Letters to the Editor
MCD
Published Letters: 33 Editor's Choice: 1
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I am crying with laughter right now
[Read the article: Cheers for tears]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're joking, right? Not crying in a professional setting is not a "male" value - it is the market stating its preference for reason over emotion (in particular, emotions that cause one to lose their self-control). Never mind, this has to be a joke. Good one!
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Finally.
[Read the article: A War Room caption contest]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Finally, after a lifelong search, Bono - Global Crusader for Somethingorother - discovers someone even more arrogantly deluded than himself.
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"Diet" versus "smart"
[Read the article: Women drink "diet," while guys sip "calorie-free"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't like the implication that I'm on a "diet" just because I prefer sugar-free soda. There's a difference between an all-out "diet" and simply cutting back on stuff here and there that's bad for you, like high-fructose corn syrup. Diets are for neurotic harpies, and I'm just a regular person making a few smarter eating/drinking decisions.
By the way, if you are a man and you say you're on a diet, you will be ruthlessly mocked by your peers. Now I will go eat a double cheeseburger with my Coke Zero, preferably in front of some anorexic, neurotic harpie on a diet eating a salad that doesn't even fill her up.
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I'm Actually Impressed
[Read the article: The private war of women soldiers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It amazing that we haven't been turned back out of Iraq by the insurgents considering all the soldiers seem to be busy raping and male chauvanizing.
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Not so fast
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gun control probably couldn't have prevented this. But one properly trained person with a concealed weapons permit could have ended it before a couple of dozen more people died. You're fitting the events to your agenda, it would seem.
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I don't get it
[Read the article: Yeah, well, other than winning the White House and all]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How is it a victory for the empowerment of women that the most powerful woman in America got that way through marrying a powerful man (and then staying beside him as he made a sham of their marriage)?
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Terrified Morons
[Read the article: Pit bulls are innocent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some things in life have risks. One thing is for sure: whether you live in a safety bubble or not, you're going to die at some point.
Dog haters and safety zealots use this kind of stereotype as fuel. Remember when we tried breed-specific legislation with people in the U.S.? Like, when blacks were considered fractional human beings? That was a bad idea. So is hatred of "pit bulls" whatever that means.
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Yeehaw
[Read the article: USA! USA! USA!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thiiiiis is ouuuuuuur couuuuntryyyyyy!!!
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A modest proposal and a question
[Read the article: Ellen, the dog bullies and me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1. I propose that we clothe and educate dogs and cats. This will help them be happy and in touch with their feelings. If you don't agree with this, you are obviously a hateful bigot. Let me put it this way: I assume that animals have feelings (though I can't actually prove it), and therefore we must spend much energy making sure that these feelings are massaged and not hurt. Then we will have finally solved the pressing issue of domestic animal happiness and contentment. (This also means we have to let them keeping shitting on the floor. I can vouch that floor-shitting makes many dogs happy regardless of other factors.)
2. I assume all the shelter defenders here are strict vegans, right? Because unless the answer is yes, the hypocrisy on display is mind-boggling. Sort of like Salon-reading urban elites who would never kill, skin, gut, etc. an animal but are happy to eat a tasty animal after other people (non-Salon types, mostly) do the messy stuff.
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Actually
[Read the article: Ellen, the dog bullies and me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am very much a liberal and I love dogs. But I don't pretend that they are human or human-like. That is why I like them. Humans are mostly assholes. Like the person who said pets aren't merchandise. Wanting something to be true does not make it true. A dog is not a person. A dog is not a person. Seriously, pay attention. A dog is not a person.
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Beating a Dead Horse by Dan Shaughnessy
[Read the article: What's worse than watching your teams lose? Watching them win]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Steve Almond, you are an idiot. Sports fans in Boston do not like watching their teams lose. It's literally ridiculous to say this.
This absurd notion is the creation of a bored, cynical media, led by the unprofessional zealot (and Gordon Edes' curly headed boyfriend) Dan Shaughnessy, who has made tons of money pimping the alleged "Curse" in his book and column. This is the kind of horsesh!t the national media picks up on and flogs to death on slow news days or to fill time between other cliches. And people who only pay attention during the playoffs start believing it's true and you have a bunch of non-fans walking around babbling about imaginary "curses" who probably couldn't tell you half of the starting lineup. There was never a curse. Nobody wants their teams to lose. Idiot.
Boston sports fans want their teams to win games and win championships. This is true of every single one of them I know personally. Anyone who prefers the local team to lose is not a fan but a passive consumer of the soap opera style garbage peddled by the esteemed members of a craven media who have tried (with some success) to run nearly all the star Red Sox out of town at one time or another (see, e.g., Ted Williams, Pedro Martinez, Manny Ramirez, Curt Schilling) based on personal vendettas.
I hope Salon didn't pay you very much to defecate these electrons onto its servers, and I hope you are at least a little bit embarrassed to have your name attached to this steaming pile.
P.S. Worth mentioning again: People who root for a team want that team to win. This includes people in Boston. Idiot.
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Let me get this straight Rebecca
[Read the article: Stay classy, John Edwards ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You think the President of the United States should cry in public? Seriously?
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I guess Krugman has good contacts in Clinton's camp
[Read the article: Paul Krugman criticizes Obama supporters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Between this and the somewhat disingenuous sendup of Obama's healthcare plan earlier this month, he might as well be on the Clinton payroll. Krugman is a reliable liberal, but he comes off as petulant and unprofessional here, and my guess is he's unable to contain his personal bias.
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Only a woman can support reproductive rights
[Read the article: More negative reaction to NARAL]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Even though Hillary Clinton is like a signpost for everything pathetic and useless and frustrating about the modern Democratic Party, Barack Obama does not have a uterus and is therefore not well suited to support abortion rights. I think that is the idea, right?