Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 646 Editor's Choice: 32
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Thrilled.
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You know, it takes a sports guy to write so entertainingly about marketing. I've been reading plenty of commercial post-mortems but this is the best.
I really did like that reptilian thriller dance, but think of all the cool people they COULD have starred in it instead of a whatever-celebrity. As a somewhat sardonic yet easily-charmed female, my personal vote would have been Stephen Colbert.
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Some boringly practical advice:
[Read the article: I think I'm addicted to quitting my job!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, I'm not sure why you're doing this (sticking it to the man, terrified you'll wind up anywhere again for 20 years, pure boredom, fear of rejection, etc., etc.) but I can tell you you better STOP doing it.
Even in a great economy, excessive job hopping begins to look highly suspect to future employers (unless you're being promoted each time and are truly building a career), and in a lousy economy you'll be placed at the bottom of the candidate pile.
So you may just serial-quit yourself into working for yourself by default. If that's what you want, great.
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Puppy Bowls and Monsters
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]zzz05, I'm with you on Puppy Bowl. I've been watching it since Animal Planet started airing it (and yes, I am bragging). I agree, the action was particularly actionful this year!
To TomG76, well, what can I say. Clever chimpy ads don't add up to a hill of beans if the viewer doesn't notice that the commercial is for CareerBuilder, not Monster! Maybe CareerBuilder deserves that, as last year it put its longtime agency that created last year's commercial into review for not making the top 10 in the USA Today poll (a poll that has pr value only and not the slightest actual research value). Interesting drama about all that: The agency turned around and decided to fire CareerBuilder rather than submit to the indignities of an agency review, with a big and literal "Fuck You" heard round the advertising world. Google it if you're into this sort of thing. (This year's dismally performing CareerBuilder commercials were produced by their new agency: Wonder how that's going to turn out?)
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Accidental Tourist of the Sports Section
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't follow sports at all (I watched Puppy Bowl's greatest hits online and that was pretty sportsy of me), but I've been meaning to write in just to say that I always thoroughly enjoy the King columns that explore the stranger aspects of sports. They're such a revelation as they manage to expose the larger culture in all its dubious glory, and I love his way with zee words.
Would he please autograph my puppy bowl?
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Jesse, don't diminish his returns.
[Read the article: Sweet home Chicago]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If Jesse Jackson really wants to help Obama win, I hope he'll quietly go stuff some envelopes at volunteer headquarters.
There's a reason the phrase "silence is golden" exists, not that people who find the need to insert themselves into every interaction realize it.
I'm a Chicagoan, so I'm allowed to say this: Go, Jesse, go. Seriously. Go.
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This is the number that counts: 11/4/08
[Read the article: Who won Super Tuesday?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm inspired and energized by Obama, but I don't really give a damn in GOP hell whether Obama or Hillary wins the election; let's just get one of them in there, please! The most ardent supporters of each who threaten to either sit out the election, or worse yet, go into a snit and vote McCain (the inevitable GOP nominee) just don't realize what dangerous game they're playing!
Does any Democrat want to hand over four more years of this country's leadership to a party that laughs at social services, salivates at creating war, and dismisses 95 percent of us as worthless drones?
Do I have to get on my knees and beg? I will if I have to!
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A Million Little Pieces of Ass
[Read the article: How does a single father ever get laid?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wait a minute. Discerning Salon-type readers are responding with actual indignation, advice, sympathy, and other manifestations of believing a word of this?
Oh God, now THIS is comedy.
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Good readin' from The Onion
[Read the article: Mitt Romney suspends presidential campaign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As always, the Onion nails the future. The Jan. 31 issue has a hysterical yet oddly poignant front page article:
"Depressed Candidate Runs Attack Ad About Self"
(subhead: Romney: Who the hell do I think I am, anyway?)
www.theonioncom
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This Study Sponsored by....
[Read the article: Old women got the blues]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hmmmm... I detect the cologne-and-dusting powder scent of Big Pharma's search for a new market niche. Double that dose, gals!
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Marching on
[Read the article: Old women got the blues]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I say this straight up and from the heart: Old people are the most courageous people on the planet. God bless every one of them.
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Feline and human scams.
[Read the article: What I wouldn't do for my cat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Reading about those checkups and treatments vets are trying to sell you at milestones in your pets' lives (and why does that sound like a car dealer's service schedule to me?, I'm reminded about the fashionable new ways to get your human healthcare dollar, too.
My diabetic brother went to see a PA-C, whatever the heck that means, somebody in the department of endocrinology and metabolism. She talked to him lots about nutrition and taking care of himself, then nagged him about going to a wellness center (that happened to be part of the same healthcare conglomerate) till he caved in. Not one but two dietitian types took his blood pressure, talked to him about nutrition (all the same stuff the PA-C), then sent a $485 bill for it.
Redundancy, it's what's for (their)dinner!
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I'm going to skip all the way to the bank.
[Read the article: What will YOU do with your fiscal stimulus check?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yay! The prime rate has been cut and cut. It was supposed to goose the stock market, which it hasn't. It's supposed to help debtors pay down their balances, which I don't believe for a second will actually happen. What's the big diff between 18 percent interest and 15 or 16?
What the prime rate cuts HAVE done, nicely and efficiently and immediately, is lower the interest rates for SAVERS -- you know, that peculiar race of people who are fortunate enough to not yet be ruined by this country's definition of healthcare or stupid enough to buy, buy, buy beyond their means.
Isn't that cool? Now people have even less reason to put their money into savings and to try to build a secure future for themselves! YAY!!
But I don't care much for things, I'm still healthy, and I'm wired from childhood to save. So save I will. Dammit, I'm going to make that check WORK for me.