Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 656 Editor's Choice: 32
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21 going on 41
[Read the article: More on Lindsay Lohan in "The Last Sitting"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What I think is that this alcoholic, drug-using party girl of 21 looks more like 41 (a good 5 years older than Marilyn), making your point about only the young being considered sexy kind of moot.
If young girls are going to take any kind of cue from the Lohans of the world, I hope it's that drinking and drugging puts about 20 years on their faces.
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I can't WAIT for this!!
[Read the article: Obama shows that dismissing slimy right-wing attacks is not difficult]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've said it before: Chicago's culture of improv and retort is in Obama's blood. He's going to swat these punkass wannabes down and it's going to be beautiful!
BRING IT ON.
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"re-airing"
[Read the article: Bush-friendly station blocks "60 Minutes" Rove report]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This sent chills up my spine -- little weeds of fascism sprouting up. I went to the station's website just now to see if they had anything to say about it. Thankfully, this is up now:
CBS has granted WHNT permission to re-air "The Prosecution of Don Siegelman" again tonight (Monday) during NewsChannel 19 at 6:00.
Tonight on NewsChannel 19 at 6:00, you'll see an abbreviated newscast (news, weather and a shortened sportscast) and then, the entire 13-minute 60 Minutes piece will re-air.
We thank CBS for their help in this matter. We also thank CBS for allowing us to re-air the piece last night (Sunday) at 10pm.
WHNT experienced technical problems last night at 6pm with our receiver satellite, which pulls in CBS programming. We regret that this happened at a very inopportune time. Please accept our apology and please know it was not intentional.
Things that make you go hmmmmm........
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Oh God this guy is good.
[Read the article: No Hail Mary for Hillary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"But if the word 'reject' Senator Clinton feels is stronger than the word 'denounce,' then I'm happy to concede the point, and I would reject and denounce."
I have no objection to Clinton becoming president and would be happy to see her win, but it's Obama's collected intellect that makes my heart soar. I'm looking forward to Obama slicin and dicing McCain with that witty brilliance.
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To anonymous 11:25 a.m.
[Read the article: No Hail Mary for Hillary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"The Dems need to get behind ONE candidate now, and have these two quit pointing out how the other isn't up to the task, or McCain is going to use their one of their own party's ammunition against whichever is the nominee. Hillary, let it go."
Exactly!!!!!
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voice choice
[Read the article: Does Obama's baritone give him an edge?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wouldn't say that Obama's baritone is of any particular advantage. The voice disparity that has come up here is pretty simple stuff and it's called pleasantness.
Unfortunately, Hillary Clinton's voice is simply so unpleasant that anyone, male or female, with a more pleasant voice would sound downright musical.
I am offended at the idea that her voice is a hindrance because it's female but not in a girly or sexy way. How ridiculous. Don't readers remember teachers they could listen to all day, teachers who had delightful, powerful voices that exuded enthusiasm, warmth and authority? And remember the ones you couldn't wait to get away from, the ones that sounded tired, flat, anxious, intimidating? Not to mention that in my career, which has involved numerous team presentations, there will always women who could enchant a room.
I've been posting for a year that Hillary desperately needed voice coaching (and a wardrobe makeover, but I won't get intot that). But don't give us this Obama's marvelous baritone or people don't want to listen to their mother/nagging wife routine. I can remember a couple of males who managed to become presidents who I literally could not stand to listen to. Gerald Ford's sleepy flatness and Jimmy Carter's dead blandness come to mind.
I'm thrilled by Obama, but I'd be thrilled if I'd never seen or heard him but only read this books. That's the real power.
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um
[Read the article: The certainty epidemic]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's been decades since I've been certain about anything.
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Wrigley mineField
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Haha -- King and anyone else interested in the subject of renaming Wrigley Field: Take a gander over to the Chicago Tribune's message board and be entertained for hours.
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Shout it from the mountains.
[Read the article: Ralph Nader loves John McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This really, really needs to be told to any wide-eyed innocents who think they're making some grand stand for a more wonderful America by voting for Nader.
How do we do this?
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@King
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You wrote: It's almost inconceivable that whoever buys the naming rights would be stupid enough to do away with the name Wrigley completely. It'll be something like USF&G Wrigley Field.
But see, that's exactly why anybody who'd pay a dime for naming rights is a fool. Whether they cut out the Wrigley name or not (and ESPECIALLY if they don't), it will take this generation dying off to eliminate the Wrigley reference in common parlance.
Fine for them, so USF&G would be there in the logo and dutiful media announcers would call it that, but I guess it's up to the bean counters to determine if that exposure is worth the cost. And when I say cost, I also include the bile in the throats of Chicagoans for whichever company dared to defile one of the precious last traditions in this tradition-crushing city.
As Chicago's old, old wonderful buildings succumb to the wrecking ball, entire neighborhoods bow to Starbuckation, and Macy's loses its shirt for killing off Marshall Fields, Chicagoans are howling at the moon about this latest indignity.
Good luck to any corporation putting its neck on this chopping block. And by good luck, and I mean a curse upon you.
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We are (not) the world.
[Read the article: Brand-aid]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It was good reading the anecdotes from outside our little American box and especially to have my impression confirmed that Obama is the one who can begin the mending.
But I can do without the "branding" talk and the insipid advertising chart. It's just this kind of breezy, shallow approach to something as crucial as the next presidency that I'm sure further irritates the rest of the world no end. Honestly, it really is time for this country to grow the hell up.