Letters to the Editor
aarinsane
Published Letters: 12 Editor's Choice: 2
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Garry was a little harsh on Breathed, but...
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think Garry was a little harsh on Berkeley in his post, but please refrain from smearing him with your "mommas basement" tropes. Dig into his letters and you will find the peer review so desperately lacking on the left. The man is a democrat and a war veteran with a strong sense of the realpolitik needed to turn our country around. We on the left ignore his demographic to our own peril.
And Garry, did you not ever have any "transcendent peach" moments in Vietnam? Never a tasty drag off an American cigarette after a tense night of scouting? Never stolen moments savoring the memories held in a photo of loved ones? Never sharing a joke with your brothers in arms in the face of violent death?
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vista is a joke played on the masses
[Read the article: Microsoft on Mac gains: Apple's not even close]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Working at a small company that services home and small business computer users, i must say that vista is a joke. Though our sales numbers are relatively small, the number of people coming to us looking for brand new machines with windows XP installed on them is far higher than the number of people looking for Vista.
Microsoft's self-important statement of its own ubiquitousness is nothing more than a statement to its shareholders, reassuring them that "despite some successes of the Federation, we are still the motherfucking borg, bitch".
The strength of their sales numbers is more a reflection of the disposable nature of windows machines that have a prime installation life of two or three years before they become more expensive to maintain than to replace.
If they had merely released an uber-pimped version of XP, their sales numbers would be higher, as many diehard windows users are still waiting for hardware prices to come down enough to make a machine utilizing Vista's eye candy affordable.
Mac is growing and the problem for microsoft is that every customer lost to the big Apple represents a top dollar consumer who has jumped ship in the realization that all of Microsoft's size and power do not represent a commensurate gain for the consumer.
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this guy can sound-byte my big one
[Read the article: Honk if you want to stop global warming]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Grandstanding crap like this helps no one.
This same statistical cherry-picking is the M.O. of the carbon polluters themselves.
What about the carbon footprint of poor health and the massive medical costs that ensue after decades of couch-potatodom?
What about the cradle-grave-impact of the auto industry?
We evolved through exercise and activity! anything advocating less than physical vigor advocates a spiritual torpor and a calculated helplessness designed to help vegan-totalitarians sell books.
His points are lost in his pointlessness.
Bike to the co-op and feel life in your body!
We are alive to breathe, eat and live...
Cars shall ever represent an external mediation of the human spirit.
Grandstanding is for Suckers...
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can the Vlog!!
[Read the article: Is rape off-limits for laughs?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]seriously,
it was kind of cool to see what Tracy looked like, but I seriously can't stand to wait for a V-log to load and play. I can read in twenty seconds what it would take 3 or 4 minutes to cover in a Vlog post.
Not to mention the deaf/hearing impaired, don't leave them out of these discussions. Salon is really cool and Broadsheet is no exception, but you've got to stay focused and not get "new media crappy" on us.
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don't be too hard on yourself, Leonard...
[Read the article: Eliot Spitzer's monumental fall from grace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You can still be a hero and have faults. I still think that Spitzer has earned his praise long before this reason to condemn him. Of course we still don't know all of the facts. It could be much worse than it appears, though it might be as simple as him paying for sex once and getting caught. Is he an antiprostitution crusader caught up in hypocracy? Or is this simply his weakness shown to the public?
It was pretty stupid though, regardless.
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I think you're missing something here
[Read the article: Your very own climate change Victory Garden]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your blog post today is kind of driftless compared to the focus I see when you discuss economics. When you write of subprime meltdowns and collaterized debt obligations your writing shines with purpose, while here I feel like I'm reading the hazy reflections of an ex-idealistic fighting through a hangover with coffee and their journal.
I think the point you're missing with Pollan here is that he's saying, "Look, this is as big as World freaking War II. That took a deep understanding of personal sacrifice made manifest in the Victory Garden. Climate Change needs to be seen on these terms as well."
That being said. I'm probably much more like you in my approach than Pollan, but I look to the future knowing things are changing in their cycles and revolutions, so I prepare for the potential absolute need for "Victory Gardens" while enjoying the leisure and freedom currently granted me by the present arrangement. I just hope we can still have our blogs if things get that tense in America.
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throw away comments
[Read the article: Your very own climate change Victory Garden]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]hey, electro robot, i'm trying real hard to figure you out. what do you even mean by "urban hippies are stealing my water"? that doesn't make any sense on many levels. in order for someone to "steal" your water, it has to be yours in the first place. additionally, if you're really speaking of urban hippies you need to consider that they'll probably use a rain barrel if they are in a water-sensitive area.
i'd have to say that the lawns of Arizona, Nevada and Atlanta have diverted more water from fruitful uses than you will ever be able to blame "hippies" on. i'll even give the golf courses a pass and say their water use is justified. that still leaves us with countless decorative lawns maintained solely so that some yahoo in the desert can be proud of how good his immigrant-labor maintained lawn looks.