Letters to the Editor
prytania
Published Letters: 84 Editor's Choice: 5
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Snarf!
[Read the article: Away in an awesome manger]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Way to go, Person!!
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See you there, "anon"
[Read the article: Away in an awesome manger]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Meet and Greet" okay?
I assume that you are not taking the bait to literalize a cipher?
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I am writing an article for "Salon." It will get EXACTLY the same responses as this article. Ready?
[Read the article: The accidental heretic]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Title: "Religion"
Text:
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However, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Furthermore, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Please pay me a thousand dollars.
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Good article
[Read the article: What ever happened to Britpop?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is the kind of piece that once led me to pay for a subscription to Salon. It is smart--yes, it does have (omigod) a thesis--and well-written for a general audience. Even though Reynolds has it in him to plop right into jargon (a word like POHMer would have alienated 99.9% of his audience), he writes for smart people who have enough interest in the arts to give his piece a click. Salon used to treat movies and tv this way, too, before it learned the Power of Snark.
I do not pay for the political blogging and religion/anti-religion baiting that has, it seems, become the signature of today's Salon. One I can get better on more established blogs, and the other serves mainly to attract rage junkies.
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raymundohpl (and others who say we shouldn't elect more religious people)
[Read the article: Romney and Huckabee's religious intolerance ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Whom can you recommend? What atheist would best fit the bill for President?
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I was snarking.
[Read the article: Just follow the map ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't. Do not snark. No matter how loudly some little voice tells you to, don't give in to cheap sarcasm. Today's reflexive snarker is tomorrow's sentimentalist.
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Agreed about the SC-bashing
[Read the article: One part old-time religion, one part chutzpah]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The stupidity of some Salon readers is breathtaking. The moderates and even the liberals of SC (and other regions that get reflexively looked down on) recoil when we are made the punchlines of moron city-slickers' cliched "jokes."
U pluribus unum, y'all.
One thing, though: Don't blame all of the negativity in contemporary American politics on Rove. The Bushies' earlier (and better, in an evil way) ratfucking "genius" cut his political teeth working for that "former governor" whose son is Mike Campbell. Take a look at how Carroll Campbell's campaign against Max Heller for the Fourth District Congressional Seat led to push polling as we know and love it today--and see what name first came to prominence when he suggested that particular poll.
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Wrong, Anonymous
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just glancing at Goodceleryexclamationmark's 319 letters (!!), I'd say that he or she is more likely a plagiarist, a too-rational sucker for Be-Bop's sub-Joycean affectations who has too much self-respect to commit to Be-Bop's nonlinearities well enough to do the job exactly right.
Regarding Salon's refusal to police these pages for off-topic comments and rage-spewing drivel: Haven't you noticed that the Opus letters page has turned into the local VFW on just about any Saturday night, full of cranky veterans who hanker for the old days when their dicks were hard, their bowels were functional, and penguins knew their place?
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May I use this as a classroom example of irony?
[Read the article: Blood-and-guts politics]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Paglia is a tired old broad. Ad hominem arguments are the mark of lazy thinker."
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We were all virgins once
[Read the article: Blood-and-guts politics]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"This is the first article I've ever read in Salon that was shallow and borderline stupid."
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Your English teachers served you poorly: set that canard next to "no prepositions at the ends of sentences" and "no split infinitives"
[Read the article: Out of great suffering comes beauty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"[M]y English teachers always told me never to start a sentence, much less a paragraph with a conjunction[.]"
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Anonymous
[Read the article: Out of great suffering comes beauty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1. What did I ever do to deserve the ill treatment? For heaven's sake.
2. Lick me.
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Roethke does not write "nice poems," Mike
[Read the article: Out of great suffering comes beauty]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Used to be, poetry was essential, even to laid-off workers.
W.C. Williams:
It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.
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Pretty good!
[Read the article: America closes the book on intelligence]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]An article about anti-intellectualism gets fourteen whole pages of letters discussing anti-intellectualism before it turns into God.What God?My God.Whose God?Our God.NO God banalities.
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"Peanuts is a sad shadow of a once great cartoon."
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Umm--who feels like breaking the bad news to Moira Kelly?
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Didn't South Park do this topic a few months ago?
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And do it much better (which is NOT necessarily true of every subject South Park treats).
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Somebody check Garry's pulse
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He just doesn't seem to be trying this week.
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Asking for complete attribution in speeches is absurd. Further, I don't think it was implied that Obama claimed ownership of that portion of the speech. Does anyone disagree?
[Read the article: The "plagiarism" problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, yeah. I am an Obama voter and a college professor, and I see how I might get in a jam the next time I bust a kid for doing exactly what Obama did.
In speeches, of course you do not cite sources. But you can give a little shout-out: "As my friend Hillary Clinton once said, 'Bill, put down that cigar.'"
Anything not cited does, in fact, imply ownership.
The aforementioned does not change my voting preferences even a little (Would that Edwards was still around!), but, yes, there are academic standards at work here among this gaggle of law profs.