Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 456 Editor's Choice: 21
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Why are so many of these anti-feminists such cowards?
[Read the article: Jane Fonda drops the C-word, O'Reilly freaks out]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is not some oppressive government, where voicing an anti-government opinion will get you and your family jailed or killed. This is a feminist blog, where voicing an anti-feminist opinion may subject you to printed words.
I read a post full of strident words and name-calling, then see that it was posted by Anonymous. And I think, "There is a weak, pathetic individual." I certainly don't give any credence to the argument.
Broadsheet seems to have orders of magnitude more of these spineless posters than any other letters forum on Salon. You are macho members of the He-man Woman Haters Club, but you lack the courage to let people know what your on-line assumed name is. That certainly adds gravitas to your position.
If the EFF guy shows up to respond to this, a little explanation: That kind of anonymity refers to hiding your Real Life identity from actual repercussion of your speech, not to hiding your letters handle from embarrassing reactions.
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The Republicans have to be loving this
[Read the article: Quote of the day: Obama on Clinton ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No matter who the nominee is, there ample ammunition here for the general election.
I haven't read every single post, and some that I read I just skimmed over, but I have read most of them closely. I didn't notice a single post that said "I am an Obama supporter and I think what he said was sexist," nor have I seen one that said "I am a Clinton supporter and I don't think what he said was sexist." Not that I didn't miss one, just that I didn't notice one.
The point is, politics seem to be driving the perception here. My guess is that the reality lies somewhere in between. But the fight sure is comical.
I bet John McCain is laughing.
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This is total crap
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am a mathematician, and I wasn't born without finger prints.
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For his sake you must leave him
[Read the article: My boyfriend's a secret crackhead!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you stay with him after this, after only ten months which have all been based on lies, you are doing him a disservice.
As many have noted, addicts have to hit rock bottom before they can ever recover. If you stay with him after all the lies, he cannot hit rock bottom.
Staying with him will mean his lies have worked. Staying with him will mean he still has one last fall back position. Staying with him will mean something he tried while still a practicing addict has worked.
For his sake, you must leave him. He will never recover as long as you are there.
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I still haven't forgiven him for betraying the Green Party in 2000
[Read the article: What will Nader say on "Meet the Press"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He was supposed to avoid campaigning in states that were in play. He was supposed to get the Green Party up to 5% of the vote to get the party official national status. Instead, he campaigned in battle ground states, and failed to get the 5%. He reneged on the deal.
And this ignores what culpability he may have in getting the Worst President Ever into the White House.
I won't actively campaign against Nader, but I will certainly make my disgust with him known to anyone who raises the subject with me.
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Well done, King
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Finally a Salon columnist video who understands video.
This was more than just a column read to a camera. There was visual content that enhanced the words. It was actually worth watching!!
Hey Joan Walsh. This is how you use video.
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Clarification
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]While this is the proper way to use video, that doesn't make it preferable to a written column. My point was merely that if you are going to use video, this is the way to use it. Not use it for the pointless droning of talking heads, a description that applies to virtually all of Salon's in-house video.
King, please limit this to once a month or less. And when you do have a video, have it in addition to your regular column, not instead of your regular column.
Joan Walsh, please limit in-house video to things like this, and eliminate the pointless droning of talking heads that has unfortunately become the norm for your self-produced videos.
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This story will probably have legs
[Read the article: Newsday's cheap shot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]People who do not really understand how our court system works will probably have the wrong (negative) reaction to this story. People who hate Hillary Clinton already will also react negatively. Together, these two groups probably make a large majority of Americans.
But let's look at this story filtered through the reality of our court system:
Hillary Clinton did her job exactly the way she was supposed to do it.
Well done Hillary.
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Full disclosure: I do NOT want Hillary Clinton to be the presidential nominee from the Democratic Party. Most emphatically not.
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A New Theory (Episode IV)
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So we have Kansas O'Flaherty, super international secret agent, trained to deal death in her sleep. But a couple of small-time jail house thugs are able to force her to dance to exhaustion against her will?
Couldn't she just kill them both in about 0.3 seconds if she wanted to?
No, really, the joke is on us just for reading this tripe. Schlesinger and Bachtell are snickering together every week at the thought that they have tricked thousands of people around the world into reading their cartoon. It probably takes more creativity and artistry to come up with this fake "gotcha" comic than it would to make something intended to be actually amusing.
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Valid versus Cowardly
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And no Anonymous-bashing, please. Not choosing a psuedonym is a valid choice. That's why it's offered.
There are occasional times when opting for anonymous is a valid choice. But those times are limited to posts which would expose the poster to real-life negative repercussions.
Otherwise it is just cowardice.
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Safecracker?
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Something no one has mentioned yet:
Kansas, an expert safecracker, breaks the lock with the hairpin that she carefully concealed from the attendants when they did the strip search.
Gratuitous strip search reference aside, this is a total non sequitor. Being a safecracker has pretty much nothing to do with opening regular key-type locks.
And that must be one hell of a hairpin if it will break the lock on a jail cell.