Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 43 Editor's Choice: 1
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Kansas Is Dead
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's how she gets the secret of the universe, forgiveness for Shlomo, and out of prison.
Really, though, I'm just posting to join the general jubilation in its overness. I understand that strips have to have a chance to find their audience, but I doubt there was a substantial audience for this strip to find.
If your friends need money for their mothers' operations in the future, please don't put them on the comics page. Slate lets them write features! Nobody reads all the features!
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So, it's Tuesday
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And I go to Salon comics as I always do, and there was... nothing. I couldn't figure out why I was looking at This Modern World again. But... this is better. Certainly better than Kansas O'Flaherty, and even better than WayLay.
I prefer nothing! Although I still expect something. This is kind of a quandary.
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While I'm disappointed there's nothing on Tuesday, it's still an improvement.
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not to sound catty. Maybe you can move Opus to Tuesday? Not having a Salon.com comic on one weekday really interrupts my flow.
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I really like this WayLay
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is this new? Because in the past when I've liked Carol Lay's work, I've found that it's been from the archives. This seems new, though.
Take it as given that we'll have a climate-driven civilization-ending cataclysm. For no good reason, I think of it as losing 999 in every thousand people.
Whatever we want to preserve of civilization will have to leapfrog the time of fast climate changes to a time of slow climate changes, which will allow us to do things like plant crops, predict the movement of animals and define sea lanes. So, we'll do something like this seed store.
And Carol Lay brings up a point which bothers me sometimes. How do we design a store that a nascent hunter gatherer civilization can access, but only when they're developed enough to learn from it and not destroy it? And I think she dramatizes it well; this is great work.
Not to sound Nietzschean, but I love that it's the man's sentimentality that assaults the future. It seems more moral to consume poorly secured seed stores than children. But, he's damaging the future of the entire species with his archaic mortality. I find that poignant.
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Democratically Chosen?
[Read the article: Can Stephen Colbert save America?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here][A] tension that lies at the heart of [Peterson's] thesis. By his own reckoning, the democratically chosen entertainments of the masses are also democracy's enemy....
I don't know that it's correct to call Jay Leno democratically chosen. The idea of making the whole "Assault on Reason," "Manufacturing Consent" argument here seems really time consuming, but I do want to call you on slipping that meme in as a throw away line.
J'Accuse!
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Dimensional Annealing
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]@inedal
You might enjoy something I wrote a few years ago.
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s5i1875
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Skydiving and Reviewing
[Read the article: The K Chronicles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Keef,
Nothing's simpler than going skydiving. Well, most things are simpler than going skydiving. But, it's pretty simple. Call a place and arrange a jump. Since I'm a devoted fan, I'll do a Google search for you. I discounted the first hit, as it wasn't clear where the actual jump was (some places try to mislead you into thinking it won't be very far away,) and found you a place an hour from LA.
https://www.skydiveelsinore.com/payonline/order_2tandem_special.php
Do a tandem jump. I did a static line solo jump my first time, and it's only worth the 8 hour class if you're already committed to making a hobby of it. My second jump I did tandem, and got the free fall. I'll warn you that skydiving is largely a matter of plummeting and then falling slowly, but if it's on the list, it's on the list.
The idea of reviewing is fascinating. It may be a great medium, but getting consistency of review would be difficult unless you drew them all yourself. I might suggest just starting. Review the restaurants, offer to sell them the artwork for the cost of the meal + 40%* and post online at a pay site. Maybe Salon would put them in the Life section.
hth
RFM
* -- assuming that the point of this for you is that you get to eat for free.
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I was thinking how great a deal this was
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The available cars are listed toward the bottom of http://www.dodge.com/en/refuel/
I rented a car recently from an agency inside a Dodge dealership, and the $2.99 price was posted. Now, if I get a Dodge that gets 20 MPG, and live 50 miles from work, that's 2 1/2 gallons each way, or 5 gallons a day. At 250 days/year, that's 1250 gal.
So,let's say that gas is $4/gal for the first year, and $5/gal for the next two. So, you collect 1 * (4 - 3) * 1250 + 2 * (5 - 3) * 1250 = $6250 from Chrysler. For each car. People who buy new cars don't tend to own them more than three years, anyway.
Your first year, you pay as much for gas as a 4/3 * 20 = 27 MPG car. The second and third years, as a 33 MPG car. The higher prices go, the better your effective mileage gets.
I think Mr. Bolling is right. Chrysler's decided to give up the ghost, but it wants to unload as many cars as it can in the mean time.
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WARNING: Do not take advice on how to change your boyfriend from the comics
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I do not believe there is any evidence to show that comas caused by tramau result in calmness and vigor.
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ethanol is not carbon neutral
[Read the article: One more good reason to lift the embargo on Cuba]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The only way we are going to get away from the carbon problem is to look at ways to produce energy that don't directly involve carbon. Like: solar, wind, tidal, hydro, geothermal, nuclear - probably all of the above.
@calcerous -- This is all in line with Gore's goal of changing electricity production, but none of these are chemically transportable like natural gas, oil, gassified coal or... ethanol. Until the hydrogen infrastructure's in place :) we have to get oil out of energy production by looking at other burnable liquids.