Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 80 Editor's Choice: 1
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Subversive and daring??
[Read the article: Maureen Dowd slurs the Clintons and the Obamas]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Did we watch the same clip? Because the one I watched was cringe-inducingly derivative, leaden, and boring...sort of like watching Hilary trying to pretend she's anti-war, only even MORE forced.
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Classic
[Read the article: Spring break in Israel!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Watch the brave Knights of Zion (Keyboardist Brigade) ride in, just like clockwork, to defend the honor of these tough pioneer women! They're just like the American Frontier over there! Tough, fightin' women. They even have Injuns to kill. Well, sort of...
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PennyWhistler
[Read the article: Spring break in Israel!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What I was referring to was this:
"Sabra women are a lot like the name Sabra. I wouldn't worry about who gets which arm broken in the encounter."
Sabra, as you may already know, is the Hebrew word for the prickly-pear cactus fruit: spiky on the outside, soft on the inside. It's a term used for native-born Israelis.
Also, this
"I'm with the poster above. The Sabras I've met on exchange not only can strip down an Uzi in 60 seconds, they can keep up with Chuck Norris in the whoopass department if need be. I wouldn't shed too many tears for these ladies."
Look harder next time.
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God shat, and there was MySpace
[Read the article: Why MySpace is for freaks and Facebook is for preps]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Amen to the poster who said Facebook was better when it was only open to college students. Not only has the general world entered our social network, now they're writing snotty articles about how snotty we are, and how MySpace is the social networking site of the true revolutionary! Spare me. There are plenty of dumb goons (and plenty of "freaks") on Facebook and plenty of intelligent, sophisticated people (not to mention more than a few "preps") on MySpace, assuming you can sort through the 13-year olds with spiked hair and obnoxious music blaring from an embedded player.
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Ugh
[Read the article: I dream of Darcy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The publishers of "Dear Jane Austen: A Heroine's Guide to Life and Love" sent me a review copy, and it looks embarrassingly bad. I think we need to snap out of the 19th century worldview, and this current wave of Austen-philia isn't really doing much for that.
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Clinton-Gore '96 In '08!
[Read the article: The Hillary and Bill show]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Screw Hillary...Bill for prez in '08! Bush already gutted the Constitution--why not?
(I'm about 50% kidding)
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Where do you live??
[Read the article: Air head]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]$20 says Oliver Broudy lives in a nice, big apartment that opens up onto an airy street--maybe even a nice park. The rest of us, who live in the actual NYC, where windows most often open up onto tiny airless alleyways, receive zero circulation. So on this 92 degree day, I'm sitting in the AC, which I got yesterday, and not feeling bad at all. I wouldn't be surprised if Oliver is too...on a day like this, even the breezes are hot.
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12-step
[Read the article: Is atheism dead?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'll remember this post the next time someone tries to convince me that 12-step programs aren't religious.
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How cruel
[Read the article: The other side of international adoption]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Cross-cultural adoption" is a contradiction in terms. Babies young enough to be adopted have not yet been socialized to the point where they can say their own name, let alone understand a complex concept such as "culture." You can't lose what you never had. Sounds to me like this girl is trying to find the nastiest, most psychologically manipulative way possible to make her real mother (as in, the woman who changed her diapers, fed her, held her when she cried, helped her with her homework) feel bad.
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Wow
[Read the article: Joe Lieberman, from his indie perch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Watching him shill for Hagee is perhaps the funniest part.
And this is the kind of lunacy that's portrayed as moderation in the "liberal media."
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"Fawning?" Where can I get some of what you're smoking?
[Read the article: Giuliani's dangerous bluster]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Did you even read the New Yorker article???
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http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Pwnt
[Read the article: Ari Fleischer: It gets worse]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anonymous, I hate to break it to you, but Garry Owen pwned you severely. I'd be surprised if you could still sit down after that.
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The US Air Force:
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]winning hearts and minds since 2002.
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Boring
[Read the article: Finding the Britney Spears VMA video online]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wouldn't be surprised if she were either drunk or on opioid painkillers of some sort during that performance. She looked glassy-eyed, sluggish, and out of it. Plus MTV's server was so laggy that the video wouldn't load properly and kept on skipping even on my Columbia LAN connection, which is about as fast as it gets. Not worth my time.
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Re
[Read the article: Giuliani's proposal for endless Middle East wars on behalf of Israel ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There's a reasonable and calm response to Glenn's argument, and it goes something like this:
WAHHHHH!!!! YOU'RE AN ANTI-SEMITE!!!! YOU HATE JEWS!!!! YOU HATE FREEDOM!!!
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Um
[Read the article: Men on eHarmony seem obsessed with women who are "clean"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Better yet, what if you waited until the relationship was quite far along, and when you took your dress off it turned out that your panties were full of leaves and twigs? That would be really odd, wouldn't it? Wouldn't it remind us, too, of our connection to the soil, to the earth -- a troubled connection these days?
...That was the creepiest response I've ever seen.
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I don't know where they heard that from...
[Read the article: Hazards of the catwalk]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Vicodin doesn't really suppress your appetite. It can make you nauseous at first, but once you take it more than two or three times in a row, it can give you the munchies just like pot. It certainly wouldn't be used as a diet drug. See: Adderall, Ritalin, methamphetamines. Depressants slow you down and reduce the amount of calories your body burns. I smell bullshit.