Letters to the Editor
Quiet Type
Published Letters: 655 Editor's Choice: 32
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Pull this plug.
[Read the article: I am the keeper of secrets]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Those two are unhappy? It's only a matter of time before the husband friend or the wife friend has an affair, tells you all about it, and swears you to secrecy -- and you are going to feel slimy and rotten to the core.
So it's time NOW to tell each of them (separately) that things in their marriage are beyond your capacity to help, make you feel kind of bad, and maybe they should think about marriage counseling.
Been there with the secrets -- it SUCKS.
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The White House of Un-American Activities
[Read the article: McCain launches first general-election ads]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The American president Americans have been waiting for?
So that would make Bush un-American?
Well, I can't argue with that. Guess I'll have to vote for him after all.
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Four more years for more tears.
[Read the article: Professor Obama, I presume? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have lost all respect for Hillary, and I had plenty for her. This whole campaign is no longer angering me, it is just depressing the hell out of me. John McCain, please take this lovelypresidency, handed to you on this lovely silver ("no, it's nickel" -- "no, it's brass") platter.
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On friends and confidences
[Read the article: I am the keeper of secrets]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So let me toss this out. How about when a long-term friend who's always confided in you starts doing things you think are creepy/immoral/dangerous/insane, but they're happy as a clam and even proud of it all.
I said what I really thought, and the friendship is pretty much dead.
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Thanks, Glenn.
[Read the article: Michael Mukasey's tearful lies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As usual, the George Bush way is to rely on the American people being too uninformed (who working two jobs and raising a family has time to keep up with matters of law?), too unschooled in the most elementary principles of logic (and only moreso as the emphasis on education becomes memorization rather than critical thinking), and too willing to watch Fox News (pre-digestion is just an easier way to swallow things)to realize that we all are watching theatre, not democratic government.
I can only say thank you to Glenn Greenwald for having the endurance to take on these endless layers of lies and hope that somebody in the MSM reads this article and distributes it or at least cribs from it!
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Past the point of a point.
[Read the article: Professor Obama, I presume? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Monster. America damner. Non-professor. Sniped at.
Whatever. People who like Obama will give him a pass for the things he and his entourage say. People who like Clinton will give her a pass for the things she and her entourage say.
Nobody is convincing anybody. What is the possible point of arguing any of this into the ground?
It's too late to change any minds. Now how about us getting onto the business of nuking McCain's campaign?
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Vice-President Edwards
[Read the article: Why John Edwards hasn't endorsed Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This late in the game, does it really, really matter who John Edwards endorses? I think he's made himself irrelevant by keeping mum this long.
Personally, I think he's staying quiet because he'd like to asked to be vice-president by either of them. Coming out for one kills his chances with the other.
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eeny-meeny-neither mo!
[Read the article: Why John Edwards hasn't endorsed Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]On second thought, maybe Barelypolitical has it right. They have a "conference call" on youtube that ends in Edwards cheerfully telling both candidates to suck his dick. LOL.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgUQl75hUVs
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@lolcait
[Read the article: Why John Edwards hasn't endorsed Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow. I was taking your posts pretty seriously until that last one spouting "demographics." That just plain made me laugh.
Did you learn everything you ever needed to know by watching 30 minutes of Fox "News"?
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Life, scripted.
[Read the article: I want a baby so badly it scares me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What is up with these lame heads and subheads?
Here I was, ready to write that you need to make sure you aren't scared and insane enough to marry somebody you don't even like and ruin a whole bunch of lives, or maybe have a baby without a man because you're driven and wind up making your life and your baby's unnecessarily hard --
and then it turns out you're not scared or feeling insane at all, just pretty much feeling what most women feel at your age. "Craving" is how you put it; envying other women, feeling it's time to get on with it.
Yeah, sounds like you want pretty much all the pedestrian stuff most average women want. So go work on finding a good pedestrian guy and get on with it.
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It's Raving McCain, Hallelujah.
[Read the article: McCain Girl responds]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Silly rabbit, don't you know most people are sick of Government by Temper Tantrum? Keep it up, gal, 'cause this makes your candidate and his followers look really, really ready for defeat.
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meh
[Read the article: What is your literary deal breaker?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When I was in my teens and 20s, my screen-out process was music. It was dumb then, and so is this book thing now.
Not only are mirror images pretty hard to find, but they get pretty boring when you do.
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Yeah? You and what army?
[Read the article: McCain, Obama in spat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can't wait CAN'T WAIT to watch Obama make tapioca out of this puddin' head. Masterpiece Theatre! Bring it on, McClaim!
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@Xrandadu
[Read the article: McCain, Obama in spat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]McCain might stumble on facts about the Mideast -- or not. We'll have to watch for a mysterious box-shaped thingy in the back of his jacket.
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It's all in the presentation.
[Read the article: I'm embarrassed to admit I met my guy online]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's the old, "it's not what you say, it's how you say it." There are many ways to say "we met online" -- matter-of-factly, conspiratorially, self-deprecatingly, sheepishly, pitifully, humorously, proudly. I recommend either of the latter.
Say it loud, say it proud, say it with a gigantic smile and enthusiastic eyes, say it like it's the best thing that ever happened to you. It totally disarms people and gets them asking themselves, "Now why didn't I think of that?"
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The Environmentalist
[Read the article: Make mine a Mrs. Robinson!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Beer.
Recycled beer.
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never again -- I hope
[Read the article: The Great Depression: The sequel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have the unpleasant feeling that it would take a Depression-era WPA program to get a damn thing done about any of our ignored infrastructural crumbling.
Which would be the only good thing about a depression.
Everything else? Can you imagine today's Americans lined up politely to wait for a bowl of soup? Or sleeping in the parks on a 90 degree night unmolested? Or sharing an apartment with a dozen relatives or strangers? That's what my mother remembers.
We all better hope God himself doesn't let it happen again, because none of those things I just mentioned are going to work out so well.