Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 316 Editor's Choice: 32
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Fresh herbs for less than $2 a bunch?
[Read the article: Kitchen gadgets: Do you need an indoor herb garden?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Everywhere?
All my local grocery stores (not "big box", just local) carry at LEAST (like Farhad says) cilantro, a couple of kinds of parsley, and a couple others, usually at a per-bunch price of $0.50 to $1.00. And usually they have potted herbs too that you can buy and take home to put on your windowsill. And I do live in a city, but it's not a huge cultural mecca or anything.
Actually, Basil grows GREAT in the house year-round as long as it gets sun. You don't need a special grow-light for it.
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Oh, COME ON people-who-think-we're-all-being-dog-bleeding hearts
[Read the article: Why do Republicans hate puppies?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1) Strapping your dog in a carrier on the roof of your car--especially for a LONG drive--is about the stupidest thing I can think of to do, if you give even a minor damn about your family pet. What if the straps fail? A crate big enough to hold an Irish Setter (which I understand is what the dog was) is DANGEROUS. The straps fail, not only does the dog end up dead, you probably will take out a motorist or two as well. Living creatures belong inside the car--strap your STUFF on top of the car.
2) The way Huckabee's son behaves IS a reflection on Huckabee, no matter what. Maybe that's not fair, but there it is. What the kid did was cruel (and he WAS a kid, was he not?). Where did he pick up such cruelty? Hmmm... skinny mangy dog. Take it to a vet where it might be euthanized humanely? Nope, let's hang it and torture it, yippee!
3) Most of the hunters I've known are not cruel people. They do like to hunt, but it's a matter of pride that the animal doesn't suffer.
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Salon already wrote that article...
[Read the article: Real! Live! American girls!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How about an article about these dolls, and the people who purchase them, Salon? Instead of this ridiculously odd, handwringing slow newsday of comparing a child's toy to a sex doll. I think this column has officially jumped the shark.
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http://dir.salon.com/story/mwt/feature/2005/10/11/real_dolls/index.html
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Pammy61, what do you care?
[Read the article: How to solve America's water problems]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If the neighbors talk about you? (And BTW, if you think the neighbors in whatever not-Ohio, not-Michigan state you're living in AREN'T talking about you--or each other--you don't know human nature very well, do you?)
I live in what my boyfriend calls a suburban boho neighborhood in Columbus, Oh (but it's really Columbus, north Clintonville area). It's walkable, housing is cheap (My mortgage for my little house is half what my friend in L.A. pays for her 500-square foot apartment) and I live 5 miles from work. I'm near a gym, a gourmet grocery store, a theater that shows GOOD movies, bookstores, thrift shops--nearly anything I want is within a 3-mile radius of me. And today the temperature is 65 degrees, and it's sunny.
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"Poisionous nuts, each and every one (sic)"
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I live here. I CHOSE to move back here from the Chicago area. I went to Ohio State. I have a good job. I can speak English. Nobody I know burned couches (although occasionally a couch was accidentally set on fire with an errant cigarette during a party--my brother's apartment burned down that way).
So why all the vitriol? I mean, jeebus--the Cubs ALWAYS choke, and you never hear this kind of nastiness. Columbus is nice. Inexpensive houses (unlike the Chicago 'burbs, where they're pulling down all the small old houses and replacing them with monstrosities on the tiny lots), lots of stuff to do that you can actually afford and actually GET to. There are jobs here (GOOD jobs). It's a highly livable small city.
I always used to joke about Columbus' inferiority complex, but god, I'm starting to see where it comes from.
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@Lynx
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dude, I'm not going to get in to a pissing match with you. What did Ohio State do, steal your girlfriend? You didn't like it here--fine. I just don't think we're all "poisonous".
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Can't replace the battery
[Read the article: Apple's solid Macworld is kind of a letdown]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Once again, the battery is not user-replaceable. Feh. And no CD/DVD drive? Double feh.
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How'd Jon Stewart get his correspondents back?
[Read the article: TV Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Samantha Bee and John Oliver were on, and I thought they were both WGA members? Samantha Bee had a taped segment, but John Oliver was live. I just wondered if someone could explain this to me?
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At least we know
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Considering McCain's age, that longevity and mental clarity run hand-in-hand in the family.
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Jurassic Park
[Read the article: Take heed, Apple: The iPhone wants to be free]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just sayin'
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I'm typing this from an ASUS EEE PC
[Read the article: Will they call it Microhoo? Yahosoft? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was so excited when I bought it, and I am STILL excited about it. When I saw the MacBook Air, I wondered why anyone would want one when they could get the EEE PC, which is thicker but smaller, and costs about 1/3 what an Air does.
Apple won't ever be really competitive until they either divorce their software from their hardware, or until they make their hardware easier for a user to repair/upgrade. When the video went out on my boyfriend's Emac, we were going to have it repaired until we realized it would cost us as much to repair as it would to buy a refurbished PC with Vista Home Premium. Oops--there goes another Mac home (and that thing was only 3.5 years old--my oldest PC is 7 years old and works fine. Ugly looking old thing, but works fine).
Similarly, they will never capture 10% of the cellphone market without allowing the iPhone to be used on other cell carriers. Someone else is already making the same thing, but cheaper and more widely available.
Something else that's being ignored is home automation. As prices go down, and incentives to control all the electrics in your home from a central interface go up (energy savings, security) home automation will start looking more attractive--and the least expensive, most customizable systems work well with Windows.
I think for the foreseeable future, people are going to move increasingly toward ever more bastardized mixes of freeware and traditional software that works well with others. Windows apps and Linux apps, in general, talk to each other rather well--I can write something in OpenOffice in Gentoo and move it over to MS Word with a minimum of fuss. LESS important will be the actual hardware you use. And MS isn't a hardware company...
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OR Xbox will make good on plans to stream Netflix on demand
[Read the article: Wii and PS3 projected to eclipse XBox 360]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And the whole Blu-Ray/HD-DVD debate will be moot...