Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 72 Editor's Choice: 1
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Note to bebop-o
[Read the article: The 2008 election, explained by Yogi Berra]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dear sir or madam as the case may be:
As incomprehensible as Yogi Berra has been on many occasions, I regret to have to report that you are even more so, only without his endearing humor. On an incomprehensibility scale of 1 to 10, you are at least a 35. But that's not why I'm writing. I'm writing to correct your grammar.
You said, "The wheel we/me is/are talking about is not mechanical." What you should have said was, "The wheel we/I are/am talking about is not mechanical." Correcting this will not serve to make you any more comprehensible, but I'm just saying. No one says "we is" or "me are" -- not in letters to Salon, anyway.
A word to the wise....
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I wanted to cry "Sacrilege!"...
[Read the article: The chosen president]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...but as usual you make too much sense. And all the really angry people stopped reading you last month, if we are to believe them. The Four Points of Bushiness you delineated may also be referred to, on bad days, as Arrogant S.O.B.-ism.
Keep on keeping on....
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note to sesanders and others who think like her/him
[Read the article: When good actors do bad things]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I regret to report that your Logical Thinking apparatus is flawed. If it is true, as you say, that "we all have a dark side and say things we regret" (and it is true), then how can it also be "inconceivable" that Mr. Baldwin would call his daughter a pig or "unbelievable" that a grown man would resort to such immature language? It simply does not follow as the night the day; those actions on his part are actually evidence of having a dark side and saying things we regret, n'est-ce pas? "Unacceptable" or "beyond the pale" might have been a more accurate reaction on your part, but "inconceivable" and "unbelievable"??? Ridiculous, -a, -um. In the future, please review your work more closely before clicking the "Publish my letter" box.
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We are all interconnected...
[Read the article: At her majesty's pleasure]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]by our common humanity, are we not? John Donne might have put it this way if he were a Salon LW, "Any man's rape diminishes me, because I am involved with mankind." But so many of the commenters here would rather point fingers and say, "Peter Furth deserved what he got." The Arrogance Highway runs in both directions. I was taught, "There, but for the grace of God, go I." A little compassion for what the man endured doesn't mean you condone the behavior that got him there. (And please don't tell me about what his fellow passengers were "forced" to endure.)
On another topic, I have sometimes wished the near-constant tunes would stop playing in my head, but upon reading that one sign of the end of Mr. Furth's ordeal was the resumption of tunes playing in his head, I see it all in a new light and am actually thankful for hearing tunes. And the "Alleluia" from Mozart's "Exultate, Jubilate!" For the past two weeks, I had been unable to stop thinking of the insipid theme song from the old television program "Maude," which began suddenly, inexplicably, complete with references to Lady Godiva, Joan of Arc, Isadora Duncan, and Betsy Ross. Now I learn out that Peter Furth's last book was about Isadora Duncan. Don't tell me we aren't interconnected.
All right, nurse, I'm ready to go back to my room now.
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I wasn't born in "The South"...
[Read the article: The spring blues]
[Read more letters about this article: Here](would you believe Pawtucket, Rhode Island? -- I wanted to be near my mother and she happened to be there at the time), but we moved south as soon as I could convince them (that's a little joke, but I was six when we moved to Fort Worth, Texas, and I can hear some of you saying, "That's not the SOUTH, that's the SOUTHWEST, well, we seceded, if that's any qualification), and I met my North Carolina wife in Florida while I was in the Air Force, and I have lived in north Georgia (which, as all north Georgians know, beats the socks off south Georgia -- sorry, Columbus -- because, among other things, we have mountains, OK, hills) for over thirty years -- and even though our first child was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and our other two children were born in Poughkeepsie, New York (don't ask) and my mother was from Pennsylvania and my father was from Wisconsin and Iowa -- and even though I'm a great fan of Garrison Keillor, I have to say the southerners on this thread pretty much have it right. I am more than happy for GK and his defenders to remain Yankees (people from the North who come to the South for a visit). God help us if they ever become Damn Yankees (people from the North who come to the South and stay) -- oh, wait a minute, I'm describing myself, even if I do say "ma'am" and "sir" and "yawl."
Spring came to an abrupt halt here on April 15th when a hard frost destroyed all the azalea blooms; the phlox and forsythia were late this year; the dogwood season was spectacular but short this year; our particular camellias bloom in October, but hey, it's still better than having to talk about ludefisk and ice-fishing.
I think what I'm trying to say is, I'm conflicted about this article.
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well, actually, M. Bill, Hillary does NOT equal France...
[Read the article: "Hillary equals France"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...Mais non! Hillary equals Argentina! I mean, c'mon, with her driving ambition and utter ruthlessness and obvious sense of entitlement, doesn't she remind you much more of Eva Peron than, say, Edith Piaf or Brigitte Bardot or Marie Antoinette? Well, OK, maybe Marie Antoinette. Of course, Hillary would easily win a political beauty contest against those other nation-leading ladies, Margaret Thatcher and Golda Meir, but she would never be voted Miss Congeniality. Point, set, and match: she's certainly no Simone Signoret.
And by the by, dear writer of a previous comment, "sweet little Austria" gave the world Adolf Hitler, n'est-ce pas?
And to another commenter, I believe it was George Washington, not the V.F.W., who first warned Americans against entangling foreign alliances.
Too-shay, mare-see bo-koo, and ah rivwah for now...
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The question everyone is longing to ask...
[Read the article: Not everyone was straight at the Kennedy Roundtable]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Boxers or Briefs?