Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 29 Editor's Choice: 3
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The most common instinct ...
[Read the article: The light's on, but is anybody home?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... seems to be that, well, it would be horrible to be the woman in question.
Which says more about us than it does about her. I have the same instinct. Yet when I thought about it for a minute, I realized there is no information whatever to indicate what her feelings might be, if she has any.
Her life might be pleasant. It's not unimaginable.
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"performance enhancing" ...
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... is a phrase that makes me a little crazy. Not that performances weren't and aren't enhanced. But if you take Barry Bonds out of the story ... OK, McGuire and Sosa, too ... plus the cycling dude and the parade of track-and-fielders -- the story of steroid use has been about keeping up with the Joneses, about having a pro sports job, about making big bucks for a couple of years ... or about just hanging onto the end of the bench.
We're talking about salary enhancing drugs, here.
And from where I sit, let them take whatever they want, attach extra robotic limbs, whatever. They're the gladiators, they're not like us anymore.
Especially the football players, for chrissake, and they're allegedly clean. Who would have thought, back in the day, that Deacon Jones or "Big Daddy" Lipscomb would, within a generation, be a size too small to make it as NFL linemen?
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Salon ought to ...
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... throw King an extra $20 just for getting "lagniappe" into a sports column.
Showoff. :-)
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Walter ...
[Read the article: The first "home-page primary"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... You're a *reporter.* You can *ask for the stats.* If the web operations of the candidates are remotely on the ball, they can *get them for you in real time.*
You're worrying me, Walter.
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I've never understood ...
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... why sportswriters and other journalists (present company excepted) rolled over on using the dumb sponsor names in print.
King, shouldn't you get $5 every time you call it "Monster (tm) Park" instead of the Giants' home field, or Candlestick II, or the House that Barry Built, or anything else?
I mean, to use a phrase I don't actually use very often, fuck them. AP style should be to write around this kind of stupid, free ad.
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I got the feeling ...
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... King, that you sort of gave up on the "Q" part of this Q and A., about three minutes in.
Good choice. ;-)
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Though maybe I thought ...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]... the Qs trailed off because someone is missing a somewhere in the html ...
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... shakes head in misery ...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]... missing a bracket slash b end-bracket, close off the boldface. Just maybe fix it and delete my three posts. ;-)
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It's SO important who the VP nominee is ...
[Read the article: Obama Veepstakes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... Ummm. Oops.
No, it's not. Never mind. Cute quiz, though.
It *always* feels like this is a big decision. But in practice, a presidential candidate's choice of running mate hasn't made a rat's ass worth of difference in any election in my lifetime except for when JFK took LBJ in 1960.
McGovern bungled his pick, but he wasn't going to win regardless.