Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 72 Editor's Choice: 6
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okay now that's funny
[Read the article: What's that enchanting MacBook Air ad song?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Normally I don't think of this as some kind of Slashdotty muckpit, but I gotta respond to Gordon Wagner and say "wow." Never thought expressing my hippy dippy side would instead be taken as some kind of crypto-Zooon endorsement. Or really that anything I said would be taken thus.
Oh! I get it! Yes, I described the Air as (compromised), which is imprecise. Perhaps better to say "ultrathin notebook that made compromises on some features to achieve good things on others like all ultrathins do in some way or another but I'd still buy this one first because it's a mac?"
No, I was just very sleepily happy to hear such pretty music and thought it was nice to see such an awesome video and thus enjoy a song without associating it with any product, even one I love fervently.
What would help recover my mac partisan badge? I could fellate Steve onstage at the next Macworld. It'd be fun for all of us. I'm told I'm very good at it. Would you like me to lick Steve's love pump? We could film it and then do all that editing like the iPod ads and we'd be all solid black against bright dayglo backgrounds and the money shot would...
Well.
This must be the first time I've ever run afoul of the thing some people describe when they slip from the mac party line just a tiny bit. Does it matter one whit that I've personally spent tens of thousands of dollars on Mac gear over the last 11 years, have spent hundreds of thousands of other people's money on it for various businesses, would do so again, and would probably grab my 12" powerbook the same time as my kids on the way out of the house in a fire?
Actually, it would probably not, because now I have slipped up and said intemperate things in Public that betray The Cause. It matters not that my feelings about the product from Redmond are unmixed and spiteful; never take sides against the family.
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toxic pall
[Read the article: Economic growth slows from a sprint to near-paralysis]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]toxic pall thy name is George.
or is it Ben?
Countrywide?
Texas Pacific?
or wait...
oh dear.
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exactly
[Read the article: Mitt Romney's Mormon detour]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]equivalent to a pope's demise and milestone in the church's history
Exactly, and one wonders if it shouldn't be accorded the same treatment by American voters: being ignored.
The deaths of these leading ambassadors from the specific foreign power of Christianity (in all its flavors, denominations and offshoots) are of little concern to us trying to make up our minds about the actual candidates. Or at least, I wish they were. And I'm Christian. I don't even have to imagine what non-religious people think (annoyed, appalled, disinterested).
How many popes died during Washington's two terms*? How many prophets? Would he have traveled to Rome for the funeral, you think? Would he even have sent Jefferson? America's local and temporal concerns at the turning points of our democracy should be more important than the passing of spiritual powers.
*turns out it's none. Pius VI reigned longer than George served as president.
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OH MEH
[Read the article: Undecided '08: Should I vote for Clinton or Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]meh meh Meh. Some day my prince or princess will come: our children will in their lifetimes see better black men and better white women run for this office. They will see better white men or latin women run too. It's possible there will one day be better Republicans than these compromised Democrats!
One small comfort of being a white male, with those oft-smothering institutions that uphold us, are those sports metaphors always ready at hand. 755 home runs and 61 in a season were unbeatable. Never again will there be a better chance for a team to go undefeated than there was for the 1972 Dolphins. Wait. Never again will there be a chance for a team to go undefeated the way the Patriots-- Wait.
Greatness comes back. To be supplanted over and over and over again. You will get a clear choice one day (if you believe like I do, it will come so quickly no matter who the GOP nominee is). We will get to cheer greatness. Or our children will. Does it matter if you don't? Greatness always comes back.
It's a quiet voting booth. If you're that torn, believe me no one cares or notices if you just. flip. a. coin.
What is the sound of one shoulder shrugging? meh.
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Don't Feed the Troll
[Read the article: Super Tuesday results]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've gone back through his other letters, and Factodius, I don't know if anyone else has said this, but you are a fucking troll.
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so I don't even need to read this, right?
[Read the article: What I really wanted to say to Chris Matthews]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And I didn't.
Cuz the title says all I need to know: author doesn't say something when she has a golden opportunity but says so in print afterwards? big deal! I'm not going to tell you how to do your jobs, Salon editors, but that title drives me away every time.