Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 423 Editor's Choice: 19
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Weird...
[Read the article: To grandmother Pelosi's house we go]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]DJD is just plain weird. And scary. She's been too angry for too long, and it's warping her. Sure there's lots one should be angry about, but if you can't let go of it and move forward, it messes with your head.
"For once, I'll choose my words carefully and just say that Clyburn's squeamishness strikes me as … overwrought. And wrong. Clyburn doesn't seem to understand what it would have meant to grab that whip from Blunt. What could be a more official, public, international castration than the Man having to voluntarily hand his pecker to a brother in ignominious defeat? Doesn't Clyburn know whom he's going to be whipping? The Man, that's who! Personally, I'd love to have 10 minutes with that cowhide and my neatly alphabetized list."
Maybe Clyburn does understand what it would have meant to grab that whip from Blunt. Maybe he's just trying to be civil. Maybe instead of getting mad, he wants to get even. Not necessarily 'revenge' even, just even.
It's just that in every article I read by DJD, I'm taken aback by her rage; rage nearly always directed at men - "official, public, international castration" - !!! It's the kind of rage that eats people alive. Her previous articles are filled with deep digs at at men and boys. I worry for her son. Children tend to internalize things, and "mommy loves me, but she hates men, and I'm a young man..." is a hell of a thing to have to work out. My feeling is that if you don't work out your demons before having children, they'll probably get stuck with them. The viciousness in that one 'carefully worded' paragraph says a lot.
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Religious Fascist
[Read the article: The unkindest cut]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Treifalicious, you're a fascist religious fanatic. Feel better now that someone's persecuted you a little?
Maybe you're not a fascist, but a religious fanatic, perhaps. Religious tradition is just plain stupid a lot of the time, and the bible is no more worthy of being the basis of a religion than Lord of the Rings. Time to deal with the problems of the 21st century. The problems of 50 to 60 centuries ago are just not that relevant, and continuing to solve those problems now is kinda dumb. It is now possible to WASH the foreskin, indeed the entire body(!) every day with soap and clean running water in most of the western world. Religion quickly becomes dangerous when tradition is accepted without thinking.
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Burritos...
[Read the article: Do kids make you fat?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Can someone remind me what's wrong with burritos? I make them with a tortilla, rice, beans, lettuce, salsa, a little hot sauce, and a little cheese. Maybe you could add some grilled peppers and whatnot. I guess if you use lardy refried beans and the burrito is half sour cream and cheese you'd have a problem; is that the problem? I always thought it was pretty easy to make a rather healthy burrito.
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Supplies
[Read the article: Who's to blame for James Kim's death?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe there were so many letters that I missed the one that says this explicitly, but it bears repeating anyway.
I would hope that anyone who lives in San Francisco (or anywhere else in earthquake country) would keep a very good stash of emergency supplies in their car at all times; the city recommends 72 hours' worth but I prefer more like a week's worth. And since you never know how cold it might get in SF (in the 20's tonight, supposedly) that stash will hopefully include good blankets and maybe a campstove. And, all that good boyscout stuff (windup flashlight/radio, 1st aid kit, SA knife, etc.) AND, keep your gas tank full.
All you Salon readers in the Bay Area are going to check on that this weekend, aren't you?
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They must reconnect the war in Iraq to the broader war on terror....
[Read the article: The GOP hides from Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What if people realize that until they STARTED the war in Iraq, Iraq wasn't part of the "Terror" problem? Do the Republicans really want people to notice how they threw gas on the fire?
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Fake Letter!
[Read the article: My lover and I have a secret house]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]St. F'uad, I deem thy letter false.
Thou art no longer a Saint.
Seriously, are you the same person who always writes in about Tom Tomorrow "phoning it in"?
The situation sounds entirely plasuible, if unlikely. Some folks should get out more and see how odd the human condition can be. Ever heard the expression 'truth is stranger than fiction?
Anyway... tell the kid, she'll get over it. Tell the ex husband so he can get to work lowering his alimony payments. Poor guy. You have a daughter, a lover, and two homes... what's he got? Emotional scar tissue would be my guess.
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Oh the Stupidity!
[Read the article: Fruit and fiber?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"But exactly how much is 30 grams? It certainly seems like a lot."
- that's slightly more than AN OUNCE, fool.
"I always remember how the myth that a high-fiber diet would help reduce the risk of colon cancer was dispelled by a series of long-term studies."
A. As others have pointed out, high fiber intake has tremendous advantages when it comes to taking a dump. And you can achieve this high fiber intake by eating lots of vegetables rather than sawdust. If you don't like vegetables, lord help you.
B. Also as others have pointed out, it's the factor of reduced consuption of animal products that comes along with the higher fiber (ie, more vegetables) diet that really does you good.
Broadsheet has now officially become the village idiot of Salon.