The anonymous “doctor” could only have been Sen Frist with another long distance diagnosis.

Ted

I agree with the other posters. Take the video down.

I swear, if Jonathon Swift had published "A Modest Proposal" on Salon seventy five per cent of you would be ranting your brains out about this monster that wants the British to eat Irish children.

Also every Garrison article brings out the same nutjob that calls him a slimeball because he was not a good hubby.

Us Lefties used to have a sense of humor. No more.

I can't think of any sport aside from basketball that gives a team that commits an illegal act, a foul, an advantage. If a team is down by three in the waning seconds how do you stop them? Great defense? Naw just foul them. Even letting them have a choice of not taking the free throws makes them have to get the ball inbounds and another opportunity for the fouling team. Make it last two minutes not in the act of shooting you get free throws and you get the ball back.

"There is no reply, but the silence is taken as a tacit, if not exactly proper, acknowledgment."

I spent a lot of years as a ground control intercept officer in the Air Force. Silence was never considered an acknowledgment of an instruction. An immediate "KLM do you read" would have followed and another non answer would have resulted in an order for an abort. Of course the aircraft I controlled were in the air and visible on my scope and I always had some idea of what was going on. On the ground, in the fog, without ground radar the tower controller was in a situation were things were getting hairy fast. In the end it seems that the KLM pilot had let impatience overrule his judgment.

So Rob if your daughter happened to be playing basketball down at Rutgers and good old Don broadcast all over the US "you know that Rob guy? Well his daughter is a whore." Then your daughter called you and said daddy why did he say that terrible untrue thing about me? You'd just tell her to buck up cause Don was just having fun and didn't mean it except as a joke.

This was a broadcast where specific people, not public figures, were possibly libeled by Mr. Imus. I'm sure his bosses are figuring that their legal costs are probably going to be quite high.

Thank you, Rebecca , for a very well written and very enjoyable essay.

And now onto Salon. Thank you for your new policy of making everyone register. It seems to have helped a little to keep things a little less flammable. However your absolutely ridiculous decision to continue to allow people to post as "Anonymous" continues. Read this thread, it's short. Can we tell if the first anonymous troll is the same person as the "I'm an author" "Anonymous"? No. Should we be able to. Yes.

As I wrote you in an E-mail even the lamest fanboi gamer site requires a nick to post. I read some posts that implied that using a nick would allow people to "find out who I really am". As my Grandfather used to say, "what booshwah". Yes I know thats how it works in Table Talk but letters is where the action is. You may like to think it's like "letters to the editor" here but the fact is the letters are forums where there is rapid back and forth communications. Please, please, please, no nick no post.

Well I see Rob has trolled on in to give us his witty insight as to our stupidity. In case you didn't know Rob has a "Help me save Don Imus' sorry ass" web site. In the words of the immortal Bugs, "What a maroon".

When you're feeling blue go up to Anaheim and catch the Angels playing the Yankees. I don't know how they do it but there will be more Yankee fans than Angel fans at the game. They'll all get shit faced and start fights and curse like sailors in front of the families there. And if you're really lucky they'll spill their beer on you. If you think I'm making this up you are dead wrong. It never fails. You'll feel right at home and the memories will probably get you through another week in San Diego. I went to college there and grammer school too. It's a great place to live. If it's just too laid back do as another poster said and try L.A. Lots and lots of "A" types up here.

You are kidding right? Do you not get out of bed any more? When you go to work do you refuse assignments because they have nothing to do with Iraq? Are your fellow employees ready to stuff you in the broom closet.

There is enough stuff written and letters posted on Salon about politics and Iraq and Bush to keep you busy for hours if you read it all. Maybe Heather should only write about what she saw on CSPAN. What a strange letter.

Sandra Tsing Loh was herself canned from a radio station. She was working at KCRW here in LA. She has a short program where she talks about life in the Valley and LA. Her engineer had been forewarned and fell asleep at the bleep switch. (or so the story goes) She made a comment about needing to hurry home to fuck her husband. It went out as spoken and she was canned by the Public Radio station. Her fans raised a stink and she was hired by KPCC, another Public station.