Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 2069
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Re: Comments
[Read the article: Michael Gordon, the administration's best friend at the Times]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Good for you on your new digs, Glenn.
The comment format sux. Have to page through, and can't search the full comments section using text search. Can't you see if they can do something about that, Glenn. For all its headaches, Haloscan was user-friendly....
- Arne
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OT: comment site mechanics
[Read the article: Gen. Pace repudiates administration's accusations against Iran]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Umm, yeah. Why no links allowed? Big drawback. As is the inability to display all comments on one page and scroll up and down.
Also, any thoughts about resurrecting the comments from pre-Holoscan days in the archives?
Cheers,
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@Bamage
[Read the article: Neoconservatives hate liberty as much as they love war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Does anyone know
how to show [more/all] "letters" on a given page?
Has arne L. been here yet?
Yeah, I posted a couple times. Hate the comments sections (and that was in my first post, IIRC), and for the same reason you do, I think.
Glenn, you really need to get the comment section onto one page (and a but more condensed), or you'll drive folks away. Maybe I'm an old fuddy-duddy, but I'm used to the comments in one bloc where I can wheel up and down and skip through the stuff I don't have time for easily. Other blogs that have this paged comments are similarly annoying, and I've avoided them.
But great article, Glenn, and glad you're swinging a bigger hammer at the execrable RW foamers from a position of more visibility.
Cheers,
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Haven't seen Arne...
[Read the article: Neoconservatives hate liberty as much as they love war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Posting under my old Salon account (I've had a subscription for a while) as my login name (and the first part of my longtime e-mail addy): "zuch" (those with Internet skills and any interest can find the rest of it if they want to converse privately).
My sweetie said a while back that she wished I didn't use my real name for political blogs, and when Salon defaulted to the "zuch" nom de plume, I went with it. If enough people think I ought to get back to signing my stuff, I'll do it.....
Cheers,
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Re: Comments section
[Read the article: Neoconservatives hate liberty as much as they love war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The principal inconvenience is that not all comments appear on one page, which I agree is less than ideal, even annoying, but if that's the worst problem we have to work on (and I think it is), that's a relatively minor one.
NO. The principal inconvenience is no links (i.e. no
Cheers,
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I said....
[Read the article: Neoconservatives hate liberty as much as they love war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"NO. The principal inconvenience is no links (i.e. no"
No, that's NOT what I said. But Salon mangled it and cut it off. Damn you, Salon Comments, all the standard HTML stuff is whacked, and you can't use accepted format to say what you want (albeit Haloscan had that annoying bug with indentation for blockquotes [which was a distinctive mark for "sysprog"'s comments] which it never fixed).
Looks like Salon's "HTML parser" is third rate. They need to hire someone who knows how to write one, rather than what looks like a student project effort to interpret five tags only (and then only one at a time).
Cheers,
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Re: A vote for Arne
[Read the article: Neoconservatives hate liberty as much as they love war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]William Timberman said:
Zuch's okay -- I'd already decided I could live with it...
Well, I s'pose I can too. I guess that means I'll be going from "Z" to "A"....
Cheers,
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@Barbara Collingsworth
[Read the article: The "fantastic job" Newsweek's Richard Wolffe claims he is doing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You wrote:
The anti-war conceit that President Bush "lied" to Congress is getting really old....
Just because you don't like to see it shoved in your face over and over again doesn't make it "old", much as you would like it to become "old news" and disappear.
... Both chambers have Intelligence Committees with the power to subpoena almost anybody they please, including the head of the CIA. If they had any doubts about the intelligence underlying this decision, they had ample time to ferret out the truth for themselves.
Ummm, nooooo. The House was firmly in the control of the Republicans, who wouldn't so much as let the Dems even sneeze. I'd point out that while the Dems should have been more forceful and louder, the Republicans to a man (except, perhaps Ron Paul) were all just loving Dubya's "I'm a war preznit" act.... If some of the Dems performed badly, essentially all the Republicans did, and that more than anything else setthe stage for the disasters to follow.
Why don't all you courageous bloggers out there start writing about how the CIA totally blew its main assignment, which was to find out what was going on in Iraq and tell the president, instead of simply regurgitating propaganda that just so happens to match your ideological agenda?...
Why don't you explain how Tenet got the Presidential Medal of Freedom for 'taking a bullet' for Dubya if the CIA was the ones "at fault"? But, as the recent information about TFSMOTFOTE Feith is showing, it was Feith's crapola that was getting the headlines, and the CIA that was far more circumspect. But just sit tight and enjoy, Barbara: Now that we have Dems in power, we'll get some real hearings (unlike Sen. Roberts's lame act and broken promises), real subpoenas, and some real light shined on the machinations of Cheney, the OSP and the maladministration.
Cheers,
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@ Bird Dog
[Read the article: A hallmark of idiocy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]" Attacking the right instead of the idiot commenters at HuffPo
"Typical Glenn Greenwald. A classic 'look over there' response to hardline leftists behaving badly."
Huh? I don't see people defending any "idiot commenters at Huffpo". OTOH, as Glenn points out, the very similar "idiot comments" from RW foamer heroes such as Ann Coulter not only get her accolades and cheers, but speaking money and repeat invites.
If this point fails to penetrate your cranium, "Bird Dog", you just may be a RW foamer.
Let's see you demonstrate: Can you call the likes of Instapundit, Ann Coulter, and company to task for what you find so distasteful in the anonymous comments of a few people in the comments section of Huffpo?
Cheers,