Letters to the Editor
Serai1
Published Letters: 503 Editor's Choice: 32
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Lame analogy
[Read the article: Yes, AT&T is losing its mind (and might filter the Internet)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A security guard doesn't nab a shoplifter because it's "right". He does it because he's paid by the store, and the store would lose money. Since the content that is allegedly being "stolen" doesn't belong to AT&T in the first place, the analogy is worthless.
Also, I don't know about you, but I mind my own fucking business when I'm shopping. Somebody's stealing? Let the personnel, whose job it is, handle it. I'm not gonna get involved and possibly get entangled in legal problems. Which is EXACTLY the risk these guys would be taking. True, I don't expect them to care, since they could easily get Congress to collude in their fascistic crap, but that doesn't mean they won't have headaches in the courts until they get their way.
And of course, there's one thing we could do to thwart them (strange and difficult as it may seem to a lot of people): we could just cancel the service. It's perfectly possible to live without the internet. You just have to WANT to do it. Given the choice between living with Big Brother snorting over my electronic shoulder, or doing without, I know what my choice would be, thanks.
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For gods sakes
[Read the article: No more food stamps. You've eaten enough]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The reason there's obesity among poor people is that the only food they can easily afford is PURE CRAP. If the right is SO concerned about the issue, how about restructuring the food industry so that good food is cheap and the SHIT is expensive? I guarantee you'd see people's weight dropping all over the country!
Damn, I cannot BELIEVE these people. So many of them claim to be Christians, yet they don't seem to have read a single word of what Jesus said. You're supposed to HELP THE POOR, assholes, not spend your lives trying to get rich at their expense.
Feh.
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Really?
[Read the article: Pre-spinning South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Regardless of today's outcome, the race quickly shifts to Florida, where hundreds of thousands of Democrats will turn out to vote on Tuesday."
Hundreds of thousands? That's all you've got? How many people live in Florida again?
Sounds like it might not be the slam-dunk they think it is.
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Attention begging much?
[Read the article: Honor killings and Islam]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What's matter, Tracy - writing not good enough for you anymore? We have to WATCH you telling us your so! relevant! thoughts? You know, it wasn't until these silly little videos started popping up that I realized you were barely out of your teens. Now all the speshul opinions make sense.
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That was lovely
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks, Berk. You get it.
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*snicker*
[Read the article: Bill Clinton: The Chris Matthews of South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Barry and Hilly can go on fighting over their toys and throwing sand at each other. I'll be voting for the grown-up, thanks.
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@AKA Smith
[Read the article: Bill Clinton: The Chris Matthews of South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and then there is a step back and a sort of "Oh my, isn't that awful!"
That's happened before. It's kind of endemic to Salon. They jump in the water with the rest of the tabloid MSM, then when they think it'll look good, they bemoan the "awfulness" of such tactics. Pure hypocrisy, actually. I don't see Glenn doing it much, though, which is why I'll usually respect what he has to say.
Joan and the Broadsheet people, on the other hand...
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News flash: Hollywood is getting dumber!!
[Read the article: The long-term stupidity of global Hollywood]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]*yawn*
I've been hearing this all my life. Hollywood films are appealing to the Unwashed Masses, CulCHAH is getting eviscerated, and the sky is falling WOE!! It's old and tired, and frankly, boring.
Anyone who thinks that Hollywood movies are only now becoming dumb has not been paying attention the last, oh, eighty years or so. The majority of Hollywood output has always been trite, simplistic and lowest-denominator. The only reason critics can get away with bemoaning the "golden days" is that nobody remembers the 85% of shit that's been pumped out the Dream Factory on a regular basis through the years. The good stuff gets remembered because it's good. The crap gets forgotten (except by crap enthusiasts, who are their own breed), enabling those who live off their opinions to pretend that things are getting worse when in fact they're pretty much the same as they've always been.
The occasional wave of "serious" (read: about something) films are always to be welcomed, of course. Nobody can live on a diet of cheese puffs and chocolate cupcakes for long. But those waves are cyclical; they've been happening for as long as films have been made here in LaLaLand, and their arrival and departure are always trumped as being indicative of something. They are: they're indicative of the fact that people will get tired of crap and want good stuff for a change. Then, when they've had their nourishing stew and whole wheat bread, they'll go back to chips and Pepsi. That's not some doomsday trend, it's just the way humans are.
Given that, can you blame Hollywood for noticing that pretty much everyone is like that, no matter where you are? The vast majority of people work hard for a living and just want to have a good time when they relax. The movie industry is just doing what is normal for industries: making money off reality. You think the majority of films overseas aren't silly and vapid? Then you haven't watched many Bollywood films.
This Chicken Little stuff is amusing to read about, but it's hardly the disaster that's claimed here. There will always be people making good films for those that want to see good films. And there will always be smart suits who realize that there is a market for good films, albeit a small one. The rest, to paraphrase the Bard, is dreck.