Letters to the Editor
kreniigh
Published Letters: 124 Editor's Choice: 10
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Yes, poor conclusion
[Read the article: Your cellphone yapping is slowing me down]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm glad I'm not the only one to wonder why someone on a cell phone driving behind a slow driver is going to impede traffic more than the slow driver.
There are plenty of reasons why cell phones are dangerous to use while driving, mainly inattention, but this makes no sense. If they aren't preventing people from passing them, who cares if they drive slow? Are they bringing down the average or something?
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Wrong format for War Room?
[Read the article: Democratic debate sort-of-live blogging continued]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I enjoyed this piece mostly, but it seems a little bit long and bloggish to be in War Room.
That's all.
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Yes, real problems in Iraq
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Earmarks wearing explosive vests conducted attacks at two markets in Baghdad Friday, resulting in what's being reported as the worst attack there for some time."
Everyone has problems!
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The first letter
[Read the article: John McCain hates Mitt Romney]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I guess I could go look at williadt's other letters to see what his/her position really is, but I had a real looking-glass moment reading this one.
I'm completely unable to tell if it's ironic. I think it's sincere, but it easily reads as ironic.
Crazy times.
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I am sick of all of you
[Read the article: In California, youth (hearts) Clinton ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That first letter demonstrates it all -- the whole Clinton/Obama debate is filled with morons who want some kind of WWF-style conflict, full of chest-thumping and fake outrage and "oh-no-he-di-int!" Legions of mouthbreathers are poised for every utterance by either candidate, every news story about them, waiting breathlessly to pounce on some word or phrase or facial tic so they can beat their chests and wail and accuse.
Unless you're RNC shills, please calm the fuck down, go turn on some wrestling or take your ritalin or whatever, and stop helping to tear down both candidates before the Repubs even get started.
Me, I'm just going to tune out all this bullshit from now on. I live in Ohio, so I probably won't ever have to worry about deciding on a candidate during the primaries.
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Salon -- Please add an option to ignore anonymous posts
[Read the article: Romney endorses McCain, McCain claims victory]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...Make life at least a little harder for the sock puppets and agitprop operators, please?
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One reason to ditch Anonymous
[Read the article: A note about War Room's reader comments]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Being able to read other letters by the same poster is a great way to tell if they're trolling.
I read two pages of 'other letters' posted by a recently-notorious poster mentioned earlier in this comments section, and found that he/she had written totally contradictory things in response to different articles -- obviously just here to stir up trouble.
It also lets you tell if a poster is single-mindedly trying to drag every topic back around to his/her personal obsessions.
There's no reason to go on allowing anonymous drive-bys.
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I think you named the wrong movie
[Read the article: Zombies eat YouTube!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What was fascinating about "Day of the Dead" (and, at least in spots, about the "28 Days Later"/"28 Weeks Later" films) was the attempt to imagine a reconstructed human society in which something as devastating as brain-eating zombieism becomes an administrative problem or a quasi-manageable epidemic like AIDS or Ebola virus.
Shirley you meant "Land of the Dead", not "Day of the Dead." The situation in Day is way, way beyond quasi-manageable.
And 28 Days Later is too a zombie movie, unless you're being pedantic.
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Unkind cuts on Dexter
[Read the article: TV Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How many minutes do you have to slice out of a 50 minute show to cram it into an hour of commercial TV?
Even with the swearing and sex and gore removed, the show's going to be missing a few important parts.
I wonder why people bother to watch shows like this and Sex & the City when they've been so... butchered.
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Salon still hasn't gotten rid of Anonymous posting
[Read the article: Clinton attacks Obama for focusing on rhetoric, Obama gets long-winded]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I suggested earlier that being able to read a poster's history of letters is useful in deciding if they're a troll or a sock puppet or someone actually worth paying any attention to.
Some of the most irritating and repetitive posters have all but vanished since last week's debate over the letters. And yet I see some of their stylistic tics now appearing from Anonymouses ("empty suit! bok bok! empty suit!"). Maybe it's not so difficult to figure out who's who.
Still, I'm about ready to just skip over all Anonymous letters from now on. Too bad Salon won't help facilitate that.
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Video commentary
[Read the article: The Castro effect]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Embedded video clips can be useful to show, for example, a politician's body language or tone of voice. But I don't see any reason to use them for ordinary commentary like this.
- It uses more of Salon's bandwidth;
- It takes longer to listen to than to read, especially if you have to wait for it to buffer;
- and some of us can't play videos because of nearby co-workers.
Yes, this letter does not address the content of Alex's commentary about Castro, because I am unable to access it. Can you please do this less often (i.e. not at all) in the future? Or at least include a transcript.
thanks
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the spin
[Read the article: Obama wins Democrats Abroad primary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The fact that he has to resort to taking votes from people who aren't even living in this country just shows how much of an "empty suit" he is!
...kidding!
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the illegitimate baby story
[Read the article: NYT breaks long-rumored story on possible relationship between McCain, lobbyist]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Back in 2000 when the whispering campaign was waged again McCain in the run up to the South Carolina primary, we always assumed stories of an "illegitimate brown baby" were in reference to his adopted Bangladeshi child. But maybe McCain has fathered actual illegitimate brown babies - perhaps some that have gone on to grow up and cross our porous borders, take our jobs, and plot terrorist attacks against us on our own soil.
When McCain started cozying up to Bush a few years ago, I took it as a tacit admission that the whispering campaign was true. After all, a principled man wouldn't be so friendly to someone whose campaign made up damaging lies about him...
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Real Time
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That was a lousy, frustrating episode of Bill Maher's show. So many blatant lies and misrepresentations went unchallenged... At one point, if I am remembering correctly, either Frum or Smilin' Bob said that Obama had not introduced any new legislation as a senator, and Bill just let it slide. Ugh.