Letters to the Editor
Serai1
Published Letters: 503 Editor's Choice: 32
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*eyeroll*
[Read the article: The best-laid plans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Uh huh, very cute. People make way too much out of this shit. It's just sex, for gods' sakes, not rocket science. If you want to get laid, get laid. If not, don't. BFD.
Oh, and I can't imagine what planet this girl lives on. Here on earth, there's always some guy around who'll be happy to tumble, especially with a chippy who looks like that. Maybe her standards are too high. But like others have said, who cares?
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Uh huh
[Read the article: My Winona, your Winona, our Winona]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry, but I've never gotten the Winona thing. Yes, she's cute in a Keane-kid kinda way, if you like that sort of thing. But she sucks as an actress, always has. The only time I've ever believed a performance of hers was in How to Make an American Quilt, where she played a spoiled, whiny little chippy. And that was because the casting was so spot on.
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*shrug*
[Read the article: Peak oil? Consider it solved]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sure, we could stop the process of global warming and clean up the planet. Like Dorothy, we've always had the power. The question is, will we? The answer is simply: NO.
Setting aside the Pollyanna view of humanity, we are not an essentially good species. We're selfish, rapacious and greedy. We do whatever it takes to make ourselves comfortable, we'll barrel over anybody to do so, and we don't give a shit about the future. When we say we care about posterity, we mean specifically our children, not anybody else's. And even there it's a backhanded concern at best, because while we'll do what we can to put 'em into good schools, we certainly don't teach them how to live so they won't end up drowning, broiling or breathing poison inside of fifty years. And that's just those of us who care at least a little. A lot of us don't care AT ALL. We just want what's nice RIGHT NOW, and if it means our descendants die in misery, tough shit.
Face it. We are not the pinnacle of evolution, we're the fucking NADIR. We are the engine of the biosphere's destruction. It's all going to end up completely crapped up and bloody because of us. If we're lucky, there may be enough species left to re-populate given fifty thousand years or so, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
That's our legacy, folks. I'm just glad neither I nor any descendants of mind will be around to see it.
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*eyeroll*
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So Heather is disappointed with Lost because the "problems" are getting solved in each episode to her particular satisfaction. It's taking too long! The answers aren't right! Whine, whine, whine. Why doesn't any of this surprise me?
Lost isn't for people who want answersnowdammit! It's for people who are willing to go the long haul, to have patience and see how it all turns out. What so many people don't get about the show is that it's not a series of short stories, like most TV series - it's one long novel. Do you expect a mystery novel to give you answers in every single chapter? If you wouldn't feel cheated by that, you're not a mystery lover.
You're miffed by all the guns and think it's boring? (Have you been watching, Heather? People have been waving guns on that island since the third or fourth episode of the show, or didn't you notice?) The show goes through phases precisely because of the long novel-like rhythms of it. Last season, I was getting bored when the whole King-Benry dynamic was being played out over lots and lots of episodes. But I stuck with it because I realized it's a long story that has many ins and outs, and just because I don't get why a piece of the puzzle is there doesn't mean it's senseless. It just means I don't have all the information yet. And getting that information is most of the fun. Sometimes I think I know the answer, but then I don't. Sometimes a plot twist seems silly or self-serving, but two or three episodes (or a whole season) later, it falls into place and I get why it was there.
That kind of intricacy is pretty rare in television, and I for one, love it. I know this story won't be completely told until the end, two years from now, and that's okay with me. If it chaps your ass, Heather, why the hell are you still tuning in? It's not like the show's convoluted nature is news anymore. You can always watch Boston Legal if you really really need to get your answers each week. (Another great show, by the way, but in a different way.) The rest of us will be happy with the odd, intricate, goofy grandeur of Lost
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I see
[Read the article: Planned Parenthood's condoms for women]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So, Sarah, you would rather women didn't carry condoms, eh? Because it's better that "stereotypes" are avoided. Because your personal idea of what women should want trumps the reality that women apparently find traditional condom packaging embarrassing or boring. The gods FORBID that Planned Parenthood should actually try to fulfill their mission by providing contraception that will actually be USED, if that contraception comes in a box with a nice-looking design. Better AIDS and STD's run rampant than nice-looking packaging OH NOEZ!!!111!!!
And you all wonder why so many women consider "feminism" to be a dirty word. As they say on the intarwebz, "STFU. You're making my movement look bad."
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Awwww, butthurt much?
[Read the article: McCain Girl responds]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you don't rant and rave about it
Clearly, she's not been on the internet long, has she? Yeah, she's got a job to do, she's REALLY BUSY OMG. But she's got time to read all the responses to her video, right?
Toughen up, girl. If you put stuff out on the internet, you're gonna get feedback. And the net being what it is, 75% of it is going to be poop-flinging. That's just the way it is. Don't like it, go sing your songs at the corner bar.