Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 34
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Julia Child's Chefiness
[Read the article: Trial by fryer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ms. Child was indeed routinely mistaken for a chef, as ChefColeman indicates above. In that cheery, modest, honest way of hers, she was quick to disclaim the honor: "From the beginning I've tried to be a teacher, a teacher of cooking classes. That's all I am."
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Battered Dem Syndrome
[Read the article: Democrats show Beltway "strength," avoid being depicted as weak]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bush has them scared of causing chaos in Iraq, another 9/11, an oil shortage, a recession, extended deployments in Iraq, deprivation among our troops. They have nightmares of being Swiftboated, of ten feet tall Monica Goodlings, of being chased by Blackwater, of global warming being a hoax, of finding Karl rove under their bed...
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Glenn is no mere serious adult
[Read the article: Peggy Noonan is a serious "grown-up"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He may be the smartest guy on the web. Another contender and fully-grown man, Dan Froomkin of WashingtonPost.com, calls Glenn "scary smart". If the Bushies were half as smart, they'd move to Paraguay now, but nooo...
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Edward's grooming shows admirable insight into citizens' concerns.
[Read the article: Peggy Noonan is a serious "grown-up"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As Oscar Wilde said, only shallow people don't judge by appearances. Republican men may fancy themselves to be naturally gorgeous. Like Wilde's Dorian Gray, some are, but only on the outside.
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Freud Seen Leaving the Building
[Read the article: A penny for your deepest thoughts]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The stunning breakthrough illuminated in this bright article is that a psychological subject's resistance was taken seriously, rather than as fodder for subjective research. Freud's Orwellian trope, defining the negative, inverted the cardinal rule of empiricism, objectivity, closing the door on science. Dare we hope psychology is becoming a science?
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Art imitates life imitating the art of Japanese animation
[Read the article: Unclear if latest YouTube craze has deep sociological meaning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To sell ads if not products, actors used to be filmed in evening gowns wearing very knowing looks. Subliminally AIDs makes such sophistication suspect. The genius of these videos' is their realization of a desire for naive reverential attention (peace be with you, master) that we satisfy by adopting loving pets.
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Not to excuse Bill's bad, but....
[Read the article: Bill Clinton: The Chris Matthews of South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm disgusted with Bill, too, but the charge that he did Obama an injustice "solely to help his wife win" seems pure projection. Look how red he was in the face. We think he's too smart to believe what he said, but the idea that South Carolina's grapes are sour, very sour, being black, is just the kind of intellectually dishonest thinking that would attend his emotional upset after Hillary's loss. Reportedly, he's since backed off. Nice Bill, goooood Bill [pat, pat, scratch behind his ears].
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Kansas is all right
[Read the article: There's nothing the matter with Kansas]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks, Kansas, for giving America Barack Obama.
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mutatis mutandis
[Read the article: I can't stop stealing!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Leaving attorneys beside the point, Gary's advice applies beautifully to all enslaving desires. He echoes Ben Franklin, who warned that wanting what we don't need can cost us what we do need. If our first thoughts are desires, our better second thoughts ask why?
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The Excluded Middle
[Read the article: John McCain is running for sissy in chief]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sooo, under the terms of Strausbaugh if you aren't sissified you're a fanatic. Strausbaugh aims to be the latter. He wants us to be scared of being sissies, which is to say he wants us to be sissies to prove his point. Neoconservativism rears its ugly head between the lines of a book that serves to weaken the discourse it claims to champion. The book does makes an indefinite point. He claims its not a slight on women, though sissie is the diminutive for sister. Bob Novak, conservative columnist has similarly complained about the feminisation of our culture, while likewise failing to appreciate how necessary and good that is. It's our best hope for a better future.
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What a waste of people's donations!
[Read the article: What the Huck?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He admits he can't do the math. He's still likely counting on his miracle. Maybe he thinks before the convention God will call McCain "home". In such unfortunate event, the GOP would be wise to nominate Romney and leave Huck waaaaay off the ticket.
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Occam's baritone
[Read the article: Does Obama's baritone give him an edge?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The significance of an overwhelming reference to a voice as a baritone will not be found in any number of associations uncovered by research, anthropological, sociological, psychological, political, or what have you. What Mr. Browning wanted was simply a dictionary to remind him of what a baritone is. No one refers to Hillary's mezzo soprano or to Bush's baritone. There are very few people whose speaking voice thrills us like singing.
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The Clinton Campaign trumpets 'taps'
[Read the article: Quarter of Clinton supporters would vote McCain over Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bye, bye, summer Democrats. And to think Obama's supporters are accused of being fools for love! Will Hillary follow her "cult" out of the party? Benedict Arnold moved to Canada where he died unsung.
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Best Tom ever...
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Political cartoons are normally not even funny just, well, wry or something, owing to their indenture to reality, but this was really, really funny.
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Our victory in Iraq must be the Iraqis'.
[Read the article: How the U.S. can still save Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Excellent to hear from a true son of Iraq and a father to its future. For delivering the scoop and honest analysis of past and ongoing troubles from an eye-witness, thanks Gary. Best of luck to the seemingly, imminently qualified Mr. Fekeiki in achieving his brave ambitions.
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Let's get one thing straight.......................................................................................
[Read the article: How the press failed on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We invaded Iraq, because we thought they didn't have WMDs, not because we thought they did. Our leaders predicted a cakewalk, securing a defenseless Iraq. Our troops had orders to secure one thing. The weapons? Nooooo, the oil fields. We didn't even secure Iraqi armories, much less look for WMDs until AFTER the looting was over. Then, a small American team came into Iraq and began "gathering information" to help in their upcoming, leisurely search for WMDs.
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Camille? Do you truly lament the loss of "helmet hair"?
[Read the article: Hillary's race against time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Unlike today's normally discreet Barbie boobs "helmet hair" was expensive and painful to achieve in pursuit of a wholly intentionally artificial look. For all the time and money it had to have cost, Liz Taylor's hairdo on the Life Cover lends zero to her beauty.
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The irony is dreadful. How could you, Miss, um, Mrs, er Ms. Goldwasser?
[Read the article: What's the matter with kids today?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't for a second imagine our kids don't know from Adolf Hitler. What slander! They tested poorly, according to Salon.com, which has the entire test on their website, on the knowledge of his official title. I bet you thought he was a totalitarian dictator of Germany, who started WWII and murdered 12 million of his own people, before killing himself in a bunker as the allies closed in, but did you he was Chancellor? Uh, oh.
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re: the irony is dreadful
[Read the article: What's the matter with kids today?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]CORRECTION: Slate.com is where the test given to teenagers is found in its entirety, not on Salon.com. I apologize for the mix-up.