Letters to the Editor
slingshot5150
Published Letters: 34 Editor's Choice: 3
-
echoes of 86
[Read the article: President Ciccone Penn Richie?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Reminds me of the old Beastie Boys' line: "If I played guitar I'd be Jimmy Page/The girls I like are underage."
-
teachers and students
[Read the article: Mothers, daughters, sisters -- behind bars]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I had the good fortune to go to highschool in Australia in the golden age of the early 80s - after the sexual revolution, but before political correctness.
A number of female teachers at my school slept with students, and I had the pleasure of losing my virginity to my french conversation teacher.
I looked at the one surviving photo of the two of us the other day, and it brought back fond memories, nothing more. If you banish power imbalances from sexual relationships, you'll have precious few sexual relationships left.
-
time-machine
[Read the article: Face transplants -- just for the ladies?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm inspired to jump in a time-machine, go back to the early 80s, kill one of the members of Duran Duran, cut his head off, bring the head back to the present, and get his finely-chiselled face in place of my own.
-
Nice to see Berkeley hasn't lost any of its legendary idiocy
[Read the article: 'Tooning out humanity]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can't believe Salon is printing crap like this.
"the larger, global "clash" launched by Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush in 2001"???!!!????
And since when does hatred of a religion (which I happily cop to with respect to islam)count as "racism"?
David Horowitz, where are you when we need you?
-
There is a God, and Her name is Christina Aguilera
[Read the article: Battle of the blondes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Christina Aguilera will be to the 21st century what Frank Sinatra was to the 20th.
"Back to Basics" isn't the masterpiece she's capable of, but listen to "Save Me From Myself" for a hint of what's to come.
-
unsolicited advice from a happy father
[Read the article: Mommie fearest]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ditch the baby songs and baby music, do mix tapes of 50s Frank Sinatra and whatever music YOU like that is both jolly and soothing. Don't dumb-down your converation, be as quick, witty and irreverent talking to your child as you would be in conversation with adults, s/he will be stimulated by it and will seek to emulate you.
-
I LOVE the L Word theme song...
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]..and love to sing along with it, which must look pretty silly, given that I'm a 41-year-old staright guy.
-
"burquini": echoes of oppression
[Read the article: Running in hijabs]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They might as well have called it the "clitorechtomy swimsuit".
-
equivalent of a parliamentary vote of "no confidence."
[Read the article: The power of King George]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]By this logic, Clinton should have resigned in 94.
-
Supreme Court Calendar
[Read the article: Sandra Day O'Connor: Why I left the Supreme Court]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Check this out: http://www.theweeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/252orqto.asp
-
Ice Queen Hillary
[Read the article: Looking back at Lady Bird]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What is striking about this colection of reminiscences is how utterly cold, formulaic and unfeeling the exerpt from Ms Clinton's book is, compared to all the others.
-
Cary Tennis is a dickhead
[Read the article: I have the hots for my stepson]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sorry for stating the obvious, but this week's assinine response was just the last fucking straw. OF COURSE the kid has the hots for the writer. What planet is Tennis living on????? I think she should fuck the kid's brains out.
-
right on the money!
[Read the article: My boyfriend is checking out chicks while I'm standing right there!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since I was so rude about a Cary Tennis answer last week, I felt if appropriate to say how clever and sensible today's advice is.
-
too damn expensive!!!!
[Read the article: The end of TimesSelect?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I love Maureeen Dowd's column, but as a matter of principle, I am not going to pay a sum for it that covers both my annual Salon and Weekly Standard subscriptions.
-
fond memories
[Read the article: "Smooth as old satin"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have very fond memories of Merv, cause an audio version of his show used to play on Melbourne radio at 11:00pm when I was a teenager growing up in Australia. In those (Australian) pre-cable days, it represented a very rare glimpse of Hollywood glamour, and he came accross as a genuinely nice guy. ... And he was no dummy either: he had David Letterman on just after Letterman's daytime series had been cancelled, he assured him that daytime was an impossible challenge for Letterman's style of comedy, and predicted a big career for him in late night.
-
Vote UGG!!
[Read the article: This Modern World ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please, please, please can we have more strips featuring UGG???
-
hopefully my one and only nerdy posting
[Read the article: Live large and prosper]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We last saw Spock on Romulus, where he was part of an underground movement.
He could still feature in a new film.
Because vulcans have such long life-spans, Spock is the one original character that can be featured in the Next Generation/Voyager timeline, without resorting to gimmicks.
-
political correctness run amok
[Read the article: Child porn or edgy art?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is absolutely outrageous to label any image of a late adolescent as "child porn", especially images of a female who would be above the age of consent in an overwhelming majority of jurisdictions in the world.
"Child porn" relates to pre-pubescent children, and there are two important reasons for banning it:
1. protecting the "models"; and
2. guarding against contributing to faulty thinking on the part of pedophiles that their sexual desire for pebuscent children is somehow "okay".
If I was ever pussy-whipped to the point where I felt guilty about being aroused by images of 17 year-old girls, I would hope someone would take me out and shoot me.
-
PS
[Read the article: Child porn or edgy art?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]After seeing the photos, I agree that the model is way, way too thin - but that's a different debate.
-
cross-over candidates
[Read the article: Why conservatives love Barack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Both Obama and Huckabee are genuine, massively-appealing cross-over candidates. A presidential contest between the two of them would be utterly rivetting.
-
mixed messages
[Read the article: Shaming Jamie Lynn Spears]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Does anyone else see the dis-connect in Ms Clark-Flory labelling pictures of a 17 year old girl "child porn" in one posting, then chatting matter-of-factly about a 16 year old girl being free to do whatever she wants with her body, a few days later?
-
Vote Ugg!!!
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please can there be another Ugg strip before Super Tuesday???
-
mislabelling the mCcain haters
[Read the article: McCain brings it home ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The "neocons" - whose dominant trait is being hawkish on foreign policy - have been with McCain for weeks; just browse through the last few issues of "The Weekly Standard" if you doubt it. The people denouncing McCain are crazed far-right idealogues, not neocons.
-
Thank you for bringing back UGG!
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My prayers have been answered!
Will there be UGG merchandise?
(I still think the blank slate candidate is meant to be Obama, despite Obama's appearance in panel 5.)
-
Silda wins because she looks HOT
[Read the article: Mirror, mirror on the Wall]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Unlike Hillary Clinton or Dick Morris' wife, Silda Wall looks really, REALLY fuckable in all thsse public appearances with her husband. My reaction - and presumably that of many, many other heterosexual men - is: "What a schmuck Spitzer is for mucking around with hookers when he has such a hot woman at home!" ...So she WINS!!!!