Letters to the Editor
namegoeshere
Published Letters: 78 Editor's Choice: 3
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Video posts
[Read the article: Ari Watch, continued]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As someone who reads Salon at work and is bound by a no-streaming-content/video/high bandwidth usage agreement, replacing a blog post with a video will make it difficult to consume information during the day. For instance, I read your post here, and when I go home tonight, I'll watch the accompanying video. Sometimes, I don't feel the need to watch the accompanying video; the video is often redundant when one has already read the post. It seems like you're coming at it with the converse attitude, i.e. the video is relevant, whereas the words are the redundancy. Though I'm all for experimentation, video-only posts are best left in Video Dog - isn't that what the abomination is for, after all? As supplements, they're fine, go ahead, post away. But if you want to start a vlog, start a vlog, and leave the words alone. I'd rather read than watch, even if there were no usage regulations.
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What the hell?
[Read the article: Barack Obama's Republican edge]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This kind of speculative, baiting article is one of the reasons I generally avoid the MSM. Why is it happening here in Salon, with Michael Scherer as the writer, no less (who, it must be said, is typically enjoyable)?
Even he admits, "Any political expert will tell you that polls don't mean much five months before the first caucus." The word "may" in the next sentence just reinforces this point.
What's going on here, guys? Throwing chum to the trolls again?
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"I was surprised to find that black people are... people!"
[Read the article: Bill O'Reilly explains the African-American]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, I know it makes your brain hurt when you have to take big intellectual leaps like that, Bill, but hang in there.
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"Unsavory"?
[Read the article: Verizon: Abortion rights potentially "unsavory"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And all those cell phone wallpapers of semi-nude women doused with soapy water and wearing bikinis are good, wholesome all-American fun?
Oh, right, we're only supposed to objectify women. Silly me.
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Semi-off-topic
[Read the article: Autism debate, Take 5,832]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jenny McCarthy now claims her kid's been cured of autism after changing diet and receiving anti-fungal treatments:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=7&entry_id=20672
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I completed a religious studies minor at university.
[Read the article: Naughty nuns excommunicated]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The reason it's so threatening to have Mary-worshippers in the Catholic Church is because they characterize Mary as having the same attributes as God, thereby threatening the monotheistic doctrine of the Bible. It's actually very simple - they've been excommunicated because they've become essentially polytheistic. Though on the surface, it might look like sexism on the part of the Church, this time it isn't about gender, it's about dogma.
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Proofreading
[Read the article: Rudy, Mitt, Fred or John]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hey Salon,
Looks like you need a new proofreader. Hell, I'll do it:
Put another way, a mid-September Pew Research Center poll found that only 27 percentage of American voters claimed they were giving "a lot" of thought to the presidential race.
But more telling were the three New Hampshire voters in the booth with Giuliani and Nathan: the candidate's state coordinator, and the dinner owner and his son.
(You don't allow strikethrough, so I used bold.)
Call me if you need a freelancer.
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How nice.
[Read the article: Nine Inch Nails declare freedom from record labels]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now he'll have time to make a pretentious movie based on his last pretentious album. Oh, wait, he's already doing that:
http://www.cinematical.com/2007/03/07/trent-reznor-in-talks-for-year-zero-movie/
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Why did you write to Cary?
[Read the article: Apparently I'm a bisexual mom]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If the LW had written to Dan Savage, he would have given her some normal, rational, sane advice: talk to your damn husband. If you're not satisfied by him sexually, that's because you're not communicating your needs to him. If you don't give him the opportunity to right his wrongs, then you don't have any license to go outside the marriage to fulfill yourself sexually. Communicate. Perhaps see the therapist that Cary recommends, but I suspect all they'll tell you is that you need to talk to your husband openly and honestly about not only your boredom with your current sex life, but also your unresolved bisexual feelings (which, IMHO, are symptomatic of being sexually unsatisfied, but that's neither here nor there).
Honesty's hard. Good luck.
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So the male staff of Page Six are all rapists-in-waiting?
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for clearing that up, Dick Johnson.
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Vajayjay
[Read the article: Feminists want "vagina" all to themselves?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is an infantile, demeaning word. The fact that we're even entertaining it as a warm & fuzzy (ugh) alternative is just juvenile. Grow up, Smerconish. And Oprah? You too.
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@ The Man Called Semtex:
[Read the article: Crazy for Jay-Z]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I love dubstep.
Although, I'm probably not the average reader either. It's good to know there's another one out there, regardless.
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Issues-based thinking
[Read the article: Biden calls himself "the odd man out" among '08 Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The problem here is the way we frame our debates about national policies. Because we're so trained to think about "the issues" in isolation, we don't have any sense of the interdependence of our nation's policies and actions. It's not just diplomacy or foreign relations, it's also the way we think of prison reform and education as being separate concerns, or health care and poverty, or human rights and the economic status of a nation, or domestic infrastructure and national security.
Biden seems to understand that there is mutual dependence, and nuance, in the world when it comes to foreign policy issues. But will such insight come to bear on our desperately needed domestic reforms if he wins the office of president? Perhaps Salon should ask that question for me.