Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 792 Editor's Choice: 35
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@natesmith124 re: sluts
[Read the article: Why Obama should pick Hillary Clinton as veep]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Aw, Nate -- I guess I'm getting old. "Jane you ignorant slut" was from the old days of Saturday Night Live, from a hilarious parody of a popular point/counterpoint show. It always featured Dan Akroyd's opening "argument" with Jane Curtin: "Jane, you ignorant slut."
The Denise Richards/unknown-other-girl slut reference was to Salon's OWN headlined "slut" reference, the featured placement of which is now mercifully gone.
At any rate, I was joking, JOKING. Give an Obamabot/Obamatron/Obamatrollop some credit here! :)
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well DUH
[Read the article: More on Kucinich and impeachment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't worry, Alex. This is Salon, and no explanation is necessary. Of COURSE this isn't newsworthy; this isn't about HILLLLLLLARY.
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@kliztexas
[Read the article: My failed lesbian romance]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It does seem like sexuality is the side issue here, and the writer doesn't even realize it.
Co-dependents have to at some point deal with the REAL stuff: Why (and how)do they wind up enmeshed with addicted and disordered people over and over again -- and how can they stop the cycle?
It's something every mom should take pretty seriously before she brings a string of temporary people into her kids' lives and breaks their little hearts over and over, too.
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Alex needs to grow up.
[Read the article: MoveOn, AFSCME hit McCain on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The thing about this "100 years" thing, is that I don't think even McCain supporters really believe we're going to be there until little Alex grows up.
But I do think people could easily put their heads around us being there another 5 years, and not wanting that, either. So I can't help but think this ad would have had more credibility and impact with a junior high school age kid.
"Alex just graduated middle school. We're having a party for him and all he can talk about is how excited he is about studying biology so he can go to medical school someday..."
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obama mama
[Read the article: MoveOn, AFSCME hit McCain on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]ehhh, I wasn't going to say it, but... yes, this is a god-awful actress.
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hate to bring it up, but...boundaries.
[Read the article: My failed lesbian romance]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that any relationship that begins with some perfect stranger pressing him or herself against you while you allow it because you are feeling so weak, should probably get you thinking about the concept of personal boundaries. This also includes just how much alcohol you're okay with, as there are numerous references to alcohol imbibing in here, including drinking while the kids are watching tv.
Look on any website about co-dependency. Personal boundaries are key to ever having stability in one's life.
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If only
[Read the article: Election 2008: Declare a forfeit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't understand where this sense of "inevitability" (ahem) is coming from. I keep reading about polls that show a very close race.
The truth is I am scared to death that McCain is going to win. Now, and the next 4 months, is no time to call it a day and relax.
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fell down on the job
[Read the article: The new racist, anti-Obama fashion statement]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Half-assed racism is SO annoying. Shouldn't it read "if Obama BE president"?
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@Xrandadu Hutman
[Read the article: MoveOn, AFSCME hit McCain on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's the future. An old woman is about to blow out 100 candles on her cake at a sparsely attended birthday party.
Woman:
"There ought to be a whole lot more children and grandchildren and greatchildren here, you sonofabitch." She thumps her cane at the camera and bellows: "THANKS, JOHN MCCAIN."
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Marketing opportunity.
[Read the article: The new racist, anti-Obama fashion statement]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think Sherwin-Williams needs to come up with a couple more paint colors, available only regionally:
Black House. And Whitey.
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Howdy!
[Read the article: A McCain-Lieberman ticket?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This pairing became more than likely to me the moment I saw Lieberman whispering sweet nothings -- I mean corrections -- in McCain's ear.
McCain's going to need some help with little things like facts, so allow me throw my full support behind Lieberman as the choice for Ventriloquist-- I mean Vice-President.
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That Muslim Terrorist Woody Hussein Allen said it best: "I really have mixed feelings about this."
[Read the article: Volunteers blocked Muslims from being seen with Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Put me in the "mixed feelings" category. Keeping the ladies out of the tv frame sucks. But so does the fact that one snotty punk-dit on Fox brought Dunkin' Donuts and its ad agency to their knees. I can only imagine the monthlong spiral of "news" those scary scarves would generate.
Besides, the totally fed up and nauseated side of me says those gals were GOP shills sent to start a dungstorm.
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@Amity
[Read the article: Volunteers blocked Muslims from being seen with Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are all too correct: The fed up and nauseated side IS my only side -- or should I say the only side I'm aware of. :)
(I was trying to pretend I even have an All-American cheerful side, but you saw right through it.)
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This just in: Chivalry not dead; neither is laughable manipulation.
[Read the article: Pipe down, Cindy McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The chivalry sweepstakes annoys you? Are you kidding? As if is isn't men who aren't pulling Cindy "Chatty Cathy" McCain's strings in the first place.
Too bad our presidential contenders aren't single. We might be talking about actual STUFF that's going to matter for the next four years and well beyond.
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(Very) High Noon
[Read the article: Pipe down, Cindy McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh yeah, about that "catfight"?
I prefer the term "old-time western movie barroom brawl." The thought of Michelle Obama cracking a prop chair over Cindy's head and hurling her through a window pane made of sugar kind of appeals to me.
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@david sugarman
[Read the article: Pipe down, Cindy McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"just wanted to clue in The New Salon Demographic that this is really a sideshow (in the original circus connotation)."
True. But then again, for lots of us, Joan's articles are a sideshow to the real point of Salon, which is Glenn Greenwald.
In my case, opiate might be more apt than sideshow, as the anxiety I feel about what's happening in this country is somewhat reduced when reading Joan's chatter and the entertaining letters it generates.
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@ALG2008 about that singularity
[Read the article: Pipe down, Cindy McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hiss! Hiss!
"If the candidates were single" was my grumpy hypothetical, and C. Mosby added that certain fine touch of gayness.
Damn. Can't a quiet catty face-scratcher like me get any credit?
MeOW.
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@ALG2008 about salonparody
[Read the article: Pipe down, Cindy McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh God I laughed so hard I'm crying. GREAT headlines, and may I say congratulations on your those nice fat letters numbers!
(P.S. I'd like to say I'm an Obama Baby Mama, but I'm a mere non-reproducing Obamatrollop.)
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Pity the babies.
[Read the article: Should we go to the mall -- or get pregnant?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We shall see how many of these babies are rejected by their mommies, given up for adoption, when the mommies figure out that you don't fight economic desperation by creating yet more expensive life.
When did teenage girls get so laughably and infuriatingly stupid?
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sickened twice
[Read the article: Rove: Obama "coolly arrogant" ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't know what's worse, Karl Rove's vomit or Salon's decision to splash it all over its site.