Letters to the Editor
Gordon Wagner
Published Letters: 590 Editor's Choice: 16
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Is this the correct URL for Salon..?
[Read the article: Our Jennifer fixation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Then why am I looking at Jennifer Aniston? I've never watched "Friends" and I couldn't care less about Jen aside from her superb mammary glands. She's a dumb little puppy whose extended career has ended, yet somehow she didn't get that memo. Jen, PLEASE do a Playboy shoot and then fade away.
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Madonna?
[Read the article: Dancing as fast as she can]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jennifer Aniston? Madonna? What's going on at Salon, exactly? This is embarrassing.
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A concise thought
[Read the article: Case closed?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"The men who killed Kennedy are still in power."
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"King Kong" is a waste of time, avoid it.
[Read the article: "King Kong"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I left the theatre forty-five minutes ago and I'm STILL pissed off at sitting through "King Kong." Who would cast Jack Black as Carl Denham?! Can no one EDIT a movie any more? Do I own the final razor blade and roll of scotch tape on earth!?
It says something that I'm still physically pulsing with anger at this piece of shit remake. Didn't I sit through those dinosaurs in "Jurrassic Park"? Didn't I see those man-eating worms in "Deep Rising"? Can no one in Hollywood TELL A GOOD STORY any more? This movie was so bad that it was hard not to start to talk back to the screen sitting right there in the theatre.
Watch the 1933 original -- at least they told a good story. But this 2005 remake isn't just a BAD movie or a DISAPPOINTMENT, it's a waste of my time. I thought the 1976 remake was bad! It was only BORING, I didn't leave the theatre ready to kill!
I can't get my time nor my money back, so I'll leave it at this: AVOID SEEING THIS REMAKE OF KING KONG. DON'T GO TO THE MOVIES. DON'T BUY THE DVD. DON'T WATCH IT ON PAY-PER-VIEW. Don't honor overblown crap with your time or money.
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Equal partners..?
[Read the article: Special delivery for mail-order brides]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]was writ: Because they are intimidated why grown-up women who want to be equal partners rather than submissive decorations?
Because American women make the very worst wives on earth..?
Why does John Collier's "His Monkey Bride" spring to mind..?
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What about his AIPAC connections?
[Read the article: Abramoff won't go down alone]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Still more interesting, how about his half-ownership of a Florida gambling boat frequented by Mohammed Atta pre-9/11/01..??? Or are we straying away from the purview of "mainstream" media..?
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Mm Hmm
[Read the article: The war against Prius "smugmobiles"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some computer friends [MOPAR drivers] love to give me a ration of shit over my Prius -- it'll never pay off, a replacement battery will cost you a fortune -- What I notice is that I'm spending a third of what I used to spend on gasoline.
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Too bad he didn't travel to Europe for medical attention
[Read the article: The end of the Sharon era]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ideally to a country with a warrant out for his arrest for his extensive war crimes. Sabra and Shatila? Act as if you've never heard the names.
If any other country had perpetrated half the atrocities that I$rael has done there would be an unprecedented outcry from the rest of the world, but somehow the blood just runs off the I$raeli teflon.
Without an endless flow of US "aid" money, I$rael couldn't stomp the indiginous people of that area as flat as they have been doing. Yet the concept of reducing (or eliminating) "aid" is unspeakable, invoking that splendidly crafted smokescreen/shell game of "Jewish" and "Zionist" and "I$raeli" and the thermonuclear trump card of "The Holocaust"(tm) -- the cornerstone of an industry.
Ariel Sharon? As braindead as Karen Ann Quinlan. That was news on Wednesday. But our beloved "mainstream" media once again withholds the truth so that behind-the-scene scuttling can take place and the next cockroach can seize the controls.
My favorite Sharon quote: On October 3, 2001, I.A.P. News reported that according to Israel Radio (in Hebrew) Kol Yisrael an acrimonious argument erupted during the Israeli cabinet weekly session last week between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his foreign Minister Shimon Peres. Peres warned Sharon that refusing to heed incessant American requests for a cease-fire with the Palestinians would endanger Israeli interests and "turn the US against us. "Sharon reportedly yelled at Peres, saying "don't worry about American pressure, we the Jewish people control America."
What did George Washington say about entangling foreign alliances..? Oh, I don't know -- it was so long ago! It probably wasn't anything important...
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Aldous Schenk's religious practices and headwear
[Read the article: What's in a hat?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Where the hell do you find a watermelon in late February..???
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Are you putting me on..?
[Read the article: Motherfracker!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let Cylons be Cylons...
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I hate flying.
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No matter how long a list of reasons for this or that disaster, the visceral reality of what is happening to you at a given moment is undeniable. Oxygen mask dropping in front of my face while on an airline flight? You bet I'll be using extraordinarily descriptive language in my blog, IF I MAKE IT BACK TO THE GROUND INTACT.
What do you imagine that Aloha Airlines stewie had running through her head as she realized she was out of the aircraft and headed towards an engine intake..? My guess is that she wasn't consoling herself with how rare the situation was.
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Do your button shoes feel a little tight this morning..?
[Read the article: Howard's world]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Of COURSE people of a good stripe don't listen to Howard Stern, everyone KNOWS that.
ALL he has to offer is filth! It's just filth!!
Until you listen. And you hear a modern-day incarnation of Groucho Marx. And you realize that you quite thoroughly enjoy four hours a day of entertainment, news and bullshit. Without the endless shit-fake-bastard patina that covers everyone and everything else in the entertainment world.
$12 a month? A non-issue.
Actually that much money is more than worth it to see lobbyists pull the strings of Congress to try and get them to allow the FCC to regulate satellite radio, Constitution and Bill of Rights be damned.
Where else but the Howard Stern show could you ever hear the simple truth that the religious right is full of shit? Expressed just that way?
It says something that millions of listeners have sought the refuge of satellite radio to keep the government out of their choice of entertainment. Fuck the FCC. Hard. With a diseased penis.
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January is the dumping ground for crappy movies
[Read the article: "Last Holiday"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And I have no doubt that this Dana Elaine Owens vehicle is any exception. And what's up with "Queen Latifah"? That's just accepted, for some reason? Bizarre.