Letters to the Editor
melthough
Published Letters: 1343 Editor's Choice: 103
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I was not allowed to play D&D
[Read the article: Gary Gygax's final quest]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]because my mom bought the idea on the nightly news that it was Satanic. I am sure there is an alternate universe in which I am a girl hacker, but it's not this one. I am catching up quickly on the fantasy games, though, thanks to my husband and my six-year-old son. Thanks for the tribute - and the silly video!
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I don't have a crush on Obama,
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but I am considering one on Katha Pollitt....
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ShawnWM
[Read the article: Obama wins Vermont]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's get one thing straight. We Vermonters eat granola - with organic, fair trade nuts and unsulphured dried fruits. Only Republicans buy Froot Loops.
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Absolutely. Re-vote.
[Read the article: Should Florida and Michigan vote again? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There is no question in my mind that we need to find a fair way to make sure the voters in FL and MI have a say. The delegates cannot be seated under the current circumstances. I am an Obama voter - and as I see Clinton still in a close second, I start to dread the idea again that she will be the nominee. I have been dreading it for years, ever since the idea came up that she wanted to run for president. I think it would be a huge mistake - just like I thought Gore and Kerry were huge mistakes. I wasn't of voting age for Mondale or Dukakis, but my recollection is that those candidates were of the exact same stripe. Clinton represents the long-standing reason that I cannot bring myself to register as a Democrat or give money to the Party. But FL and MI should vote, despite my fears about what a Clinton candidacy would mean this year. I think it would mean four more years of hell.
I liked your analysis of how Clinton managed to pull through in Texas. Ohio and Rhode Island were givens, so Texas was the only place Obama could have driven a stake through her campaign's heart, and he didn't manage it. I think you are right that he failed to respond swifty and decisively to the NAFTA flap. I think it caught him off guard, and I think it was and should have been a non-issue, but he let commentators and the Clinton campaign get away with making it seem like there was inconsistency in his views. I don't agree with that spin, but one of the reasons I voted for him was that he was so good at handling the attacks - up until then. Now his reputation for integrity has been tainted - and while I think the Canadian conservative government was playing very, very dirty (that is, LYING), I don't really think he can blame anyone but himself that it blew up in his face the way it did. He had the chance to put the issue to bed early, and he didn't. Now, he will have to be up with it as with a colicky baby, long into the night of November. If he makes it that far. Pennsylvania is Clinton's home territory. We shall see.
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Where does the double standard come from?
[Read the article: The "Rezko" game]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The thing I don't get is that there have been plenty of scandals around the Bush administration - like the Plame incident - that cause eyes to glaze over. Republican war hawks have always been given a pass on the "draft-dodger" charges that Bill Clinton was hit with for years. Republican sex scandals - and there are many - have gone nowhere. Republican bribery scandals have not brought down the top of the pyramid. WHY? Is it that Democrats are too lawyerly and actually try to use real evidence to actually do something about these things, rather than just plant innuendo? Or is it that everyone knows Republicans are cynical, amoral and soulless and therefore expects this behavior from them, so it's all just Dog Bites Man?
I have never understood this.
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I think it's time for both candidates,
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]along with their nastiest supporters, to spend two weeks in the time-out chair. Or maybe we can do a Mrs. Piggle Wiggle and lock each candidate in a hotel room for a couple days with his or her whiniest and most annoying, brainless supporters - and no one else. After that, I'm guessing they would learn to behave themselves better. It would make great reality TV too! Everyone wins!
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kufir77, no.
[Read the article: Remember the Alamo-dildo!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The burden is on the people who wrote the laws to explain what good purpose they serve. Not the other way around. I'm not a sex toy user myself, and I am furthermore totally uninterested in how YOU get your jollies. That is at the heart of why I see no reason that others should not enjoy them - especially from a legal standpoint. Who do those laws protect?
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memo to grammar police
[Read the article: Remember the Alamo-dildo!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Should have said "whom."
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Admirable, but not specific
[Read the article: Michigan, Florida governors want delegates seated]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How do they propose giving those voters a voice? That has really been the crux of the issue all along. Personally, I think Obama should concede Florida as an act of good will and Michigan should re-vote. I would not argue with Florida re-voting, but I don't really think it is necessary, and as Slackie has argued elsewhere, it would make Obama look really good if he said so too. It also highlights that Michigan is quite a different situation and gives him a bargaining chip to request a re-vote there. If Clinton sincerely wants to re-enfranchise voters rather than just winning, she can't really refuse that offer.