Letters to the Editor
robotempire
Published Letters: 49 Editor's Choice: 9
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Please.
[Read the article: The iPhone: A quick first look]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh, Zunefanboi, NObody was camping out and line-sitting for one of those things. The Costco stores around here finally pulled the plug after months of pathetic sales. I'm sure it does what you want it to do, but it's a Zuney-come-lately with no compelling features in a crowded market.
You missed the point entirely.
The point wasn't that the iPhone is a flop like the Zune is.
The point is that the iPhone has failed to live up to expectations, in no small part to the level of mania that people had regarding this piece of kit. Exactly like the Zune. And the corollary to that is where is all the outrage about the "lack of features"? *ALL* of the Zune complaints basically boiled down to: "It does not live up to the hype, and it did not fulfill its potential."
Now that critics are saying the same thing about the iPhone, where are the fanbois to dissemble that bit of fluff?
And honestly, how can anyone with a clear conscience give money to AT&T?
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Sock puppets
[Read the article: The iPhone: A quick first look]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Apple's iPhone stands a good chance to reverse that trend. I played with one today at an Apple Store, and I was very impressed. It feels much more solid than most other smartphones, it's much more comfortable to use, the screen is flat-out incredible, the touch keyboard was easy to use, the browser was zippy and text was easy to read. The sound quality seemed fine, though it was hard to tell in such a crowded, noisy store.
So, are you a paid sock puppet or doing this on your breaks, sunspot?
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Shite story
[Read the article: Why Cory Booker is mad as hell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The lede is kind of a decent feature-y opening but has nothing to do with the story. Also, the headline doesn't even begin to accurately reflect the content of the piece. "Cory Booker is angry as hell" but no interview with him? Who says he's mad as hell? Did he? I sure wouldn't know since the "journalist" who wrote this couldn't be bothered to include a quote.
This is very, very reminiscent of some overachieving journalism undergrad spewing out some appeal-to-emotion statistical finger-f*cking to get an A on their term paper.
Salon is lucky they have Cary Tennis, otherwise I wouldn't pay two cents for a subscription.
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Equilibrium
[Read the article: "The World Without Us"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not really concerned about human overpopulation, and I certainly don't think any artificial mechanisms are needed to balance it out. Life is a fabulous self-balancing mechanism. War, hunger or disease will wipe out significant portions of earth's human population, starting initially in the most densely-populated regions and spreading outward.
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Theory vs. Reality: Adultery isn't a game
[Read the article: Lately I've been kissing women I'm not married to]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Speaking as someone who has recently been told about his adulterous spouse, I have to shake my head at all the letter writers saying that cheating on your spouse is no big deal.
It is a big deal. It's a Very Big Deal, as a matter of fact. Most people enter a marriage with an understanding of exclusivity, or fidelity. Faithfulness. They marry someone because they "could never imagine him/her cheating on me!" Then bam, one day it happens and your world is turned upside the fuck down. The depths of emotional pain and suffering is really unimaginable unless you've been there.
For awhile, before this happened, my opinion was, "Hell, I only live once. I don't want to be on my death bed 60, 70 years from now wishing I'd had sex with Person Y." Now I see how ridiculous that is. Cheating is easy. Finding someone to rub your genitals against or into is the easy part. The REAL challenge, the thing to really be proud of is spending your entire life being a faithful, honest, loving spouse. The key obviously is communication. If you are thinking about walking around, or if your spouse does, then you're not communicating some need. Some desire. Some passion. Some dark thought. Something isn't getting communicated.
You can talk all the shit you want all day long about how you have a "happy marriage" but still find yourself in a liplock with other people. You don't have a happy marriage. One of you isn't on board. Now, it's necessarily the cheater. It may be that the other spouse is willfully not fulfulling needs. But one of you isn't on board with the marriage. Either fix it or end it, but it isn't worth the emotional torment of revealing/discovering an affair. The pain is almost physical, it's like being flayed alive. Being cuckolded isn't something that just makes you "sit up and take notice" and "better try to explore those emotions." No, it rips the soul out of your body, at least for awhile.
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David Lodge?
[Read the article: Lately I've been kissing women I'm not married to]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here are David Lodge's 3 rules for adultery:
1. Don't do it with an underling
2. Maintain absolute discretion
3. Never humiliate your partner.
Man, so true. My wife "inadvertently" humiliated me, shamed me, ruined my self-esteem, stole my honor by a particular subset of lies. It has made it exponentially more difficult to overcome.
We're reconciling. I've chosen to genuinely believe that it was a combination of both hurtful decisions and being off meds/drunk. It's kind of a long story, heh.
The point is, good Lord, don't cheat on your spouse. You will be inflicting an unknowable amount of pain.