Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 88 Editor's Choice: 1
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Didn't even need to read the article to know ...
[Read the article: Michelle Obama's sacrifice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that this is so typical of feminism: women tearing each other to shreds for doing something that does not conform to their particular philosophies of what a feminist ... come to think of it, don't you think the phrase should be "manist?" ... or another woman should do.
People make choices - Debra has no right to judge anyone else. No one. No man. No woman. No one gets to have it all. And frankly, ladies, feminists, manists, why do you WANT what we have anyway? It's not so great ... and mostly just in the material plane.
Women hold the keys to the kingdom, are tied to the cycle of life and the energies of the earth and heavens in ways men can only imagine and can only connect to through women (not talking about sex, specifically, btw) ... and the feminists, the manists want to throw it all away for a paycheck and a title.
Not worth the time.
Feminist fury indeed.
Time to get rid of broadsheet once and for all.
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the Stones won?
[Read the article: Why is "Sgt. Pepper" so overhyped?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gina Arnold says:
And if you think of the Beatles/Rolling Stones debate, the Stones won that in every possible way -- in terms of long life and record sales and influence
The reason being, Gina, that to do Beatles-style arrangements properly (Polyphonic Spree does not) takes a tremendous amount of work and talent, not to mention phenomenal songwriting at the foundation of the music. Much easier to rehash the Stones/Velvet Underground/Ramones ...
Sgt. Pepper's was one the Beatles' weaker albums, but, as others have mentioned, it must be viewed in the context of the times. Three-and-a-half years after the assassination of JFK ... turmoil at home in the US and war in Vietnam, Sgt. Pepper's heralded the ascendancy of our generation and our hope for the future and the promise of our democracy. A silly dream? Yes. It only took a few more assassinations (RFK & MLK in particular), the ongoing war, drugs, and a multi-decade process in which the media was consolidated and turned into the multi-nationals' house organ to derail the dream.
Even John Lennon dismissed Sgt. Peppers with the remark,"What do you remember? A Day In The Life ..." something to that effect.
The Stones lost the multi-dimensional aspect (they shared with the Beatles) to be hard and funny simultaneously - they had when Brian Jones was still in the band. Still fantastic, but not the same.
I listened to I Am The Walrus yesterday ... absolutely unbelievable to this day.
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A simple video for a non-song
[Read the article: Music Video: "Operation," Charlotte Gainsbourg]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Another piece of over-compressed oatmeal-shit cardboard catering to dj/club-culture.
Awful.
One of these days, people are going to be fed up with ear-fatigue and beat-based songs and start demanding melodies and true hooks again.
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i don't think straight men even notice other men's eyes
[Read the article: Do you have to be gay to tell another guy his eyes are pretty?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Except for quick scan to find out if the guy is any kind of threat or is lying ...
I had a drinking buddy - also godfather to my second son - for years and one time we were talking about some guy and he mentioned the color of the guy's eyes and it hit me that I had never noticed the color of any man's eyes and I began to suspect that my good friend was gay ... which was confirmed by my asking him some weeks later ... in one of those "in vino veritas" conversations ...
anyway ... the writer's coworker sounds like a straight cock-teaser of gay men - they love the attention and the power (same as women cock-teases) - and is playing with the writer.
stay away!!
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In my father's house are many mansions
[Read the article: We are meant to be here]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've always believed that phrase of Christ's is a reference to the multiverse.
Great interview. I hope our resident believers in the no-God religion (atheism) learned something from it.
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unfortunately there was lots of meth in berkeley/haight in the late '60's
[Read the article: Al's big day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I remember when speed - we called it crystal - came to town. It was near the end of the Summer of Love. All of a sudden speed freaks on Telegraph Ave., in the psych ward at Herrick Hosp. (I used to visit a friend there), and all over the haight.
It was not pretty. I knew 16 year old needle-freaks at berkeley high in the fall of '67, where i was a student.
The SF hippie magazine, the Oracle, had a big article against speed in the fall, opening with a quote from a Donovan's song "House of Jansch" on his album Mellow Yellow ... "I couldn't cry I could not laugh/Incident about a silken scarf" ... referring I guess to tying off with a scarf.
So anyone who doesn't think there wasn't speed in the sixties was not there, or was not where the action was.
Very sad, of course. Drugs, assassinations, and later, materialism, killed the dream of the sixties.
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can we feel the baby's heartbeat and the baby kicking inside as well?
[Read the article: The Empathy Belly]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Where did you women get so far off course ... this stupid notion that pregnancy is a curse and we men have to "experience" your ... discomfort ... inconvenienced super-woman lives?
You are tied directly into the energies of our very existence, the cycles of the earth and the tides and the heavens, yes, you women, and you absolutely trivialize it with this nonsense.
What for?
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winners and losers? farhad manjoo: LOSER
[Read the article: The Potter leak: Winners and losers (no spoilers)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Falling for a fake. Anything to seem on the cutting edge and in the know on the big bad ditigal underground.
My serious programmer friends knew he was a ignoramus wannabe ten years ago.
La plus ca change, la plus c'est la meme chose.
I read manjoo, but usually just for a laugh.
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Well, that is what Steve gets for making a deal with AT&T
[Read the article: An iPhone surprise: Opening-day sales were slow]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anybody remember when the phone company first offered DSL? It was a service nightmare.
I'm sorry Apple took a hit due to AT&T's vast incompetence, but maybe it will help bring about the unlocking of the iPhone sooner.
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wow
[Read the article: Microsoft on Mac gains: Apple's not even close]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]who gives a rats ass?
Microsoft sucks, has always sucked, will always suck.
Where's my Zune?
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i have been attacked by Anonymous
[Read the article: A little bit more about "anonymous"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And then it is fun to say that i will not respond to (or even consider) remarks made by someone without the courage to put a name to his or her postings.
Postings by Anonymous are without merit.
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the 20th century's greatest artist?
[Read the article: Remembering Bergman]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]right.
right up there with james joyce and captain beefheart.
i love the conceit of o'hehir's pronouncement, in any case.