Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 26 Editor's Choice: 3
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Blech
[Read the article: Girls, girls, girls -- in college!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'd seen the ads on pitchfork.com for awhile and chose not to click on it. I finally did after seeing this post and sort of wish I hadn't. What's a 24 year old doing as a junior in college anyway?
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I don't know . . .
[Read the article: WSJ bests Newsweek, calling gay couple "couple"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe this is a sign that homosexual couples are being more accepted in daily life when they are just a "couple," and not a "gay couple". Maybe it's putting gay couples on equal footing with all couples, since you would never say "heterosexual couples" in the first place. If you see two women and they are referred to as a "couple," I think we can figure out the rest on our own. I love Broadsheet, but sometimes I wonder if you read into things just a little too much.
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Spencer
[Read the article: Daily Download: "Stadiums and Shrines II," Sunset Rubdown]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I adore Spencer Krug and everything he has made musically, and would absolutely follow him anywhere if he would let me!
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So sick of Chris Hanson
[Read the article: Miss America: Crime fighter]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think we can all agree that it's a good thing people are catching pedophiles. But does it really need to be plastered all over television?
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Blake
[Read the article: "Idol" watch: Beat-boxing, Bon Jovi and Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Blake's performance was the best thing I've seen on American Idol in years- it was fun, original and totally hot. In fact, he actually got me to call and vote for the first time. I don't consider myself a part of the "Tiger Beat" set, but I've been a Blake fan ever since he took on the Zombies and the Cure.
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Offer
[Read the article: Will the Wall Street Journal become another Fox News?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Did I miss something? I thought the Bancrofts rejected the offer.
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Campaign Theme
[Read the article: Celine for president]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Does this mean Obama's theme song should be some hip indie rock jam? How about the Go Team's "The Power is On" or LCD Soundsystem's "Yeah"? Spoon's "Something to Look Forward to" or Annie's "The Greatest Hit?" This game is fun.
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Jigga-what?
[Read the article: Mnemonic for 11 planets sure beats "Roy G. Biv," "Homes"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A song called "My Very Magic Carpet" sounds so very, very dirty to me.
I have never heard of these two extra planets- I feel like adding new planets would warrant some sort of press coverage when I've always known there to be 9? Much like the coverage I thought happened when they downgraded Pluto relatively recently?
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DMX
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sorry, but DMX's reaction trumps 50 Cent's.
http://www.thedailyswarm.com/swarm/dmx-barack-obama/
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Moral of the story?
[Read the article: Wal-Mart's slow-food epiphany ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hooray for high gas prices!
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Love this!
[Read the article: Psst! Wanna write an Op-Ed?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am an expert in:
Taking standardized exams.
Networking.
Indie rock.
Sarcasm.
Hedge fund operations.
Remembering the names and important facts about most everyone I meet. Which I suppose, helps with the networking.
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Correlation
[Read the article: 1,250,444 ways to please your man]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I stopped reading women's magazines in college when I realized there was an inverse correlation with my reading those magazines and my self-esteem.
I also realized there was an inverse correlation with my self-esteem and hanging out with guys who read Maxim. So I stopped that too.
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Flat screens in recession
[Read the article: Don't worry, be happy, buy a flat-screen TV]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I believe during the last economic downturn new TV purchases went up as well. The idea is that people cut back on vacations, movies, entertainment, etc. and stay home- with their brand new flat screen TV.
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McCain
[Read the article: Cindy McCain's half sister will vote for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please, someone put these in-laws in an ad already!
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JP and Goldman
[Read the article: How J.P. Morgan escaped the squeeze]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Remember that Goldman Sachs also successfully escaped the subprime debacle.
What's also interesting is that the big investment banks that that did get killed on subprime must also have been the ones selling the CDS protection to these astute hedge funds. Might have provided an early clue?
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So, let me get this straight . . .
[Read the article: The Sarah Palin money bomb]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since Sarah Palin, Obama has raised 8x as much as McCain?
Perhaps this bodes well.
I've donated twice since last Friday.
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Russia
[Read the article: Up with Couric! ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think you mean "I can see Russia from my house."
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Short-selling
[Read the article: What's happening to the real economy?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Andrew, don't forget about the effect of the SEC ban on short-selling of financial firms. With thousands of hedge funds rushing to cover their shorts in financials and driving up their stock prices, the government has continued to "bail out" the financial sector. Here here, planned economy!
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Tag
[Read the article: McCain, the missing moderate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From what I understand, democratic presidential candidates always seem to get the most liberal tag during election years because they typically only come back to vote for the bills where the dems need their help, i.e., the more "liberal" bills. Hence Obama's "less liberalness" in 2005 and 2006.
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Dow
[Read the article: The House votes for a bailout]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Only" 200 points?
The passing of the bill was probably already mostly priced in to the markets- there was no real doubt it wasn't going to pass today.
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Hedge funds
[Read the article: Krugman: "We are all Brazilians now"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hedge fund performance was certainly bad, but it was still not as bad as the stock market's performance this month.
And you may not have any sympathy for the wealthy hedge fund investor, but high net worth individuals are becoming increasingly smaller parts of hedge fund investment bases in favor of pensions, endowments, unions and other large institutional players investing on the common person's behalf. We are all hedge fund investors!
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Question
[Read the article: The fatal flaw in McCain's mortgage plan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How is buying up mortgages at refinancing them at current value different from refinancing directly (at face value, as Levithan says)? Is it that the government would fund the difference in the first case, but not the second? Just looking for some clarity. Thanks!
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Good ones!
[Read the article: "Dangerous threesomes": The finalists]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All terrifying. #2!
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Markets
[Read the article: Investors want change: Dow closes up 305]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I work in the hedge fund industry. Hedge funds love Obama.
I attribute the rally to general relief that the election is over and there will no longer be any uncertainty. I predict a dip tomorrow, when reality sets in once again due to the ubiquitous "fears of recession". Because the market is easily distracted.
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Monolines
[Read the article: Michael "Liar's Poker" Lewis comes home]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The major player in the CDO spiral not mentioned in the article is the monoline insurer- the MBIAs and Ambacs that guaranteed the CDO tranches, thus "supporting" the rating agencies' absurd AAA ratings, and when the defaults finally spread into these AAA tranches they couldn't cover all the claims. Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman of Pershing Square shorted MBIA and spent a year trying to get people to understand their implication in the sub-prime debacle before turning his attention to Fannie and Freddie.
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Relegated
[Read the article: Let them eat quail]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Forget about the menu, I'm more horrified that this is the type of stuff that comes from the "Office of the First Lady." If Hillary won the presidency, would this be coming from the Office of the First Man? Now that's progress.