Letters to the Editor
Quiet Type
Published Letters: 624 Editor's Choice: 32
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To Symbol Poster
[Read the article: Old women got the blues]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"If they were so courageous they'd stop voting for conservative douchebags."
Ha! Yes, of course you are right. I should have clarified that I was speaking on a very personal level -- of meeting each new day through frailty, pain, illness, loss, and the awareness that time is running out. That all seems pretty heroic to me.
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Who's your daddy?
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just want to know who pimped out this twirp Schuster to do their dirty work for them. I'd never even heard of the twit prior to today.
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Da Baits
[Read the article: Obama declines debate invite, so Clinton will go it alone]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fox holds debates? Fox holds da baits. Props to Obama for giving them a big "fuck off." While it's a shame Hillary's giving them any legitimacy by showing up, I do look forward to watching her castrate the whole bunch.
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Not embarrassed at all.
[Read the article: Chris Wallace: Probing, hard-nosed journalist]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You give Bush way too much credit. The whole thing had to be a mutually agreed-upon set-up, with Wallace playing the "gosh I just don't get it" role. Even the written script indicates one of the more rehearsed exchanges of the Bush-Fox years. Bush's faux acknowledgement of the other side was well calculated to make him appear a reasonable guy who has given all this lots of knitted-brow consideration.
Someone needs to write a book about how to spot the more subtle ploys of "perception management." I've spent some time in the public relations industry, so even its more twisted permutations (like this one) practically shout to me.
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This is a scare tactic I can get behind.
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sure, you might well ask:
Where's the money?
Where's the men?
Where's the sanity?
But this is good. It's a nail in McCain's campaign coffin. I hope a hundred other goofs get on tv to talk the same babble about McCain starting war in Iran.
If it scares Republican or independent voters out of voting for McCain, it's a downright public service.
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Not his friend.
[Read the article: Planned Parenthood: McCain's no moderate on abortion rights]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The guy has a soothing voice, looks like Grampa and calls everybody "my friends," so brains that should know better turn to mush. Kudos to Planned Parenthood for reminding "folks" who this guy really is. We're going to need a lot more of this type of strongminded perception correction in the months ahead.
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some characters
[Read the article: V-day advice: Ladies, don't snoop in people's e-mail]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The type of adult who'd snoop in other people's e-mail is the type of person who snooped in other people's diaries as a kid. Lousy character shows up early and stays late.
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This line has been an epiphany for me:
[Read the article: Help! I'm a prisoner in a big suburban house!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Stupid is not one reckless decision, but a way of not seeing things." Thanks, Anonymous
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This could ruin Home Depot.
[Read the article: The secret life of sperm]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What's the good of all this science if it doesn't have practical applications? What I want to know is: The next time the plumber's here to unplug my drain, should I ask him to remove his pants?
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Truth in advertising
[Read the article: Wal-Mart can be good for your health]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Retail health."
Best description ever of American medicine.
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I'm just a pragmatist.
[Read the article: My boyfriend's a secret crackhead!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You have only 10 months invested in this relationship? Get out. Now.
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So did it get him laid?
[Read the article: My boyfriend danced dirty to make me jealous ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He said he went along with it thinking it would get him laid.
So the only question is: By you, or by her?
Because if he was talking about you, and he thought your watching him be all sexy with someone else would get you into a frisky mood -- well, that's kind of endearing in a clumsy kind of way.
But if he was talking about her? Then you've got bigger problems than the feeling of being disrespected. In fact, you may want to revisit that whole monogamous relationship thing you think you have with him.
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President Obama
[Read the article: A new face for American diplomacy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Can you imagine? An American president as able to speak English and think coherent, conceptual thoughts as the other leaders of the world, sitting down with them to have an actual conversation?
This image in my mind is exactly what Obamatized me from the moment he announced his presidency. God bless him, Allah bless him, whatever and whoever bless him!
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Yep, I'm Obamatized.
[Read the article: A new face for American diplomacy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]oops - I mean "announced his candidacy"
(or did I?)
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silly season
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's Texas-size moment ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Enough about petty plagiarism! Biden was pounded into the ground for a much more egregious case of it some years ago and yet today is seen as a veritable statesman.
Campbell Brown was a stupid moron to bring it up, and Clinton did herself no favor with that smart aleck "Xerox" remark -- you've got to have a bit of a light touch to reduce its tacky quotient,and she doesn't. And really, it was beneath her. She's smart and thoughtful; what does she need to say that kind of thing for? You know what I would have loved to hear her respond? "You know, Campbell,in retrospect, I realize Senator Obama and I really have a lot more urgent topics to tackle."
I would ask Obama and Clinton to please not go Rovian on us. Going off on silly tangents ("silly season" is right!) is a waste of all of our precious energy.
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This boat's rockin'.
[Read the article: Can Obama survive the "Freak Show"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If there's one thing great about being from Chicago, it's the cultural ingraining of improv, one-liners and devastating comebacks. (Thank you, Second City!) I have no doubt that Obama's battleship intellect will crush creaky Swift Boats into splinters.
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@Ben Sen
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's Texas-size moment ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"The forces that have come into play in this election basically make the debates mute at this point."
While I'm pretty sure you meant moot, I wouldn't mind mute. It's a shame these two great candidates feel pressured to keep proving themselves over and over, when it's the other side that's got all the 'splainin' to do.
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@SaltyPappy
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's Texas-size moment ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"SO......I am hoping for a change, a real change, with hopeful changing and a change towards hoping, with hopeness the change we seek and changing towards hope being the hopefullest change of all!!!!!"
You know what's the cool thing about Obamabots like me? We can laugh at truly funny stuff like this.
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Shoo fly!
[Read the article: What will Nader say on "Meet the Press"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thankfully, Democrats are either too old to be snookered into helping create a McCain presidency, or too young to know who this guy "Nadir" is.
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Righteous intentions.
[Read the article: Holy hot marital sex!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's all rather noble. The Christian Right just wants to help coax all its gay husbands into choosing to be heterosexual.