Letters to the Editor
greenphoenix
Published Letters: 4 Editor's Choice: 2
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Denny Green was right
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not sure how you lay this at Green's feet. His team was up 23-10 with FIVE MINUTES REMAINING. The reason for this, without question, was the running game. If James hadn't fumbled the ball the Bears would have gotten the ball back with three minutes remaining still down two scores. This was hardly bad play calling.
Putting the ball into a Bear's swarming secondary that has a fantastic turnover differential, where it could be picked on a deflection or otherwise, would have been risky. He had the clock and he used up the time.
Green ate up huge chunks of clock by executing a running game that required two fumbles, an 85 yard punt return, and a missed FG chip shot by a stone cold pro bowl kicker to beat. How the heck is that Green's fault?
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Maybe It's Simple
[Read the article: How little we know about Cho]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe he was just a sick young man suffering from deep psychosis. Why does it have to be more than that? Sometimes people are just crazy.
I really am amazed by our desperate desire for explanations that will make all this fit into some metaphor for our society.
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Let's do the Math
[Read the article: Go, go, go, Godzilla; the Chinese stock market version]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not to rain on the parade of these numbers, but this seems unlikely to me. Let's see:
300,000 accounts per day
~9 million accounts per month
~108 million accounts per year
That's ten percent of the entire Chinese population.
How many Chinese even own computers?
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Poor rhetoric
[Read the article: Pit bulls are innocent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Unfortunately the author of this article does not give any substantive evidence for or against the behavioral tendencies of any breed of dogs. There is a lot of anecdotal discussion, some ad hominim attacks of "self-described experts", and the implication that the hatred of pit bulls is somehow racist.
The only section with any substantive data is the challenge in providing a reasonable definition of breed, an important issue. Nonetheless, what I still don't know at the end of this rather tiresome article is whether there is any specific data about pit bull attacks, or in fact of dog attacks by any breed.
You can do better than publishing this kind of thing.