Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 74 Editor's Choice: 6
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ahhh! ahhh! my teeth are trying to eat the back of my head!
[Read the article: Rush Limbaugh was right]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There is no Left. Jesus Christ, people. These aren't left wing critics. We killed the left. WE aborted it. What LEFT? What? No socialism, no revolution, no risk, no mass nonviolent resistance. Emma Goldman is dead. Max Eastman is dead. Cesar Chavez is dead. Gandhi is dead. WE are not The Left.
Here, go find some magazine covers with bite:
http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/spec_col/radicalism/exhibits/masses/
(July and August 1915 are good ones)
And cartoons from there: http://www.marxists.org/subject/art/visual_arts/satire/pub/masses/
Or something a little more recent: http://www.punchcartoons.com/
Come on, do people seriously think this is the reaction of a "left wing"? This uproar over a magazine cover? This is the left with their balls chopped off or absent their estrogen. The left as Young Frankenstein's creature, an animated corpse with Abby Normal's brain. The left a wan shadow of a brief and fading dream.
"We are the dead."
"You are the dead. (...) Remain exactly where you are. Make no movement until you are ordered."
But don't give up hope. Everyone is cured sooner or later. In the end we shall shoot you
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uh, what?
[Read the article: And the next great American beer will be...? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nothing remains of the Grain Belt Brewery save this kitschy sign, but the beer is produced in Minnesota, by Schell, which bought the brand in 2002.
And? Being bought by Schell isn't exactly like being bought out by some massive beverage conglomerate. They produce some of the most stylistically notable continental lagers in the U.S. (Schell Pils, Schell Firebrick which revives the Vienna style, and one of the few spot-on altbiers brewed in this country). Their cheap deer brand (maybe it's called 'original' now?) and the aforementioned Grain Belt both have wonderful claims to make on the national-low-brow-everybeer sweepstakes this article seems to consider relevant.
Look, I don't work for them (if only, gawd!) but it's not like Grain Belt was a sellout to Unibev or Miller or something, Schell saved that beer, "branding" matters aside.
The brewery was founded in 1860 for crying out loud! Name one American-owned brewery that old (there's maybe 2).
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the hipster factor
[Read the article: And the next great American beer will be...? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]some of this surely must have something to do with those if us who fell passionately in love with beer and brewing culture in the 90s, which of course means we'd found a significant and meaningful subcultural niche and were comfortable. As passion and comfort are exactly the things ironic cold hipsters can't stand, the hunt was on for the most ridiculously arch interest in something precisely opposite a vibrant diverse homebrewing scene. Things were made worse that there were already older, hairier men with engineering degrees pAssionately engaged by quality beer and homebrewing. It hardly matters if the trend got momentum from Oregon, Austin, or ...Iowa. The homebrewers had gotten to the good beer first and the hipsters Had to find something thy could embrace. Cheap beer was their destiny. Some of them will change and start drinking the good stuff; maybe once they have kids.
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Actually...
[Read the article: In defense of race-based rooting]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think we whites are racist, in the sense we benefit from a racist culture that extends us the privileges we have; and we protect our status, both subtly and unsubtly. However, I don't think that makes us trapped or automatically ugly racist allies of the bigoted members of white power movements. We have an opportunity to create an anti-racist identity for ourselves and I think what Mr. Kamiya is suggesting in this article can play a part in such identity formation.
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Michelle Mk II
[Read the article: Who is Sarah Palin?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sarah Palin looks to me like the McCain-era Michelle Bachmann. You all remember when our esteemed congresswoman (I'm from Minnesota though I'm in Keith Ellison's district) unfurled her leathery wings to embrace Georgie at the state of the union, right? More of the same here. Only, you know, way closer to the center of power. ShudDER.
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You know what I hate?
[Read the article: John McCain's female card]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Turns out it's most of salon's readers, that's what. These letters are dull And depressing and most of them misguided. Gawd we are a bunch of screaming assholes.
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denouement?
[Read the article: Father of Bristol Palin's child to attend GOP convention]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]@Harry Cheddar: "some dedicated young liberal woman"?? I say some dedicated young conservative man would be a more fun bet. You want a real story, let's have one of the Republicans' senators or congressmen invite ol' Levi to be a page! yeeeeehaaawww!
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no no people don't get off that easy
[Read the article: Sarah Palin's pastor problem ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fuck you katetex and everyone like you--I've listened to 24 months of false accusations against Barack Obama for daring to seek the chance to lead and being the new guy--people treated him like the new bitch and they're still getting away with it. I don't care. The stakes are high enough that I won't apologize if an arrogant witling hypocritically addresses America like the second coming of Bush and then gets exposed as a slimy double dealer neofascist theocrat who thinks nothing of shitting on the constitution. I'm burning the bridge now, babies. I'm with Glenn Greenwald: no more kid gloves.
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salon readers
[Read the article: Crazy time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you're all behaving like idiots. behaving, not are. get into the ground game. make it happen.
pumas: no one cares! no one actually cares except you.
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a better headlin
[Read the article: McCain camp responds angrily to S.C. Dem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"McCain camp responds angrily..."
"Dog bites man."
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I must disagree
[Read the article: Forget about a governing majority in 2008]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't think the 50 state strategy sounds stupid, just damn expensive! I mean, we get it Tom, we really do: ditch the south, hit the north and west hard. Yes. Yes. Hey, I was ready to let go of that dream four years ago (http://fuckthesouth.com anyone?). But calling it stupid is counter factual. Any strategy should encompass a whole, or stop calling itself a strategy.
Now, it serves the strategy to tactically win these elections by whatever works, but don't call the whole strategy stupid.