Letters to the Editor
Yet another David
Published Letters: 99 Editor's Choice: 6
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Great dudely comedians?!
[Read the article: "Beerfest"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What the hell does "great dudely comedians" mean? From the examples of Jim Carrey and Will Farrell, it must mean "annoying without being funny." Judging from his use of phrases like "girly-man versions of Arnold Schwarzenegger," it seems to be a category to which Andrew O'Hehir aspires to belong.
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Pride
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There is blessed little to be proud of about living in Virginia these days, but I am proud of S.R. Sidarth.
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Put them all together
[Read the article: We'll take Tinky Winky in the fifth]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]S is for the sleazy deals they're making
L is for the lies they like to tell
I is for the innocence they're faking
M is for their moral turpitude
E is for their sense of entitlement
Put them all together, they spell SLIME, and Tomlinson seems to have exuded particularly high-profile slime in a remarkably short time in the public eye.
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More than evasive
[Read the article: And if my grandmother had tracks, she'd be a Bradley Fighting Vehicle]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think Ebonius is on to something here. As an acting general, Abizaid probably CAN'T just answer the question the way we'd like. But I think that by giving such an ostentatiously, extravagantly evasive response while managing to allude to Bush & Co.'s failure to commit adequate resources to manage the mess they got us into, he is sending out a message -- perhaps it was a cry for help.
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Premium subscriber
[Read the article: Who is Louis Bayard?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As a premium subscriber, I'm delighted to see a front-page story about Louis Bayard, a fine author of whom I've become a huge fan this summer, devouring three of his books in a row. I wouldn't have known about him without Salon, which featured his latest, The Pale Blue Eye, on its recommended reading list in June. I'm as addicted to The War Room, Joe Conason, and Sidney Blumenthal as anybody else, but there's more to read in Salon besides the heavyweight stuff.
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Sex tourist Rush "Viagra" Limbaugh??!!??!!
[Read the article: ABC: Foley solicited date with page]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're telling us that Rush Limbaugh still dares to throw stones after the exposure of his Viagra-fueled sex vacation in the Dominican Republic this summer????!!!! Must take a lot of Viagra to sustain brass balls like that....
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Sex tourist Rush "Viagra" Limbaugh??!!??!!
[Read the article: The right on Foley: Someone is to blame, and it isn't us]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're telling us that Rush Limbaugh still dares to throw stones after the exposure of his Viagra-fueled sex vacation in the Dominican Republic this summer????!!!! Must take a lot of Viagra to sustain brass balls like that....
(sorry -- posted this under the wrong item earlier.)
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Perpetual Karl Rove
[Read the article: The Fix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What's going on with "http://dir.salon.com/topics/the_fix/?source=newsletter"?
The photo of Karl Rove and a The Fix column from June has at the top of the list of postings every day for over a week now. Isn't this something you can spare us?
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Ouch
[Read the article: "I'm guilty of sexual immorality," Haggard tells his flock]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jeez Louise -- don't anybody else's teeth go on edge to keep reading "let he who is without sin"? (Mine do, let I tell you -- oops, I mean, let ME tell you.) It's "let HIM," no matter what kind of relative clause follows.
And the original King James quote isn't even "Let him who is without sin," it's "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone...."
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Not Schadenfreude, but...
[Read the article: Karpinski to testify against Rumsfeld]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Even though "gerechtigkeitfreude" turns up in a couple of places on the Web, the real form of this word in German would have be "Gerechtigkeitsfreude," with an "s" before the "freude." That's just the way German forms compounds of this kind...
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Penance
[Read the article: Trial by fryer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anybody else think this article reads like the "community service" portion of the author's efforts to make things right with A.?
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Other theories?
[Read the article: Another Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Does Steyn have any comparable theories for why he's such a parochial, ignorant dork?
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Good
[Read the article: Frist finds religion on his way out the Senate door]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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Verbatim
[Read the article: What Mary Cheney should expect while she's expecting]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Good essay! This was the first I'd heard about Mary Cheney's delicate condition, but I did a little Web scouting. Those quotes from the wingnuts ARE verbatim. Yikes!!!
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Hetero Angst
[Read the article: The unkindest cut]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I gave up trying to count the crybabies in this drivel. Replete with shrill and hysterical wife and mother figures, it reads like a paraphrase of one of German Gay author/cartoonist Ralf König's parodies of heterosexual family life, only mawkish and humorless. Spare us, spare us, spare us!
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Juan Williams
[Read the article: More troops for Iraq: Ready or not, here we come]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Was anybody else as disturbed as I was by Juan Williams's sycophantic interviewing style? It reminded me more of faux reporter and former White House stooge Gucker/Gannon than an objective NPR interviewer.
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Streep at her funniest
[Read the article: "Before they were nominees"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm absolutely with Anonymous on this. Maybe David Puner is too young to remember the oppressive cloud of grudging respect that hung over Meryl Streep around the time of Sophie's Choice -- how many perfect portrayals involving exotic accents could she churn out. However dark and depressing (and clunky, if you insist) Death Becomes Her might have been, it opened a lot of eyes to what a brilliant comedic actress Streep could be. And Rossellini and Hawn are no slouches here, either.
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In other words
[Read the article: In other words]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is Bush giving a speech or trying to recite "Adelaide's Lament"?
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While Tony's out
[Read the article: A meeting with the president]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dana Perino is showing herself to be truly in over her head in this job. And that's not really a bad thing for the American people, I think...
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Brevity
[Read the article: Response from ABC News re: the Saddam-anthrax reports]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Brevity is a virtue, Glenn. I admire your work, but your posts are too verbose. I think you would have more impact -- and more people would read you -- if you could figure out how to get your message across in fewer words.
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Who's on when
[Read the article: Goodbye to the Fix, for now]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What I miss most with The Fix gone is the listing of who is going to be on The Daily Show and Colbert, and whether they're running a new show or a rerun. I don't look at other gossip sites, and The Fix was pretty much my only link with what was happening in that world, but I can't say I'm not just as happy without that "information" now...
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"Wrong again, Mr. President."
[Read the article: It's not us against them; it's us against you]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]God, I love it when she talks tough like that. The next bill should address cutting off the funding for Blackwater and the shadow army of mercenaries. No concessions -- this is not the time to get mealy mouthed.
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Tony's back
[Read the article: Katrina and the Guard, revisited]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, it is grand that Tony Snow is feeling well enough to come back to work. Dana Perino simply could not be counted on to lie as reflexively and with the kind of conviction that Tony can muster without breaking a sweat.