Letters to the Editor
Mike J Y Wood
Published Letters: 103 Editor's Choice: 12
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Was this taken out of context?
[Read the article: Matthews rails against "Clinton-centric world" ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Was this taken out of context? I didn't see this happen and the video and transcript start while there is a discussion already going on.
I read what Mathews said as people should be talking about the endorsement itself, and not how it relates to an old friend of the Clinton's endorsing someone else. Which I think is a compeltely valid argument. If an old Obama friend endorsed Clinton the discussion should be focued around why they endorsed Clinton, not how it made Obama feel.
Of course, I don't know what context this rant was made in because it was not provided. Sigh.
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@ShawnWM
[Read the article: A boom in Democratic registrations]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Obama has been unable to win ANY big electorate states that any Democrat will need ranging from New York and Mass to California and Florida"
While Florida is a state that is important for a candidate to win it's pretty easy to assume that NY, Mass and Cali would vote for pretty much anyone on the democratic ticket. Those are 3 solidly blue states, McCain has no shot at them.
If you want to make an argument about electability you might want to focus on the electoral value of the states that could go red or blue and who has a better shot at winning them. Otherwise you might appear ... unhinged.
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@ShawnWM ... please enlighten me
[Read the article: A boom in Democratic registrations]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Yeah, you just ignore history and all the evidence to the contrary. Have a good bottle of strong tequilla handy on election night, and stay far away from those of us who told you so for your own saftey."
Shawn, could you please explain all the history I'm ignoring. Perhaps NY, CA and Mass have been voting for Republican presidential candidates all these past elections, and I've somehow missed that. Also, I'd appreciate you telling me all the evidence you have that points to those states not voting for a democrat this general election.
Also, if you could tell me the Tequila (btw, that's the correct spelling) you're drinking I'd really appreciate it. Must be some powerful stuff.
Thanks!
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Firefox plug in please
[Read the article: My new start-up: I Google For You]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm expected to search without a firefox plug in? I never actually go to google, I just type something into the toolbar search box. Sigh.
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What's greener? Prius vs used Honda Accord
[Read the article: Record gas prices equal record Prius sales]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've already made my purchase but a few months back I dithered between the green value of a brand new Prius and a 10 year old used Honda Accord. Eventually price (I saved $20k) won out but I still wondered if the fuel efficiency of the Prius vs a car that's not-too-bad in fuel efficiency made up for the manufacture of yet another vehicle. It takes oil to build these things too.
Though I've already bought my car I'm still curious. Is it better to reduce (your gas) or reuse (a car)? Anyone wanna weigh in?
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Dueling articles!
[Read the article: Hillary's bridge back to the 20th century]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So here we have the soft lensed Clinton article. At the same time a soft lensed Obama article (http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/04/03/obama/)
is also on Salon. Clinton's in the header right now but I'll guess that they'll be switching it back and forth.
It will be interesting to see which article generates the nastier letters. Anyone wanna place bets?
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Dueling articles!
[Read the article: The Obama difference]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So here we have the soft lensed Obama article. At the same time a soft lensed Clinton article (http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/04/03/hillary/index.html)
is also on Salon. Clinton's in the header right now but I'll guess that they'll be switching it back and forth.
It will be interesting to see which article generates the nastier letters. Anyone wanna place bets?
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Maybe the opposite
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since this poll is paper thin (not to mention old) how about a completely different, and unsubstantiated, hypothesis.
Barrack Obama has made the country less racist.
Hillary Clinton has made the country more sexist.
Do I have much data to back up this point? No, not really, but that doesn't seem to stop overreaching theories in this blog.
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Yowza!
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow. Now there's a punchline that's gonna get the letter's section going!
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Just because you think MS products suck
[Read the article: Microsoft vs. Yahoo: First duel, then merge?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Farhad,
I'm not going to argue that you don't have a good understanding of technological products. And I'm not going to argue with you about whether or not MS has produced good products, or rather gained dominance from various other means, ie market dominance.
BUT do you think that MSoft execs don't understand the business? There are multiple reasons why they might want Yahoo. To get their technology. Redirect their highly hit web sites to MS content. Skilled employees; even if a hostile takeover causes many director level employees to leave they'd still keep a ton of highly educated employees that wont bother leaving. And I'm sure there's lots of other reasons why MS would want to do this.
Now we know you hate M$oft and ... that's OK. But don't think that MS are business fools, and don't think that Google isn't scared about any change in the environment they currently dominate.