Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 43 Editor's Choice: 1
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Fair Marriage and TSA
[Read the article: Little-town blues, melting away]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]@dogu44 It sounds like you are against marriage as a civic institution. Why leave it to equal rights activists to oppose?
@LeeHamm There's no excuse for how rude Boston is. You're only responsible for at most a little bit of it, though. However, the reason we don't shout back at the TSA is that they'll arrest us, handcuff us to a chair in an unsupervised room, and come back to find us dead.
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Glenn Don't Read This
[Read the article: Things I learned today about democracy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't know if anyone else has made this point, because the 302 existing comments have not been read by me. Now, normally if I'm going to post, I at least browse the comments to see if my point's been made. I'm not super original, so it usually has been.
But, I wanted to make the point that the comments generally aren't worth reading. Aren't there editors for this? I think as a nation, we're pretty agog at the "Don't criticize Obama for approving FISA, failing to stop the I-banker handouts and what have you because we don't want John McCain to win the presidency." Republicans turned the last two presidential elections into a referendum on the Democratic Candidate, so we ended up nearly electing a completely unqualified candidate in 2000, and an incumbent who'd underscored the importance of electing qualified candidates in 2004. Democrats -- especially the chattering class -- are a little nervous about that happening again. I get that. But, yes, drop Joe Lieberman, and try to get progressives in the Democratic Party by all means. I think you have a series of valid points, and you're letting the reader comments get to you.
Reading reader comments isn't a great source of information, or even a particularly accurate way to know what your readers are thinking in consensus. Who writes them?
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From Carol Lay's FAQ
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.waylay.com/FAQ/FAQ.html
"I'm working on a book for Villard, a division of Random House. It's comics and information in four colors, 185 pages. I'm still shy about talking about it -- gotta meet those deadlines first (I DO believe in jinxes) -- but it will be on the shelves in January 2009.
"Also, I'm currently taking time off from the weekly strip, although I am sending reprints to various outlets while I work on the book. Subsequently, i won't be posting strips here for a while."
I don't know why that's acceptable to Salon.com, or why they think it would be acceptable to us. I don't pay my annual subscription fee for the media commentary.
While Kansas O'Flaherty was s disaster, we should encourage the Salon.com editors to try again. C'mon! Get right back up on that horse! You can choose a good coming to replace WayLay!
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You're forgetting something
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]@rott635 I think they'd get, you know, money. Money that Carol Lay is currently accepting for sending old strips over. Cartoonists may not be primarily motivated by money, well, except for Scott Adams, but they still need it.
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I agree with the first commentor
[Read the article: Bateman: I know what a Zamboni is!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not faulting you for trying it, Scott -- and, hey, you know, I love you, I came to the PIT to see your stuff live -- but this totally doesn't work. Are you not getting enough source material?
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If the whole story had gone at the pace of the last four panels...
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... she would have had to come up with more filler.
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Experience looking at official documents would help
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]@something stinks
Some typographer must have given you this argument. But, it's specious. I would suggest you not repeat it without reviewing other birth certificates from the early 60s in Oahu.
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Lay on the Way out?
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]@Gene Touchet
Are you saying WayLay is being deservedly dropped by Salon, which I would welcome, or that Carol Lay has some painful chronic disease, which I wouldn't? I don't want to get too happy before I make sure.
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I'm bowled over
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]@Allie
Me, too. I think this is actually insanity, I have a vague notion that psychologists have some word to describe the suspicion that everything around you has been replaced with an exact replica. But, as you say, it happens to me all the time.
Every WayLay I've liked has turned out to be a decade old. I'm hopeful, though. It feels new. I'm going to check.
Eh, she's apparently still on vacation.
http://waylay.com/FAQ/FAQ.html