Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 25 Editor's Choice: 2
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A few points
[Read the article: The triumph and tragedy of Rosa Parks]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A few points about the mostly fine story about Rosa Parks. Ms Parks was probably not aware of the court case concerning OutKast and Barbershop. Her health was poor for a very long time and her affairs were being handled by jackals (to the sorrow of Metro Detroiters who had to watch the poor woman's name being dragged through court aftr court). A quick trip through the archives of Detroit papers will prove my point.
Mr. Hutchinson also forgot to mention that Ms Parks publically forgave the man who robbed her, a move completely consistent with her wonderful life.
We have lost more than an icon with the passing of Rosa Parks. We have lost a real person, a kind, smart and forgiving person who did as much to secure freedom for every single American as any founding father in the history books.
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Molly vs Hillary
[Read the article: Molly Ivins on how lame Hillary Clinton is]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the worst possible thing would be Hillary Clinton running for president. She cannot win, the middle cannot win. Thanks to Molly Ivins for saying it out loud. We cannot allow the DLC to lose another election.
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McCain for NOTHING
[Read the article: McCain in 2008?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Things aren't bad enough in this country, now we have to discuss the weak-ass John McCain for president? We want more war? We want the slide to corporate control of our country to continue? A man who, after being slammed and slandered, after having his war record and personal courage questioned by the chicken hawk war evader/coke addict chimp-in-chief, sits silent while the same treatment is meted out to John Kerry? John McCain has no political integrity. If he's looking good right now, it's only because Bush looks so bad. John McCain is republican business as usual. Get. Them. Out. Of The. White. House. For. Good.
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Did we watch the same show?
[Read the article: Oscar castrates himself]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Normally I fall on Cintra Wilson's articles with glee, but I think she missed this one by a mile.
Jon Stewart, though dwarfed by that dreadful huge theater, was fine, and the film clips and montages were interesting and very funny.
Playing music through the speeches was unforgiveably rude. The folks at home might make fun, but the Oscars are also about industry achievement and the winners deserved a couple of minutes without bad lounge music playing through it.
There should have been more bad taste, but there was some and how did Cintra miss it?
I was hoping to find out why all the women were painted gold, what the heck was perched on Charlize Theron's shoulder, what the FUCK happened to Dolly Parton's face. I wondered what was running through Matt Dillon's mind all night, as he never changed expression one time. Does Jack Nicholson really have one single, tired schtick? There should be a drinking game where you do a shot when that eyebrow of his pops up. Paul Haggis's wife popped a tit, did Cintra go for a pee at that crucial bad taste moment?
Oh well, most of the viewers had fun (my dinner was delicious!). There's always next year, Cintra.
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We were all terrible
[Read the article: My son, the stranger]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was the world's worst teenager; mean, stupid, condescending, headstrong. I made my mother so angry one time, she stood up in a crowded movie theater and slapped me around my ears about ten times. I DESERVED IT. Not that many years later, I would think about my rotten-ness and call her on the phone and apologize. I'd tell her what I was thinking about and tell her I was sorry. And she'd laugh like hell.
Damn I miss her. You're doing great. He'll be fine.
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One more thing
[Read the article: My son, the stranger]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A friend of mine was telling me about his two dreadful sons. He asked me, Why did God make teenagers so mean? Answer: so it doesn't break your heart when they move out.
Hang in there Anne. Some of these comments are just plain nuts.
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Not this same article again!
[Read the article: Was the 2004 election stolen? No.]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Farhood Manjoo thinks the 2004 election was fairly won by George Bush. We know this, because we've read it before. Whatever. Salon will assign this story to him again, when the next round of evidence comes up. They will assign the peace march story to Michele Goldberg. This is what they do. Assign the same reporters to the same story over and over. I won't cancel my subscription to Salon because of this, it's throwing out the baby with the bathwater. I still read it daily and like it quite a lot. But I won't read Mr. Manjoo's stories anymore than I read Michelle Goldbergs. I get it! Not stolen! Hippielike and ineffective! Okay!
For the record, my husband worked the polls in Ohio during the 2004 election. He wants you to know that in Ohio, douchebaggery won the day. Bush only won, if at all, because of the full time job done by Republican party keeping people from voting. Election stolen. End of story.
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Left or Right Wing of the Democratic Party?
[Read the article: Which way to the White House?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As long as Mark Warner categorically rejects universal health care (as he did in the New York Times profile of him) he's unelectable in my house.
The Democrats won the last two presidential elections, but didn't have the stones to fight for it. We can't let the middle blow another one. This planet can't afford Mark Warner (and god help us all, Hillary Clinton). I hardly dare to dream that we could actually bring a Russ Finegold to the White House but boy, oh boy...
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Nice Cameo
[Read the article: The city of lost children]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]by Steve Earle.
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Go
[Read the article: Should we go home for Christmas -- even if we can't afford it?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Because as Katrina survivors should know better than anybody, everything you love could be gone in the blink of an eye.
Because I'm projecting myself on this story and I would swim through a river of shit to see some of my relatives (I miss you Mom) again.