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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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Published Letters: 78 Editor's Choice: 5
...minus the overused "poetic."
Yet another example of VD's cutting-edge mediocrity.
Call in the kitties! Call in the kitties!
...to God, Joan.
Can't you just show Farhad the door?
It's hard to overstate how disgusted I am with Salon. What promised to be an alternative to the status quo media has become just another advertising-delivery method to a relatively-well-educated, relatively-weathy demographic.
I want to throw-up.
There's something off about this one--there is, surely, more to the story.
And there's the odd 401(k) reference, the cheatin' hubby (who cares whether he cheated with boys or girls?), the generally mediocre use of language.
Maybe the LW's family is essentially correct. This is an unreliable narrator who believes she's being persecuted for...success? Certainly the first hubby was no achievement. Completing law school is a questionable achievement. Actually practicing law is morally repellent, with a few exceptions.
It's all reminiscent of that gratingly wonderful character that Tracy Ullman did years ago--Sidney the lawyer?
Sid--is this you?
Sidney nails it again.
Cary's nailed this one. Seven-year-itch it may be, which means it may also be an opportunity for divorce.
Who would willingly--even enthusiastically--abandon a spouse for two years without ensuring that the spouse was in agreement? Only an unhappy partner.
LW, your gut reaction is right. There's more going on than a burning desire to purify water in central Africa.
It was kinda funny for about 30 seconds.
Note to Videomakers: Get convincing voices (if "stentorian" leaves you clueless, go with "deep") next time around, and, for godsake, EQ the chopper SFX with a roll-offs below 500 and above 1800 hz and watch the g-d gain.
Sigh.
My first reaction was to echo the prevailing underwhelmed response.
Now, Sean, I've read your comment as well, which was as tediously unfunny as your video. (And on the slim chance that your faux-touching tale is true, shame on you for exploiting your grandfather to weasel your way out of obvious technical incompetence.)
Viewers will forgive about anything but boredom.
Zzzz.
Thank god. Pieces like this (and anything written by Blumenthal) make it marginally possible to slog through Video Dog and the other fluff, hoping against hope to find more of them.
This gluten-free cake has "flame-war" decorated all over it in sugar-free icing. I give it two days before the letters hit 75.
Vegans, look in the mirror. Not only are you not heathier than we carnivores, you look like you're two bean sprouts short of a pulse.
I love soy and carrots and most everything else that theoretically doesn't scream when you kill it, but there's pure joy in chomping down on ribs fresh off the grill.
Mmm. Ribbbbs...
LW--you're a narcissist. Look it up. Cure it now. Or you'll be a divorced, bitter, looney old coot living on cat food before you know it.
Check out the Bowen link that Cary provided, particularly the concluding societal theory. Interesting stuff. And tends to reduce the likelihood of the knee-jerk response evinced by the first letter-writer here.
Weird. "Follow your bliss" one day, "tough it out" the next.
At the moment I am also in SE Asia. At one time I thought I wanted to stay here for good, but as bird-flu and suicide bombers and American arrogance have conspired to make this option less attractive, I'm moving on. Tall white guys in a sea of short brown are too tempting a target. Most expats who are still here obviously disagree, though I do my best to avoid other westerners and always have.
Yet there are those, like you, Ms. Letter Writer, who enjoy the company of fellow expats. Of course you can bail the hell out of suburban stagnation and return to Jogya or Cebu or Seoul or wherever. No, the exact same group of people may not be there when you arrive, but that's not the key. The key is that you are fish out of water in suburban USA yet swim like a dolphin where you lived before.
Go back. Choose another city in the same country, maybe, but go back and continue moving forward with your life. The alternative is to flap around gasping until you asphyxiate from despair.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
