Letters to the Editor
mray65
Published Letters: 17
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Omni magazine
[Read the article: "The World Without Us"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Years ago, I'm guessing 1990 or 1991, Omni magazine published a short story that started with the death of the last man on earth and then followed the gradual decay and disappearance from the planet of all signs that man had ever been here.
It was a haunting story that I never had the chance to finish, because I was reading it in the lobby of Jiffy Lube and they managed to change the oil in my truck before I got to the end. I always wanted to go back and find that story again. I never learned the name of the author.
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Good for him, but ...
[Read the article: The courage of Mayor Jerry Sanders]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The government should get out of the marriage business entirely. Let the government allow civil unions -- with all the rights and responsibilities currently offered to marriages -- to anyone who wants them.
Then if you really need a marriage -- sanctified by your God or whatever, but entirely free of the government -- your church can handle that.
It's a simple solution, really. But as it takes the opportunity for political gain away from the issue, I doubt it will ever happen.
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Is that right?
[Read the article: No tiny fonts allowed!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Type half an inch high ... swimming on an 18 foot by 22 foot sign?
Classic.
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It depends on what the definition of be be.
[Read the article: Crashing Larry "Don't be evil" Page's wedding]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If the corporate motto were "Do No Evil," maybe Jeff Matthews would have a point. But "Don't Be Evil" allows Page some wiggle room for reality.
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Oh, Dana
[Read the article: "Oh, Dana"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Makes me want to pull out my old Big Star records: I'd rather shoot a woman than a man ...
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The first?
[Read the article: "Jackass" online -- more vomiting, nudity, and defecation!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not sure how you can call this "the first full-length film to be released online." That seems a bit sweeping, and I know of one example from just a few weeks ago: Ed Burns Purple Violets went straight to iTunes, bypassing a theatrical release. Although perhaps if you had said "the first full-length film to be released online that anybody wanted to see ..."
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Large squid
[Read the article: Stop calling it "giant," people -- this squid's "colossal"!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]While I'm usually among the first to jump on the pedantic bandwagon when it comes things like this, I'll take the contrary view here and point out that, unless you're talking about birds, common names really aren't designed to be accurate descriptors of a species. Call it a giant squid, call it a colossal squid, call it a humongous squid, it doesn't really matter ... it's a squid and it's big. If you want to be precise about which species you're referring to, stick with the Latin.
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Sweetie
[Read the article: "Hold on a second, sweetie"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've been wasting a lot of time on Hulu.com lately, and one of the shows I've seen for the first time is Bones. The show itself is moderately interesting, no great work of art, but there is a character — Angela, I think is her name — who constantly addresses her co-workers as "sweetie." She's a professional woman in a professional situation, and I find this habit of hers to be absolutely endearing and in no way condescending. I can't imagine that Obama means it any other way, and frankly I'm much more concerned with actual intentions than with any political shadings that can be shoehorned onto his choice of words.
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Also?
[Read the article: The United Auto Workers vs. California]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Regarding those opening paragraphs: "weak environmental standards [in other countries] suck away U.S. jobs" and "tougher environmental standards [in the U.S.] also threaten U.S. jobs." Isn't that just two ways of saying the same thing?
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Wee
[Read the article: I'm in my 20s, but Wii Fit thinks I'm middle-aged!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That was the best cancer joke I've heard in ages.
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This century?
[Read the article: A boneheaded Bush administration lecture on science]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But has there been any other American administration, this century, that has been more dismissive of science, or more brazenly political in its policy-making?
Has there been any other American administration this century?
No need to limit yourself ...
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Susan
[Read the article: I've got a bow and arrow, and I intend to use them]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, what I read from the books as a child was that Susan was going to Hell because she started to wear lipstick. I always liked her character the best, and that probably had a lot to do with it.
As for the movies, Prince Caspian is far superior to LWW. It was great to see Susan firing her bow. I seem to recall some issue from the first film where the director had to negotiate with the Lewis heir who controls the rights, because the director wanted Susan to be more active with the weapon and what's-his-name didn't. I could be wrong about that, but her character was much better this time around.
The biggest drawback, still: That damn lion speaks entirely in clichés and platitudes.
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re: Stephanie Zacharek was wrong
[Read the article: I've got a bow and arrow, and I intend to use them]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Calibellus, thank you for writing everything I thought of Zacharek's review, but couldn't be bothered to research. I agree 100%.
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And just a bit more
[Read the article: I've got a bow and arrow, and I intend to use them]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The scene at the end where we see Susan and Peter walking with Aslan ... we don't hear their conversation, but we can see it all in Susan's eyes. It's a heart-wrenching moment, and it's entirely human.
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Sexy dating on the Big Blue Bus
[Read the article: Your fuel efficiency is so hot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sadly for me, very few women are turned on by the fact that I gave away my car three years ago.
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Dogs
[Read the article: Critics' Picks]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow ... you liked that Chihuahua trailer? I hated that thing more than I've ever hated anything in my life ... more even than Al Pacino in The Devil's Advocate.
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Insane Troll Logic
[Read the article: On the morality of immigration]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So just because someone else overextends their resources, it's "fair" that I hand over mine?
Hey, I live in a crappy apartment. I chose not to buy a house with an unsustainable mortgage because I knew I couldn't afford it. But you did, so here, let me help you out by tapping into my savings. And while you're at it, go ahead and raise my taxes, too. It's only fair.