Letters to the Editor
Quiet Type
Published Letters: 624 Editor's Choice: 32
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Choosing
[Read the article: Should I stay East or go West?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You could make a list of pros and cons about each location, but what good would it do? All those rational thoughts and items that are able to be transferred to a piece of paper don't amount to a hill of beans for the heart. It's not much different from choosing between two men: Their individual lists of qualities dissolve into pointlessness, because either your spirit is with one, or it isn't.
But come to think of it, just like in the man analogy, if you can't really choose, maybe it's because neither is really right? Hmm.... perhaps it's Omaha your soul truly craves....
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Distract And Conquer
[Read the article: Couric goes to bat for Lohan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Katie Couric and Lindsay Lohan are both has-beens whose only hope of remaining in the present tense is to continue creating pseudo news (like driving drunk, or offering opinions on each other), and having dupes like Salon keep writing about it.
Bush and Cheney must eat this up. What a delight! Americans become conditioned to think they're actually supposed to care about this useless idiocy, and meanwhile the real events going on this world become postscripts, irritating little interruptions we can't do anything about anyway -- right?
Go ahead, just try to say the USA isn't declining by the hour.
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Silly wife, sure, but...
[Read the article: Will Rudy Giuliani's marriage hurt his chances?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mildly interesting reading (of the junior high cafeteria sort), but it says a lot more to me that NY's firefighters hate him. I would think that THAT would be the damning stuff for a candidate who's been riding the charred coattails of 9/11 for the last six years, not a strutting, annoying wife. Of course, I'm a Democrat, so what do I know about what sinks in to Republican minds.
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Cluckfest
[Read the article: Hillary's chest war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh for God's sake. I hope she wears a friggin' headband next time. Oh, and make that during a visit to Iraq. Would that give our Moronic Media something to hang its floppy hat on?
I have to go read Glenn Greenwald now to clear my palate.
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I'm reading between the lines
[Read the article: How can I help my friend get over losing his girlfriend?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Assuming LW is about the age of the self-deluding, soon-to-be-pining man, or let's say even 10 years younger, the LW should have had plenty experience by now in being there for a dumped friend.
Something seems off here. I say LW is a woman who wants in with this guy, and is really asking how best take this opportunity to wean him off the young 'un and onto her.
Shouldn't be that hard. But who the hell really wants to play that temporary role we all know as Rebound Relationship?
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Grabbing the ears of voting teenagers
[Read the article: Daddy dearest]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It may not say much that a teenage girl doesn't like Rudy's policies, but I think it says very much that someone as inherently interesting as Rudy's kid DOES like Obama's policies. I personally would love to hear what she thinks, mostly because a 17-year-old hangs out with 18-year-olds, who hang out with 19-year-olds... Sparking the interest of this age group can go a long way toward getting out the Democratic vote. And the way things are going, we're going to need every vote we can get.
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Ancient Assyrian:
[Read the article: Obama's big blunder]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you for that sorry catalog. I hope it serves to startle (or even better, shame) Salon into writing more respectfully about Obama or just shutting the hell up about him. I'm white and plenty embarrassed by this.
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Sarcasm not translating
[Read the article: Hey, at least he didn't call it "America Junior"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tim, you'll have to forgive the many of us who didn't hear the sarcasm. What with all the petty and condescending Salon writers' rips on Obama liberally applied throughout this site, most of us who are in true fear for the future of this country are getting pretty sensitive about it. (See poster AncientAssyrian's catalog of Salon Obamabombs in response to the Joan Walsh pounce on the so-terribly-important Barry Bonds "issue.")
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Is hour president smarter then a fifth grater?
[Read the article: Bush: Watch out for that soft landing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Every time I see this man we call our president quoted in black and white, I hear the voice of the most pathetic kid in 5th grade up there giving his book report:
"I liked the book. It had 3 characters. The setting was school. The book was interesting. In conclusion, I liked the book."
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Googliest Publicity Stunt Ever
[Read the article: Colbert and Stewart are called to testify in the YouTube suit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Stewart and Colbert depose for Google? The best part is, we each get to fill in our own punchline!
Here's mine: Watch for the highlights on Google Video!
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Squirmy kids
[Read the article: Can you say "cut and run"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't all these GOP sons and daughters get all squirmy and annoyed by all the sudden parental glomming going on? I'm pretty sure any kid past 10 years old isn't thrilled to "spend more time" with the old folks.
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Worst job ever.
[Read the article: P.S., Mr. President: "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, I don't mean Bush's record. I mean Dana Perino's assigned tasks.
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"Got Cough?"
[Read the article: There's a cougher in the office and it's driving me mad!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since he's not completely oblivious and is himself trying to stop this, suggest he stop drinking milk and eating dairy products. As a little gift to him, buy him soy milk soy cheese and tofutti and other dairy substitue stuff and suggest he try them.
Dairy is a notorious mucus producer, and mucus equals coughing if the guy is either sensitive to any amount or eating way too much of it.
I hope this helps. I could hear coughing in my head just reading this letter and even imagining it was quite unpleasant.
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Colbertify him!
[Read the article: The poisonous rhetorical legacy of Karl Rove]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can't stand the sight of this freak's face, but I'd be glued to my tv screen if Colbert scored an interview!
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Vicks is mopping up
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't think intelligence enters into the kind of decision-making involved in "as a man with everything, and everything to lose, should I dogfight or not?" In fact, I don't think there's any decision-making process at all. Just pure, bald, stunningly sick narcissism. I doubt it would even occur to a man like this that he could ever get in trouble, for anything.
So I just have to love this story: I saw a TV report on a humane shelter -- people were sending their Michael Vick t-shirts and jerseys to the shelter, and the shelter was "finding some good" to do with them. No, thank God, it was NOT putting them on e-bay as a fundraiser: It was using them to clean the cages and provide soft bedding for the dogs! Between that story and the 14-year-old dalmation rescued after four days trapped in a storm drain, it was a good day for canines!