Letters to the Editor
SB
Published Letters: 378 Editor's Choice: 18
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Cary's right
[Read the article: My boyfriend wants me to move, my daughter wants me to stay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not only should you NOT move, you should dump the self-centered dude. You do not really love him, he's just a narcissist; they're good at making people THINK they love them.
Neat Freak? Controlling? Occasionally gets mad? (everyone does, so I suspect that if it requires special mention, it isn't just garden-variety mad, it's the anger-mangement-problem mad that often goes along with controlling and neat freak.) YOU have to go see HIM? HE has needs? (ah, yes, a man has NEEDS after all...) A Serious Working Artist living in The Big City who's a Snob... good god, he sounds insufferable. There are very few Serious Artists who aren't insufferable snobs, IMHO.
I repeat: you do not really love him. You are enfatuated because he has charmed you. And if you are actually considering this seriously in any way, you'd better dig deeper into the question of how much you love your daughter, and yourself.
Let go of him.
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How can you tell when a Republican is lying?
[Read the article: "I've been led to believe that there's a good response for it"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]His lips are moving.
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I wonder
[Read the article: The road goes on for John and Elizabeth]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wonder how long it will take for Ann Coulter to say something cold, heartless and mean about Elizabeth Edwards....
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A simple plan
[Read the article: "I don't remember ... I wasn't involved ... I don't recall"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Get him to lie as much as possible, then nail his ass for it all. He seems to be going along with the plan.
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Sheesh...
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Look, I got NO sense that P.Smith was being ethnocentric or racist or whatever folks are implying by noting that there were TWO BLACK pilots flying the plane; I just thought that he was trying to point out the racism in the US that makes the odds of that happening here just about nil, and thus he's not personally used to seeing it occur before his own two eyes. Get it? It sounded to me like he met 2 pilots who displayed the level of professionalism one would hope for anywhere.
I suppose where he says "to find two black pilots in the cockpit at the same time is exceptionally rare." he should have added "in the U.S." in there to make it perfectly clear that's what he meant, but since it's in the middle of a paragraph about the scarcity of black pilots in the U.S. I think it's pretty obvious from the context.
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Uptick?
[Read the article: Salon's new letters registration policy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I assume that means "increase"? Joan, I suggest you read Orwell's 'Politics and the English language', and then have everyone who gets paid to write for Salon read it as well.
Also, go back to the previous font.
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Cuba?
[Read the article: More secret prisons?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There's a secret prison in Cuba? In the basement of Gitmo or something? What am I missing?
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Hijab?
[Read the article: To Damascus with Nancy Pelosi]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is that Arabic for 'scarf'? It looks like she has an ordinary silk scarf on her head, like my grandmother might have worn. It's the kind of thing women wear when visiting any oldschool place of worship, no?
Did some other commenters miss the bit about "she was preceded on the road to Damascus by Rep. Frank Wolf, a prominent Virginia Republican who led a GOP delegation to meet with Assad, and she was soon followed by Rep. Darrell Issa, a California Republican whose remarks after seeing the Syrian leader were sharply critical of the Bush White House."
Two other representatives were there before and after and that's OK but the SPEAKER of the House is somehow exercising too much authority by visiting?
I'll charitably assume that some of y'all completely missed the part about Issa and Wolf; and are overreacting to the scarf because you were traumatized by a scarf-wearing granny at a young age. I would suggest new spectacles in the former case and psychotherapy in the latter.
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The State Department writing bills for Congress?
[Read the article: To Damascus with Nancy Pelosi]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Absurd. Clearly someone did poorly in Civics class.
In our system of Government, new legislation is drafted by lobbyists. Everyone knows that!
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DIS-GUSTING!
[Read the article: To Damascus with Nancy Pelosi]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now I'M mad! According to an AP report, "Pelosi, the first woman speaker of the House, said she raised the issue of Saudi Arabia's lack of female politicians with Saudi government officials...."
Women should behave themselves when visiting places where women are second class citizens! The temerity! Doesn't she know her place?
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The OK Shepherd
[Read the article: "The Good Shepherd"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I liked it - maybe I just like WWII intrigue - but ultimately this movie isn't as good as it thinks it is. There's lots of heavy handed dialogue meant to teach us a lesson and Matt Damon staring blankly, but that's about it. Worth seeing, but not great.
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There are Fools,
[Read the article: Real inconvenient truths]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There are Damned Fools,
and then
There is Camille Paglia.
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2 things...
[Read the article: "It's like when 9/11 happened"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1. 'Markthomp' said it, Korean culture is amazingly xenophobic. They've long struck me as an angry, racist people. Now of course, individuals vary tremendously; that's just a stereotype, but it clearly didn't just come out of thin air.
2. So are we. If the U.S. of A. has somehow recently become so enlightened that a racist backlash isn't a possibility, it's news to me.
How many Hajjis died today, btw?
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Say what?
[Read the article: Wait, how did I miss Rush Limbaugh?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What? This item, and debonair73's wandering response is so very weird...
Am I hallucinating?
Rush says a crazed mass murderer must have been a liberal, but what he really meant was....
what?
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it was the Red Jihad!
[Read the article: Bay Area freeway meltdown: Where was al-Qaida?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obviously an Islamic Terrorist. After all, his name is MOSQUEda.
Or.... maybe that's just what the Russkies WANT us to think, DA?
They should have come up with a less obvious name than Mosque-Da!
Or.... maybe the Mohammedans want us to blame the Commies......
Those scheming A-rabs....!
No, no; wait, NOW I get it....
They're in it together!
I blame the Red Jihad! The al-QueGB! The new axis of Evil!
I haven't figured out why they didn't wait until May Day, must've been a scheduling conflict...
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I was just wondering...
[Read the article: Hurricane ethanol]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How long will it be until I can fill up on Organic biodiesel, ethanol, whatever?
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Bad Idea,
[Read the article: Extreme childbirth]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]plain and simple.
And, NOX - you and your wife are just plain WEIRD, and not in the good way.
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Bush hating Euros?
[Read the article: The end of empire: Wolfowitz on the ropes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't know how much the Euro hates Bush, but it doesn't seem too fond of the Dollar lately....
Seriously, why shouldn't they hate Bush? Is the exchange rate helping Europe's economy? Is the GWOT helping anyone but Halliburton, Blackwater, Big Oil and the like?
I'd really like to know -why would other governments not hate Bush?