Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 656 Editor's Choice: 32
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Is the Pope Catholic enough?
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Was Obama's speech enough to get the hell off this trivial subject and onto something that should matter in this campaign, like, say, tomorrow's 5-year anniversary of our shameful invasion of Iraq, or maybe the insane swings of our economy, for just a couple of examples?
Hey, if Salon can use an annoying rhetorical question in its headlines, I can make a whole post out of one.
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I say Amen.
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, this depressingly shallow opinion piece has managed to serve a purpose after all: Lots of smart people stepping up to the plate to explain, a lot more patiently than I ever would, why this speech was beyond "enough" -- it was a shining star hovering over a sea of mud.
Even if Obama fails to become president, I am cheered a bit to know that a man of this caliber can be still be found in the Drain Circling States of America.
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Monologue Dialogue
[Read the article: I did a vagina monologue but didn't tell my husband!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]LW, I'm guessing the reason you're not telling hubby is because any kind of performing is fun and exciting, and you don't want him to kill that buzz with derision, criticism, or indifference.
So keep it to yourself and your girlfriends, and do that thing people do with things like this: 10 years from now, bring it up when it's too late for him to ruin it for you.
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I've stuck a fork in Joan; she's done.
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's long strange journey on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Obamaton"? I have to rub my eyes to make sure I'm reading Salon's site, not Fox's.
Thanks, Joan, for revealing just how condescending and divisive YOU are. It saves me the trouble of bothering to read any more of your posts.
(And for the record, gee, I "can't help but wish" Clinton had been bolder, too, but I wouldn't call a single one of her followers Clintonatons.)
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Ignorant bliss
[Read the article: The real reason Barack Obama's divisive]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]O'Reilly still has a show?
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@CitizenRob
[Read the article: I did a vagina monologue but didn't tell my husband!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I don't know what's more painfully suburban, the Vagina Monologues or your marriage."
haha! too funny!
I remember once being asked on a suburban-married-woman outing to see the show, but I valued another organ (located in the digestive tract) so I declined.
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Please define "sickening and sad."
[Read the article: YouTube Awards: "Chocolate Rain," and a happy kid]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You think it's sickening and sad that a father is creating some spontaneous joy and sharing a priceless moment of bonding with his little boy?
Wow, I'm kinda speechless.
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Easter Greetings
[Read the article: One of Instapundit's favorite blogs speaks on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Christ really did die in vain. He must be suffering more than he ever did on the cross.
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Cut to the chase of this chase.
[Read the article: My boyfriend won't give me his apartment key]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not real sure why LW should spend one more ounce of energy participating in some pointless protracted chase game to "see what he does." As of this moment, she knows everything she needs to know about this guy. He is selfish, he is uninterested in her needs, he won't meet her halfway, and most painful of all, he can take or leave her.
LW, do you want a guy you have to play ridiculous games with every time you need something from him? Because that's what you're signing up for if you spend one more day with him. This isn't love. It isn't even like.
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Oh yeah?
[Read the article: Is your vagina magic?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Me colon look pretty one day.
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wake me when she consummates
[Read the article: The best-laid plans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry, reached my limit after page 1. Someone let me know how this yummy bit of earth-shattering fascinatia ends, ok?
(Although I'd be much more interested in the answer to how this kind of thing makes it to Salon.)
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Create a schedule.
[Read the article: Would you please get out of my swimming pool!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since the cousin isn't 14 but a grown woman with kids of her own, I can't imagine why the dreaded conversation should be with her mother and father (the aunt and uncle).
LW's husband created this with that open invitation, and by all rights he should have to fix this, but in the real world that won't happen.
So I say LW should get on the phone with cousin and have a friendly but businesslike conversation that goes something like this: "Because so many friends and neighbors want to use ourpool, hubby and I have decided to create a pool schedule to help accommodate everybody and still leave pool time just for us. You're welcome to bring the kids and use the pool every Thursday from 2-5 p.m."
Or you can skip the preamble and just start with "Hubby and I have decided..."
Heck, you can even tell her your insurance agent has suggested you do this as a responsible homeowner. I bet those guys actually do have plenty of thoughts on allowing visitors wholesale usage of home pools!
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@walter_map
[Read the article: The best-laid plans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Uh, Walter? Get a room. With yourself. :)
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That cold, purple heart of hers.
[Read the article: Clinton: Wright "would not have been my pastor"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You know, it barely fazes me that she'd attempt to pin a purple heart on herself for traveling to Bosnia, but I sure am repulsed when that natural naked opportunism of hers conjures up something as huffy and petty as, "Well! If he was MY pastor..."
I cringe at every new shred of dignity she manages to shed. Seriously, what is the matter with her?
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@manos99
[Read the article: Clinton: Wright "would not have been my pastor"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here I was thinking how cool she was for NOT stooping to any pastor digs. This kind of deflection play is such a disappointment and embarrassingly pitiful. That it plays so cozily into the GOP's fat little hands is, of course, the worst aspect of all.
With each new day she reveals how truly little she cares about the health of the Democratic party. I'm sure Rove is sipping martinis and enjoying the show.
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Get them out there.
[Read the article: What can and cannot be spoken on television]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I hope that Antoon and Fadhil are using the Rose interview to aggressively seek bookings on the more highly watched shows. My personal fantasy is to watch them swat down the Fox crowd. Americans desperately need to hear this before they mindlessly vote for McCain.
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No bloom on Bloomberg.
[Read the article: Obama-Bloomberg '08?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm Jewish myself, and I've got to admit it sounds like a set-up for a joke: "A black and a Jew walk into a bar, and a warmongering old white fuck gets elected..."
By the way, Bloomberg has a pretty arrogant, condescending personality. Yeah, THAT'll play well outside New York, the only state in America that rather likes that type.
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@manos99
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton on the economy: "We have a crisis of confidence"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"cluck cluck cluck"
Rev. Wright's a pretty smart guy. I hear three of his chickens coming home to roost:
1. Iraq
2. the mortgage bender
3. Hillary's nomination hopes