Perhaps it is attitudes like yours that are causing "editorialized" content to lose audiences.

You know, you come across as condescending and overly simplistic. Big words bother you? that's how the downward spiral starts. Soon enough, because of editors that "know what's best for all of us", we will all communicate using only one or two syllable words that *everyone* can understand. Soon enough, we will all have to sacrifice nuance and variety for the sake of simplicity.

That's not the type of world where anyone grows... thank you but no, let me keep the old practice of actually using a dictionary if there is a word I cannot understand. Let me actually learn something from what I read, instead of having to see the world through the lens of the big brother practice of numbing content down to keep the masses entertained.

The level of my disgust can probably be measured by the fact that I've been reading Salon for 5+ years and only today did I register in order to post this letter.

Here is Ms. Klausner writing "At least when a Hare Krishna gives you a vegetarian cookbook in the airport, you know -- thanks to their flower-wielding characterizations in Zucker brothers movies -- that they are cultish wack jobs".

I thought I had misread and had to go back and re-read the whole sentence to realize that no, it wasn't me, she had just called an entire faith "cultish wack jobs". Now, I am not Hare Krishna, but I don't think I have to be one to see how this is wrong on so many levels.

I wonder if Salon would allow the same characterization to be published about any of the main faiths (Christianism, Judaism or Islam come to mind).

And of course, if Ms. Klausner gets her world view from Zucker bros. movies, who produced such gems as "Naked Gun", I think we know enough about her understanding.