Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 260 Editor's Choice: 22
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To Grad Student and JTD:
[Read the article: Pit bulls are innocent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Grad Student: Those are good suggestions. The only one that I really object to is muzzling 'big dogs'in public. when I was in Europe last year I was not surprised to find that dogs had a lot more latitude that they do here. It was common to see them hang out in cafes and go into stores with their owners. However, there were strict rules about muzzling your dog in areas where the general public were in very close contact with them; like subways, buses etc. I have no problem with that. But to just muzzle a dog when you are out walking it on the street when you already have it on a leash is neither neccessary nor humane. Muzzles make it harder for the dog to breath and like people they don't appreciate a cage on their face.
I also don't understand the prejudice against big dogs. The only dogs I shy away from are the insecure little yappy ones that always seem to be nipping people. If I have to muzzle my Malinois in public then I don't see why some owner of a crappy little pekingese should get a pass on the muzzle; especially since their dog is more likely to bite someone than mine is (my appologies to pekingese owners. I live in China and in the past six months two of the awful little, bug eyed humunculi have attacked my very docile and friendy so called 'attack' dog).
JTD: I don't think you understand dogs very well. Dogs are happy wherever they have a loving, caring owner that gives them regular exercise, affection and discipline; whether it be the city or country, an apartment or a ranch. To suggest that we dog owners have to move to the country if we wish to own a dog is pretty nervy. Dogs have been an integral part of the city long before you were around and will be long after you're dead and gone. I guess what I'm saying is get use to it or perhaps move into one of those souless, gated communities that have draconian lifestyle rules that fit your particular pathology.
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Wow, that's embarrassing!
[Read the article: Art movies: R.I.P.]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Camille has moved from the realm of jaded pseudo academic to just plain embarrassing. What can top this:
“Did Mrs. John Edwards, playing phone tag, put her foot in her mouth by single-handedly rehabilitating Ann Coulter's reputation for seat-of-the-pants, high-testosterone counterpunching?”
After I read her equally embarrassing comments on film I stopped reading. I was turning red— not for Camille but for the editors that allowed that drivel to go to print.
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Cognitive Dissonance 101
[Read the article: Jesus is my dorm advisor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Biology teacher Jennifer Gruenke answers students' questions on two levels: one for the secular world and one for Christians."
In other words, the main subjects taught at Patrick Henry are intellectual dishonesty and cognitive dissonance.
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kjames
[Read the article: Jesus is my dorm advisor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The quote is: "When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis
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Please try again Salon!
[Read the article: "Big in every way"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A brood of ‘B’ list celebrities (with a couple ‘A’ listers thrown in for good measure) commenting on brief brushes with the greatest tenor who ever stepped on a stage. That was a deeply impoverished sendoff. With all due respect Salon, the big man deserved a much more fitting memorial than that.
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A Ridiculous Man?
[Read the article: Opera's gateway drug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]D Roberts, your comments remind me of the backlash that academics get from their peers when they have the temerity to write a book that everyone can understand. It's true that Pavarotti did some very mediocre duets and popular recordings but this does not detract from his overall talent or his incredible catalogue of recorded works.
And Bocelli? Bocelli never had Pavarotti's range, depth, control, sustain or resonance. You do violence to the great tenor by comparing the two.
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The highlights were...
[Read the article: Highlights from the Republican debate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...about 14 minutes into the debate when they went to a dog food commercial. Those puppies were cute!
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It's that time of the month again!
[Read the article: How secure are you? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Paglia bloviation #12,890: "Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendence."
Camille, I'd like to leave my "arc of transcendence" all over this article.
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Dear Editors,
[Read the article: Hit her, baby, one more time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For a magazine that proports to cater to the educated and literate set, it seems to be that there is just way too much material on Lindsey, Britney and a litany of other uninteresting teeny-boppers.
Is it just me?
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Poor Britney
[Read the article: Hit her, baby, one more time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't think you can compare Britney's situation to the example of the cruel bastards who chased the moose around the lake.
Britney supposedly has enough brains to just get out of the water.
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1+1=?
[Read the article: Here's what waterboarding looks like]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mukasey doesnt know if waterboarding is illegal but he does know that torture is illegal. He feels waterboarding is "repugnant", knows that the technique simulates drowning and that the military has banned it-- but still can't make the simple logical leap to classify it as torture!
Under normal circumstances I would question this guy's powers of deductive reasoning. But what I think we realy have is this case is just another example of a 'yes man' being appointed to cover this administration's very vunerable collective ass.
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Bukk 63
[Read the article: How George Bush really found Jesus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You’re basically right, the public doesn't really care much about it. They don't care about it because forty percent of the population of this country finds the president’s so called 'conversion' to be a sign of authenticity, humility and character. People don't want to see it for what it really was; the desperate act of a gullible, opportunistic huckster looking for something that could break his fall.
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aeschylus
[Read the article: How George Bush really found Jesus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He's most likely both. Who says the two are incompatable?
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Authoritarian Mindset
[Read the article: How George Bush really found Jesus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A few weeks ago in Salon, Glenn Greenwald posted this link to where you could get a free download of Bob Altemeyer's book ‘The Authoritarians’ http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/ .
I read it in one day and found it to be the best single volume on the psychological mindset of the Bush junta (authoritarian leaders) and his minions (authoritarian followers). It went a long way in explaining the weird pathology of the neocons and the religious right.
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Hmmm...
[Read the article: Welcome to the 700 Club, Rudy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hmmm, what would I rather have, an endorsement by Pat Robertson--or the clap?