likes it or gets flinchy about it.
The "let's do some real kissing" sounds like a cool approach if both the LW and the guy were the more outgoing type, but they both seem kind of restrained and it could turn out pretty awkward.
Should be interesting to find out what's up with this guy. The only similar situations I know of, where there were years of friendship followed by spending some time together, turned out to be just friendship, with the guy just wanting someone he's comfortable with to do things with. I am kind of puzzled why the LW included no background on this guy's romantic status, unless she doesn't know it -- which is kind of strange given all the time they spend together.
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Beautiful smokescreen
[Read the article: I can't stand losing my beauty as I age!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All this self-doubt and anxiety, coming right against the LW's upcoming second marriage. I wonder if LW's real angst is the wedding, but for some reason she can't bring herself to admit that. So it's all being channeled into this free-floating stuff about her own beauty and others'.
Just wondering, because something seems kind of off here. I would think someone excited to be getting married and happy about a new life with her loving man wouldn't be obsessing about the reactions of the world of strangers. Is the real issue that her husband-to-be isn't cherishing her enough?
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Maureen, I barely knew ye.
[Read the article: Debating Clinton's datability]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You know, it was only a couple of years ago that I sent Maureen O'Dowd a gushing e-mail, praising her relentless exposure of Bush and his buddies and what they were doing to this country.
Then she started writing prissy, trivial, apparently sexuality-obsessed columns like this, and I really started to wonder if there was something wrong with her. It was starting to seem like she would say nearly anything that was in service to her love of her own wordplay (and maybe to her sexual issues?).
I stopped reading her a least a year ago, not without regret. The woman is capable of so much more than she has become.
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Colbert to the rescue
[Read the article: What you missed while watching "Project Runway"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wish they'd put these "debates" on Comedy Channel and let Stephen Colbert moderate. I'll take his truthiness over Wolf's pointlessness any day. (And Michael Scherer's synopses would be twice as funny.)
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@Chaostician - a tweak or two
[Read the article: Goodbye, "Decider." Hello, "Mr. Interrupter"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I think he said exactly what he meant. He didn't say he disapproves of his strategy- he disapproves of Iraq, the country itself. It is hot, dusty and violent. Iraq's people are insufficiently grateful to GWB for imposing his special blend of democracy, terror, torture and fear. He probably still resents their failure to have WMDs too. He disapproves of Iraq, and he's going to take whatever steps are necessary to eliminate it."
You could substitute "United States" everywhere you wrote "Iraq" and this would be just as true.
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Beam Scotty Up
[Read the article: Did Bush ask Scott McClellan to lie -- or didn't he?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This parade of GOP toadies (starting with Ken Starr) ho are now thinking it over and deciding they might have made a boo-boo after all, can mean only one thing: The Rapture really IS at hand.
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End times.
[Read the article: What you missed while watching "Chad Vader"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wouldn't you think all that manly Christian passion all cleaved together on one stage would have generated the Rapture by now? Is there another one of these blessed pageants scheduled? If so, maybe they could work in a levitating through the ceiling thing and make it worth watching (so Michael Scherer doesn't have to).