Letters to the Editor
ScottyRVA
Published Letters: 44 Editor's Choice: 11
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A pity indeed
[Read the article: Beyond the Multiplex: Cannes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ms. Schwarz
“I really wanted to vote for Gore. Never at any time was I actually for Nader. The problem with Gore, though, is that he is willing to lower the bar on honesty about science for the sake of politics. He's no more honest than Bush.”
So that’s it? Gore’s alleged disingenuousness regarding the benefits of pot smoking makes him one in the same with G.W. Bush? Gee, you must feel a great sense of vindication these days, I mean bad as thing are, imagine what horrors a Gore presidency might have brought us, what with all that lying about the curative uses of grass. The mind reels.
P.S.
I’m all for sex in cinema, by all means, but I’m just wondering… doesn’t the whole “acting” thing preclude the need for actual sex in a work that is meant to be essentially fictive. Not that there’s anything wrong with it, I suppose if it moves the plot along or is important to a character’s development… what’s the harm? But still…
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What a joy
[Read the article: Jaan Pehechaan Ho]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What a joy. This only intensifies my desire to visit the New York offices of Salon.con. Are there certain days when this happens, or is it more of a spontaneous thing? Do you guys reproduce other famous dance sequences; I’m thinking Tim Grieve and Peter Daou dancing one of the fight scenes from West Side Story… “Boys, boys, crazy boys!” Or maybe Joe Conason and Heather Havrilesky working through the Travolta, Thurman number from Pulp Fiction? This new slant on things really enhances my Salon experience, thanks a lot.
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Tragedy
[Read the article: Hadji Girl]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Young soldiers in hard places, under dreadful circumstances may perhaps be excused for poor choices in song writing. One can only wonder what our fathers and grandfathers might have been singing in camp during all the now sanitized wars we’ve come to love. I can live with the stupid cruelty of this Marine’s song, he’s no doubt seen things I haven’t, and while this whole thing makes me sad at so many levels, my greatest sorrow and deepest anger is reserved for the swine that put this young man into a place where three years along in this awful war. everyone in the country he’s here to save is still his enemy, and joke-songs about slaughtering families seem worthy of video taping.
P.S. Someday this young man (God willing) is going to come home; it will be rough justice indeed if he brings all he’s so recently learned overseas about love to the marriage bed of the daughter of someone who still thinks this war was a good idea. And they said irony was dead.
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You've been served?
[Read the article: Jaan Pehechaan Ho]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can’t tell you how pleased I am at this glimpse into the inner workings of Salon. I can certainly understand that a number like the one depicted would be difficult to just pull out of the proverbial hat on say casual Friday, but knowing that this happens at all really brings what I read on the web site into clearer focus, and I’d certainly like more of the same. For instance the recent argument over the 2004 Ohio election results. I’m contraverted as to whether the weight of evidence of GOP fraud and malfeasance really adds up to an outright theft of the election, but if I could see a video of R. F. K. Jr. and Farhad Manjoo dancing through their debate a la “You’ve Been Served” until one of them just colapsed from well… “being served”, that would make things so much clearer. Keep up the good work.