Letters to the Editor
H.T.
Published Letters: 22
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Thank you Gina Fattore from a truely Austen obsessed reader
[Read the article: Pride and pathetic]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Finally Salon has posted an unfavorable piece about this blasphemy of a movie! After the gushing review by S. Zacharek I lost all hope that Salon would stick up for my beloved Jane Austen and her vision of upper class England. Austen should never be compared to the also wonderful Bronte sisters, they were romantics who wrote gothic love stories while Austen wrote witty ‘parlor’ satires in a very impartial third person.
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Sick People
[Read the article: Dividing the man from his mother]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dirty minds. Everyone who wrote in complaining about the 'sexual ness' in Ayelet's column should be ashamed of themselves. I don’t think her kids will be messed up from hugs and kisses and cuddling... It's important for children to have affection that’s not sexual and hers is not sexual. These people who are afraid to show their affection for fear of being thought of as 'weird' will have a hell of allot more messed up kids than Ayelet's. Like animals (dogs, cats, etc.) children rely on physical contact for reassurance.
By the way I am in no way saying that children are animals.
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Haha
[Read the article: Weighty matters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mr. Keillor:
Thank you for yet another amusing piece. One of my favorite things about you (after your impeccable taste in poetry and red shoes) is your ability to poke gentle fun at fat and skinny people, democrats, and republicans, Lutherans and Catholics etc.
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Good Idea
[Read the article: Letters to the Editor update]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is great! I have wished all along that Salon would find a way to regulate the letter writers who turn every comment into a personal argument. These people are childish and their letters detract from Salon’s wonderful letter pages. Some of the best letters to the editor I have ever read were in my cities main newspaper, and if someone replied to a letter writer in a courteous and well written way their letter would be published the next week.
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Answer to the veggie crusaders!
[Read the article: I'm so vegan it hurts]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We do not know whether or not plants have feelings and souls and can feel love and jealousy, maybe they do maybe they don’t.
But come on people looking a potato in the eye is a lot easier than looking into the big soulful brown eyes of Bessie the cow whilst slashing her jugular. Try it sometime, have a friendship with a potato, care for it, and talk to it, nourish it, and then let me know if it loves you back. I’m an animal owner and find it so very hurtful that people could say killing an animal, one of Gods creatures is no worse than uprooting a carrot.
Until you can prove that plants have souls I will eat vegetables and not animals.
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Answer to DurianJoe
[Read the article: I'm so vegan it hurts]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you so much....thats what I was trying to say. Your head is much clearer than mine.
I hope your letter puts the nit-wits in their place.
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huh?
[Read the article: Whoa, Nellie!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What exactly is Traister’s point? That fashion writers are dumb or shallow? That horses do not or should not inspire fashion? Or is it the flip flops? She doesn’t like flip flops…. I get it now.
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Nonfiction
[Read the article: The new true West]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My recommendations for western lit. Include ‘Horse Tradin’ by Ben Green, a very amusing memoir of a young cowboy in the early part of the 20th centaury. And Larry McMurtry’s ‘The Colonial and Little Missie’ a wonderful biography of Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill Cody.
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A Tree Growns in Brooklyn
[Read the article: Destination: Brooklyn]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]RE: 3reddogs
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn was writen in the early 40s and set during the turn of the 20th centuary, ending at the beginning of WWl.
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Goodbye Dear Mr. Altman
[Read the article: Goodbye, Mr. Altman]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow I had no idea there was so much sexism in Altman’s films. I don’t recall any in Nashville, could you point it out? And honestly in McCabe and Mrs. Miller how exactly do you female and male feminists think an all male logging camp in the 1800s treated a wagon load of prostitutes? And in regards to M*A*S*H* are you telling me there was no sexism in the army in the 50s? Well I’ve got news for you arm chair critics…its still there! Sexism is still in the army. I hope you get over the shock in time for thanksgiving.
Thank you Mr. Altman for Nashville, Popeye and The Long Goodbye and A Prairie Home Companion. May you rest in peace and win the Oscar for best director in February of 07.
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Love This Article!
[Read the article: How to be an asparagus superhero]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have been buying asparagus like mad for the last few weeks…. My favorite recipe is to slice a normal sized bunch diagonally into 1.5 inch pieces, blanch it for 1.5 to 2 minutes… shock in cold water then make a dressing of soy sauce, rice vinegar, sugar and toasted sesame oil…and seeds. The ratio’s should be to taste…. I like mine sweet and sour… you should have a ¼ cup of dressing. Chill the salad at least an hour and serve.
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Zoophiles are the same as child molesters and murderers
[Read the article: Beyond the Multiplex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Molesting animals (yes that’s what it is) is a terrible crime and the people who support the animal molesters are just as guilty as the perpetrators. Animals to not consent…that’s pure bullshit, spewed by perverted minds. The thought of someone molesting my precious horses or any horse in the world fills me with so much pain and anger, the way some people feel when a child has been molested or someone shoots 30 people on a college campus…. The people that do these things are sick and disgusting and are committing crimes against, God, Nature, Humanity, and Animals. Just because the horse or dog or cow is not physically injured does not mean it’s not being harmed. The more publicity these kinds of things get the more they will happen. Salon should be extremely ashamed of themselves for publishing this article… and the man who made the movie (yes I know…it’s only a movie review….) is a sick perverted man. Next he will make a movie about how if a 5 year old boy consents to sex with an adult then it is okay to do it… he consented! The people who say…so what ? who does it hurt to molest animals? Are either molesters themselves or idiots.
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Wonderful!
[Read the article: Why I pick lettuce for the Black Panthers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Great article, thanks Salon!