Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 55 Editor's Choice: 2
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Please, Just Let the Kid Be
[Read the article: Is my 13-year-old son gay?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Do nothing, except what Cary suggested.
Okay?
Really.
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Zzz
[Read the article: Response from ABC News re: the Saddam-anthrax reports]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn: This was way too long and slightly hysterical in tone. Lay off the adverbs for awhile. "False" works better than "totally false," and so on.
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The headline is wrong
[Read the article: Firing Imus was the right thing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who "fired" Imus?
Jesus.
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Another outstanding essay
[Read the article: Upending the Mayberry Machiavellis]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Incomparable, in content and style (Greenwald, take note), as ever.
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Good job
[Read the article: Playing chess with Kurt Vonnegut]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Andrew--Wonderfully done. Thank you.
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Guess you can't run the same headline twice...
[Read the article: Black rappers made him do it!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Joan, NOW Imus has been fired.
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Good Riddance
[Read the article: No more whining excuses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Imus is a nasty thug.
So is Howard Stern. And Rush Limbaugh...
May they and all their ilk be run out of town, with great civility, at the wrong end of pointy sticks.
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Zzz
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Another slow week in aviation, eh, Patrick?
And soon--a glossary! Oooh!
Hey, how's that 737 rudder repair investigation coming along?
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Dear "King":
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You opined: "Talk radio did not just get smarter or kinder or more inclusive because Don Imus got canned."
You're wrong.
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Loony or misunderstood?
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Patrick, perhaps you might share your reaction to this tidbit:
http://news.airwise.com/story/view/1176093646.html
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This Just In:
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]U.S. Embassy Jakarta
U.S. Consulate General Surabaya
Warden Message
April 17, 2007
Indonesia has suffered a series of serious aviation incidents and accidents in recent months that raise questions about the safety practices of Indonesian air carriers and their oversight by the Indonesian Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). On April 16, 2007, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it had revised Indonesia’s safety oversight category from Category 1 to Category 2 due to serious concerns about DGCA’s safety oversight and operational control systems. Category 2 indicates that the FAA has assessed the Government of Indonesia’s Civil Aviation Authority as not being in compliance with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) aviation safety standards for the oversight of Indonesia’s air carrier operations.
Okay, Patrick. Give us something worthwhile to chew on. Your thoughts?
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Sports can go to hell
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Along with the thugs who enable the macho, preening culture that define them.
"King," your best option was to have written, "The corporate world of Big Sport so pales in comparison to what really defines human life as to be without even its usual trivial substance today. I'm taking a break."
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Well, I'll be Damned
[Read the article: My vegan friend insists I justify myself]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cary actually makes sense, and reasonably directly to boot.
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Mr Jones hit it:
[Read the article: My sister has become a monster cop!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"The fact that someone actually wants to be a cop should automatically disqualify them [sic] getting the job."
Aside from the lousy syntax, Jonesy, yer on the mark.
Love the non-very-bright-high-school bullies call, too.
C'mon, people. Cops and crooks--merely a matter of perspective. The DNA is identical.
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You must be joshing
[Read the article: Goodbye to the Fix, for now]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're *keeping* Video Dog?
Gawd, what a waste of bandwidth. Talk about duplicating a thousand other dedicated (and far better) video websites...
Please. Kill VD now. Put it, and us, out of our collective misery.
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Christ but this is asinine
[Read the article: "Year of the Dog" contest: Submission No. 1]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is there anything more to say?
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On the Karmic Front...
[Read the article: At her majesty's pleasure]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sometimes bad things happen to bad people.
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Illuminating as ever
[Read the article: George Tenet, spook for all seasons]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you.
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I'm in the Same Place
[Read the article: Am I an alcoholic?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And LW, I know (and Cary does too, but he's pulling his punches), that not too much farther down the road you will meet true, no-mistake, alcoholism.
I like Scotch. More, I need it in the evening. It gets me ready for sleep. This is not, by any measure (previous nitwit respondents notwithstanding) a good thing. It is a crutch. It is nearly an addiction. Is there a difference?
There are two issues for you: The booze and the husband.
Does the booze make living with the hubby bearable? That's a big question. If so, the first step is to address the hubby's shortcomings, including, very possibly, leaving the hubby to his illiteracy and ESPN fandom (or am I reading too much into this?) and moving on.
If not--if hubby is who you wanted when you married him and remains your beloved--then you must ask what else is missing. What's the booze providing?
Replacing one drug with another (Xanax? Jesus-'ing-Christ!) is absurd. What are you trying to medicate?
Answer the above and at least you'll have a start on determining what absence booze fills.
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Um, What?
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is cringe-worthy, Parade magazine material.
C'mon, BB. Try at least go get beyond banality.
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Wow.
[Read the article: My new assistant laughs at everything I say]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A sensible, succinct answer for a change.
(Feel free to blurb that.)
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Gary has a point.
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here's a thought: This (and last week's) cartoon would never make it into The New Yorker. The SF Chronicle, sure. Various suburban weeklies, certainly.
But is it what a plurality of Salon readers expects? Doubtful.
(Admittedly, Video Dog does drag down the demographic, but still.)
Moralizing whimsy is fine. Just not in (a literary) Salon.
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Outstanding.
[Read the article: The imperial vice presidency]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Honest to god, what poetry.
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The "Robb Report"?
[Read the article: Ask the Pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh sweet Jesus.
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Not bad.
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not outstanding, but not cringe-inducing. And agreed: Ain't nothin' new under the sun, so who gives a fig if the kicker is recycled.
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Becky, Try Watching "BBC World" Chicks
[Read the article: No apologies, Katie Couric!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They have the genuine presence that Couric not only lacks, but does an appalling job of trying to fake.
To coin a phrase: It's not gender, stupid. It's ability.
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Child-Free Restaurants
[Read the article: Flying the child-unfriendly skies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh, what bliss that would be.
The sublime wisdom of, "Children should be seen and not heard" starts to reveal itself once we normal people reach age 30 or so.
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Cost and Cretins: Why Theaters Suck
[Read the article: Beyond the Multiplex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's been at least five years since I watched a film in a theater. First, ticket prices became absurdly high; second, audience behavior had continued its decades-long descent into the gutter.
And it's not just teens. Middle-aged couples narrating the film to each other. Slick suits and their g-damned cellphones. Knuckle-draggers who use the seat in front as their personal ottomans.
Thanks. I'll stay at home and skip the vaunted communal experience in favor of a big-enough image which will soon be in HD as well.
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Um, Who Cares About Your Ratings
[Read the article: Why Blockbuster is gaining on Netflix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You won't switch DVD-mailing services because you'll "lose" your opinions about films? Is it a memory thing? Are you going senile at the tender age of 30?
"Let's see. I just can't remember whether I enjoyed 'Borat.' Hmm."
Criminy.
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"Isn't it great to live in a land that's so mature about nudity?"
[Read the article: We're so over Vanessa Hudgens' naked pictures]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh, yes. I needed a good long laugh.
Farhad, you sweet, weirdly named boy. You otta be writing for The Simpsons.