Letters to the Editor
SB
Published Letters: 378 Editor's Choice: 18
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Seal Press??
[Read the article: Seal Press scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sorry, I am but a simple visual artist. I assume this is not about the Seal Jumbo 160M drymount Press (http://www.dickblick.com/zz231/01/) I've had for 25 years?
It is, rather, a publisher with an editorial staff of two people? There've got to be a bazillion small publishers out there, and someone's having a hissy fit because this one isn't doing what they want?
From this far outside the loop, this seems utterly childish. I plead ignorance.
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Pfizer.
[Read the article: Can you hide slutty eyes?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Instead of just posting a written version, TCF reads it on video and Pfizer pays Salon for renting our eyeballs. That's why; now I know.
First and last time I watch one of those videos. F'ing Salon.
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Wow.
[Read the article: The technology that will save humanity]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Guess the nutjob contingent didn't have much to do tonight.
Look guys (and I'm willing to bet you are guys), none of the posters here who are saying that having a lower human population would be a good thing are actually advocating pestilence, famine, war or genocide; OK? And neither am I.
Just having fewer kids! I happen to think that if we don't collectively go down that path, pestilence, famine, war and/or genocide will happen, because that's just how things work! I don't like it, nor do I want to die in any such way, but I do think it's possible. Maybe even likely. Personally, I plan on having no kids.
To recap:
More people, increasing the likelihood of various crises: bad
Fewer people by way of reduced birthrates - good!
Fewer people by way of pestilence, famine, war and/or genocide - tragically horrible!
Nobody wants to exterminate "the disabled, the gypsies and the teeming dark people". Nobody wants "mass graves and gas weapons", nor "Marburg, Ebola, Lassa, Hanta". Apocalypse? No!
Just HAVE FEWER CHILDREN! Got it? Now please calm down!
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The Joke...
[Read the article: The technology that will save humanity]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is about fusion!
All that solar energy comes from hydrogen being fused into helium, you know. About 3.6 ×10^38 protons (hydrogen nuclei) are converted into helium nuclei every second.
I admit I didn't get it right away....
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Holds you responsible, eh?
[Read the article: How safe are you from the Great Flood?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As well she should.
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Explanation?
[Read the article: The technology that will save humanity]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"it's dark outside more than half of the time, on average, and in many places on earth a lot more than half of the time."
How is it possible for it to be dark outside more than 50% of the time??
HALF of the planet is in sunlight at any given moment, right?
And we're still rotating and orbiting the sun, right?
Thus any point on the planet, over a year, is in darkness half the time, and illuminated half the time. And in reality, there are actually on average MORE than 12 hours of daylight thanks to our atmosphere (and also due to the fact that the sun is not a point source of light but looks like a disc from here) Thus on the equinox, at the equator, there's actually an extra 14 minutes of sun.
True, there are typically less than 12 hours of sunlight usable for solar power generation on an average day, but that happens to be when energy demand is lowest.
Anyway, I'm NOT going to rush to support an idea just because the DOD likes it.
Dark outside more than half the time? Really? Moron.
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Critics
[Read the article: Did Portishead kill trip hop?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Two Critics are in a boat on the sea of Galilee, and the boat is leaking badly.
Jesus sees the sinking boat from shore, and walks across the water to save the two. As the Lord approaches, one critic turns to the other and says: "Would you look at that, he can't even swim!"
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ERR ON THE SIDE OF CAUTION?!?!?
[Read the article: The bisphenol A blues]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]WHAT KIND OF WHACKNUT IDEA IS THAT??? Full speed ahead with the unplanned multi-variable (and highly profitable!) grand biochemical experiment!
Sheesh, you liberals. You're SO conservative.
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"You were the one screaming, kicking, and bugging everyone around you."
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No I wasn't. I flew rather a lot as a kid, and I was very well mannered if I do say so myself.
If your kids are such brats, you and they should get a special brat section where they can kick, scream at, and annoy the other brats and their parents. The kids who are capable of reading actual books for a couple of hours or playing portable board games that engage their brains or drawing or whatever can sit in the civilized section.
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Spotted in Berkeley...
[Read the article: "Forgetting Sarah Marshall"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A billboard altered to read:
"My Mom Always Hated You CAPITALISM!"
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5 kids??
[Read the article: My husband of 12 years suddenly says he never loved me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Next time, DON'T have five kids!!
TWO, max.
No wonder he's losing it.
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More seriously...
[Read the article: My husband of 12 years suddenly says he never loved me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He's probably having an affair (or wants to) and you'll probably have to get divorced.
Right now, he's probably in shock from having A FIFTH CHILD (gasp!) and will recover at least temporarily, but the problem remains.
Make sure the kids get the house (that's right!) and the two selfish, stupid adults have to schlep back and forth (from their tiny apartments) to the kids' house every week. The kids should have as much stability as possible.
Look, unless two or three of them somehow die of some horrible 19th century childhood disease, five kids is too many in the modern world. If two isn't enough to work the farm, hire some help.
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$600?
[Read the article: Is the American consumer finally giving up?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The gummint's gonna give me $600 back? And they think that's a big deal? Add another zero on there and we'll see.
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Family values...
[Read the article: Miley Cyrus: Daddy's little hurl]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Family values -- as defined by Walt Disney, the church, the Republican Party or anyone else -- do not include a father's ownership of his daughter's body or sexuality, or his treatment of her sexuality as his property or financial or personal resource."
Family values, as defined by any properly traditional conservative, most definitely DO include all of the above!
Ever heard of 'bride price' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_price)
or 'honor killing' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing)?
Haven't you been paying attention? It's the 21st century already. You should read up on this stuff.
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Dumbass..
[Read the article: I want more commitment from my married girlfriend]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Break up with her and find a therapist.
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"Junk"?
[Read the article: Hillary's "testicular fortitude"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Junk"? Really? That isn't nice. You take issue with someone suggesting that Hillary has man-parts, and then you go and call her woman-parts "junk". What's in a name, anyhow?