Letters to the Editor
Uberbah
Published Letters: 54
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oh, DO get over yourself
[Read the article: Kos gets a pass this week]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You want to see REAL sexism Joan? How about that Greek cruise liner that went down, and hundreds of men were told they'd have to wait while women and children boarded first? What Imus said was peanuts to what Ann Richards of Texas said a few years back: she joked that the price of gas was so high that women were having to borrow gas money to run over their husbands. It was a reference to Clara Harris, a woman who brutally murdered her husband by running him over multiple times with her Mercedes - with the man's daughter in the front seat. Imagine the response if a male politician made a similar joke about Laci Peterson. Your harping on Kos as a misogynist is as pathetic as Bill O'Reilly insisting that Christians are oppressed when they walk into a Target in December and see a sign that says "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas".
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Yawn
[Read the article: To Pixar: We love it. But next time, could you add a girl?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Pixar's characters are consistently fun, engaging, lovable ... and male.
Liar. I haven't seen Monsters Inc., and don't really remember Toy Story, but all the other movies have strong female characters. I also don't see you complaining that you don't see more guys starring in chick flicks or in movies on the Lifetime channel. Feminisms selective equality rears its ugly head once again.
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tell the boys, eh?
[Read the article: Female genital mutilation a growing problem in Britain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How about having a care for the baby boys put through Male Genital Mutilation, aka circumcision. And spare me the red herrings of AIDS prevention and hygiene. That's what condoms, monogamy, STD testing and soap & water are for. If the people who perform FGM made similarly weak excuses, they would be met with anger and contempt.
Stop caring about women's rights and start caring about human rights.
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don't steal Dvorak's shtick
[Read the article: Amazon's MP3 store: Better than iTunes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]by trolling for hits. It is nice that there's a real competitor to the iTMS, and that it currently offers unencumbered tracks for less. But you're engaging in hyperbole to suggest that "Amazon runs circles around iTunes" when you yourself say that iTunes has many more songs and Jobs wants to move away from DRM. Especially when those lower prices and DRM free songs on Amazon are likely moves by the record labels to put pressure on Apple - and why are they putting pressure on Apple? Because they want to raise prices, not lower them.
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Feminist full of crap, news at 11
[Read the article: The 9/11 backlash against women]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anyone who questioned the Administration and it's "GWOT" was demonized, not just women. Women are healthier, living longer, making more money, getting more education, holding greater positions of power, and the top presidential candidate in the country is a woman. Faludi is grasping at straws, red herrings and bad anecdotes in an attempt to hold on to victimhood. Grow up and get some hobbies, lady.
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Rose rambled right on into BS
[Read the article: The 9/11 backlash against women]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"In order for wars to exist and thrive, women have to go to the wayside...In the United States, women threaten the longevity of wars."
So Rose, just who held a gun to the heads of Hillary Clinton, Diane Feinstein, Mary Landrieu, Olympia Snowe, and Susan Collins to vote for the AUMF in the Senate? How about the Democrats in the House? The female reports and pundits who backed this war? But then hard core feminists never let facts get in the way of some gratuitous male bashing.
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nevermind the Christian Right
[Read the article: Giuliani's Christian-right foes to meet again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why is the NRA missing in action? Given Giuliani's support for gun control, he should be completely unacceptable to the second most powerful lobby in the U.S. Or is this another case of IOKIYAR hypocrisy in action, like when they supported George Bush in 2004 despite his support for existing gun control laws and promise to resign the assault weapons ban?
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drinking the hatorade on PETA
[Read the article: Earth to PETA]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Does anyone else see the irony in the author spending the first few paragraphs ridiculing PETA for complaining about the affect livestock has on global warming, and then spending the rest of the article talking about how bad livestock is for global warming?
Another point I'd like to touch on is fanaticism. There are a lot of people in this country that have a fanatical hatred for PETA, calling them extremists that don't care about people, etc. However, the number of extremists members of PETA is dwarfed by the number of people who passionately hate them. It's like wingnuts like Sean Hannity complaining that the far left is destroying the U.S., when to find an actual far leftist you need to go to North Korea.
And saying that human overpopulation is the problem is as disingenuous as the NRA's "guns don't kill people, people kill people." Yeah, but the gun has just a *little* to do with it. Our high energy consumption has just a *little* to do with global warming, not just the 6+ billion people on this planet. If we all drove a Prius, carpooled, used the bus, ate more (free range) poultry and less stake, the planet would be a lot better off.
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brightbaloney65
[Read the article: Cry "fire" and let loose the dogs of climate change!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The whole solar system is heating up due to sun activity.
Um, no. That is a right wing talking point. Funny how hundreds of thousands of years of ice core samples on Earth are worthless, but a few years on partial data from surface pictures on Mars is proof that the Sun is what's causing global warming. Riiiiiight.
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overpopulation is a red herring,
[Read the article: When the rivers run dry]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the real problem is our poor use of land and resources. Phobia of regulation, shortsightedness, and as another person pointed out, NIMBY attitudes, is what has landed Georgia in trouble. Hand waving about "overpopulation" is just a lame excuse for sprawl and bad habits.
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time to impeach some judges...
[Read the article: The agonizing truth about CIA renditions]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...unless they can point out the part of the Constitution where an exception to the Bill of Rights is made for "national security."
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conception begins at life
[Read the article: The Ron Paul phenomenon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is just as valid as saying life begins only after birth - so aborting a baby two minutes before it is born is a-ok. these views are equally valid...and equally asinine. there is this thing called "middle ground."