Letters to the Editor
Tideswimmer
Published Letters: 383 Editor's Choice: 47
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I don't want the internet on the phone either
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But you know what would be cool? If the next iPod I have could be used to look up directions when I'm lost in a new city, or I could email someone from it to tell them I'm lost and will probably be late. I mean, I'm already carrying the iPod around; wouldn't it be cool if it could suddenly do those extra things?
My iPod already lets me carry around calendar items and notes, but if I could create new calendar items right on it, that would be cool. And sometimes I see things I want to take pictures of. If my iPod could take a picture of that thing, that would be cool. There's simply just not enough arm length self-portraits in the world yet. One million such photos per person is the minimal requirement for modern life.
Ah, hell, if my iPod is going to do all that already, it might as well be able to look at the world wide web, too. I can look at my latest batch of 100 arm-length portraits on Flickr (what would be neat is if the iPod could automatically upload them... it can? cool!). It's a win/win situation. It allows the world to celebrate the infinite variations that is me, plus I don't see how that is going to keep me from reading a book later. I mean, come on.
And if my iPod is going to do all that, well, we've come this far, might as well throw in the phone call thingie, too. I don't have a cell phone now. I think they are basically evil. Take the plunge! Dare to be out of contact, if only for a few minutes! But I can see times when it would be nice to have one: Emergency calls and stuff.
That's my biggest gripe with the iPhone and all cell phones for that matter. There don't seem to be any viable carrier options for people who can only envision making two or three calls a year.
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Garry Owen
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I almost dare not respond because you sometimes seem kind of deranged.
But what did I say that would make you wish I would commit suicide?
That's not cool.
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@ Realname
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What is this... "Al-umin-um" of which you speak? 'Tis a most quaint and curious term. Is it, perhaps, some kind of felt or straw material which may be woven and thus worn as a hat?
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Scared kid at the movie
[Read the article: "Ratatouille"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anonymous, I wasn't in the audience you were at, but I want to thank you for at least giving up after 20 minutes. I've been in screenings where parents are determined to see it through to the very end, no matter what or how much it ruins the showing for everyone else.
I think 3 years-old is too young for ANY movie these days. If for no other reason, the sheer volume blasting audiences today would be traumatizing without a single visual element added to it.
I hope you asked for your money back. Most theaters I know are glad to refund money for cases like yours, or at least give you passes for a future showing.
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Justice means nothing now
[Read the article: Snow: "Not going to close the door on a pardon"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From now on, when a convicted criminal stands before a judge, and the judge wants to lay down that last sobering speech about how it's important that the convict understand the reason they are going to prison, I hope every single one of them will just smirk in response and say. "Fuck you, judge. The reason I'm going to prison is that I didn't commit a big enough crime, and I don't have the right friends."
Really, now. What can the judge say that wouldn't be hypocritical and trite?
Bush says he didn't offer a full pardon because he wanted to respect the verdict of the jury. I wonder how they feel, now, about all the time they put in sitting, and hearing evidence, and deliberating and weighing and coming up with the verdict that they felt best fit the facts. I'm betting that they are wondering why they even bothered showing up.
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I'm pretty sure it was a joke
[Read the article: Ann Coulter: Almost a "great American"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'd have to have more context, but I'm pretty sure it was a joke that doesn't translate out of context. Sort of like, "If you touch one more of my cookies, I'm going to kill you."
Another joke that doesn't seem to translate is the one pulled on her by some clever graphic designer on her book cover. It's essentially just a picture of her with the word "Godless" in big bold letters across it. There's no other way to interpret that except to say that the graphic designer is saying that she is the one that is Godless, yet she never even seems to have looked beyond her own image, which she is no doubt narcissistically obsessed with, to see the whole message.
Sad, really, to have to go through life as her.
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Anonymous, the one who keeps posting over and over
[Read the article: Bush and Cheney walk, too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're boring.
Who gives a fuck about what Clinton did blah blah blah. See? I can't even finish the sentence, it's so boring.
Get off your loop. Obviously, you think the country is better for what Bush did. It is an act that makes you proud to be an American. You don't think, as most postings have said, that it is incredibly self-serving that the man who stands to benefit most by Libby's actions — and he was found guilty; even Bush admits that — is also the man who gives Libby a get out of jail free card?
That doesn't bother you? Really. That's just fine and dandy with you? A convicted man goes free; you're happy about that? If Clinton had done it, would it be fine with you? Would you care to explain why you are so pleased with Bush's actions right now rather than handing out another childish "Clinton did blah blah blah?"
That's all. That's it. Explain why you think this is a proud day for America, please.