Letters to the Editor
msgkings
Published Letters: 26 Editor's Choice: 1
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Good young actors
[Read the article: "Hollywoodland"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm always up for seeing performances by Jake Gyllenhall, Hilary Swank, Ewan MacGregor, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, and there's a few others who can turn in something very interesting (Colin Farrell, Jim Carrey, Reese Witherspoon) every now and then.
And I agree Affleck isn't much of an actor but I've always hoped he'd get some chops because he seems like a likeable guy in 'real life', whatever that means to regular people trying to figure out what a celeb is like. Maybe this movie is the start....
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Replies to knuckleheads
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To DZ:
You wrote:
Anyone who sends a death threat based on anything to do with any sporting event should be hung in public. Sick, sick, sick
Um, I guess we string you up first for proposing death (a death threat) in an online thread relating to a sporting event. Nice. Death threats are bad. Including yours.
To Elmore:
Someone who wrote the sentence example you gave would simply put a comma after 'Theresa' if those two were in fact their parents. No comma there makes it clear that the pope and M.T. are not the writer's parents.
To OK football fans:
HAHAHAHAHA. Your turn to get screwed. Happens in sports to everyone's team at one point or another. Keep it in perspective.
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It's just aging, gents
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To King, and the others who have been agreeing with him about losing their appetite for sports arguments:
It's just getting older, priorities change, no big deal...kids really accelerate the process, or at least they did for me. Getting your kid to smile is SO much more important than who gets in the HOF, and you just realize the arguments were to fill up time before being a grownup did.
I even found my passion for my teams reduced. I was a new dad when my White Sox won the WS in 2005, after (obviously) not winning for my entire life (or my dad's, or grandad's, also fans). I was happy and all, but pretty detached. My wife couldn't believe how calm I was about the victory, and I was a little suprised too. I was so in love with my kid (and her) that my sports team love had faded a bit.
Arguing about sports fades even more....
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To Paul in KY
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And other members of the anti-steroid jihad: how can you be sure those guys were the only ones using? Wasn't the whole sport riddled with them? And didn't they dramatically outperform their peers in that era? And didn't Bonds have HOF numbers before beginning to juice (like almost everyone else)in 1998? You can't know all that went on. Put the juicing allegations on the plaque but by all means, those guys (not Palmeiro, his stats were all juice and longevity) get in.
Or don't. My previous post spells out that I'm not that passionate about it either way.
And speaking of the Hall of FAME....I think Pete Rose is far more famous (talked about, gossiped about, argued about, covered) by NOT being in the HOF. Bonds probably will be too if he doesn't get in.
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I have a different slant on this
[Read the article: Herbivore vs. carnivore]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm a vegetarian, but it's not because I love animals. It's because I f*cking hate plants!
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The obvious flaw in logic
[Read the article: Black gas-price Monday?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Um, if evil oil companies have so much control, why did they let oil prices drop to $11 a barrel in 1998? With gasoline so cheap throughout the 90s? They could have kept prices at $60 a barrel all that time, right?
It's not a conspiracy, it's not robber oil barrons. Welcome to Econ 101.
ALl the $ they are making (and they means owners like Grandma with her 1000 shares of Exxon stock too y'know)...anyone in favor of government help when they were getting killed in 1998? So why the vitriol now.
High prices = reduce consumption, and also makes 'crazy' ideas (solar, wind, ethanol) work. Hurrah.
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Hey Tilde guy ~~~~
[Read the article: Fred Thompson is just like you]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm kind of center left and all, and I am asking without rancor where 'we' should move since the US is dying? China? France?
The US is just like democracy, the worst system except for all the others.
Also, Britain no longer rules the world but it has by no means become a 'poor country'. In fact it's pretty jumping these days, London has pretty much replaced NYC as the world's financial capital and so on.
Seriously, where to? Only Canada holds any appeal for me and it's too dang cold!
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Bitter much TRT?
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]B(ureau) of L(and) M(anagement)
I've never been to the Super Bowl or the Moon or a Beatles concert but I can enjoy reading about all of those things and many more.
Enjoy your comics.
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@ Rahmat
[Read the article: Don't cry for Saudi Arabia]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The U.S. would feel pretty good with total world peace. Setting aside the moral joy at this impossible occurrence, peace is WAY better for business than war. We'd make up for the small loss of arms sales (and really, there'd still be buyers galore) with a lot more trade in everything else.
Oh, and every time someone brings up the 'oil companies control the oil prices' canard I chuckle a little: if they can 'control' the price and run it up to make so much money, what were they doing from 1986-2001? They coulda made a lot more $ 'controlling' things to keep the price from plummeting from almost $80 a barrel in 1981 dollars.
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Enough with the rust theory
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Whatever your beliefs about the effect of the layoff, we really do have to consider it 'the hand Colorado was dealt'. The Rox swept the D-Backs. The Sox went to 7 with Cleveland, finishing on Sunday. The EARLIEST Game 1 could have been played was Tuesday instead of Wednesday. So a 7 day layoff instead of 8. Nothing to be done about it.
So enough already droogoy. Maybe the Rockies should have tanked a game or two to keep their timing.