Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 1264 Editor's Choice: 102
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Celebrity gossip
[Read the article: Clinton denies she said Obama can't win]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]has never appealed to me. I really don't care what Bill and Bill and Hil said to one another while munching pizza and watching a football game. Isn't there any *news* that ABC (and Salon) could be covering?
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War Room - no freakin' kidding
[Read the article: Vacation, all I ever wanted]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What a shambles it has become in here. Alex, you are a smart cookie and a good writer. I hope you are not letting the constant spew get to you. One can disagree with the column without getting nasty about it. If people can't phrase things tactfully, they don't deserve to be heard out. I can't WAIT for the Ignore feature!
I also can't wait to read whatever it is you're working on now. I do think your features are more fun to read, and probably more fun to write.
To the nasty critics: get a life already. Seriously. First of all, this is not investigative journalism. This is a blog. If you have a fundamental problem with what this blog does, you can stop reading it (preferable, IMHO), or can write to Alex let him know how to keep you as a reader instead of publicly and constantly bitching about the state of War Room. But that would probably remind you that there is a human being involved. What monsters you are. That's on the record, BTW.
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Swampdog is right
[Read the article: I'm a med student, but my boyfriend has just a high school education]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It has nothing to do with his education or what job he has: the problem is just that they are incompatible - or maybe just that she fears they are. And it's not incompatible like she sorts the laundry differently than he does. It is a very basic incompatibility: she is driven, ambitious and destined for workaholism, and he is not. Regardless of which character in this drama you resemble more, it is quite reasonable to question how well these people will get along in the longer term. You don't have to be a snob to realize that such a basic difference in values will affect their relationship.
LW, I am not in favor of letting a current boyfriend hang around while you're waiting/looking for Mr. Right. If he's not the right guy, you should break up with him. It sounds to me as though this relationship has already failed and you are afraid to admit it because you were supposed to be "graduating" to marriage according to some internal standard you have set for yourself. Take a step back. Stop treating the marriage/relationship thing like a credential you're earning, and then make a decision. Don't let him hang around until you find something better. That does neither of you any good. If you're looking to marry and you know you don't want to marry him, you need to tell him that now.
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It's about time
[Read the article: The Starbucks economy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Primates are creatures of necessity. We won't stop guzzling lattes OR oil until we have to. Honestly, in my darker hours, I am starting to think a full-out depression will be the only thing that will save the planet from Americans' execrable lifestyle choices in time.
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Remember when Clinton left office
[Read the article: Remember the Lieberman "hack attack"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and he and his staff totally trashed the White House, including vandalizing all the computers and stuff?
Yeah, it was all over the news. But THAT didn't happen either. Why am I getting the feeling that Lieberman's Republican sympathies go much deeper than his stance on the Middle East?
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"there's usually a major reason why men are single and available (unless widowed) in their 30s, and not really a good reason for why women are other than garden-variety backlash"
[Read the article: Coming to a theater near you: Dumb arguments]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow. Do you really believe that? How sad.
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The answer is obvious.
[Read the article: Examining the reaction to Clinton's hospital story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The hospital administrator has crossed the Commander-in-Chief threshold, whereas Senator Clinton ... has not.
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Seriously, though, I think it's irresponsible for the campaign to spread a tear-jerker story like this one without actually finding out the facts first. But I think this is a minor screw-up, on the order of the planted town-hall-meeting questioners, the campaign workers' spreading of the Obama-is-Muslim e-mail, and all the other minor screw-ups that have happened throughout the campaign. They become troublesome only in the aggregate ... and what an aggregate it is! Now it looks like regular voters are not the only people who have noticed. Good.
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I would like to give him the benefit of the doubt,
[Read the article: The problem with comparing Obama to Tiger Woods]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but if he didn't mean the obvious, then ... what DID he mean?
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What does he have to lose?
[Read the article: Bush's dumb move on trade]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All his credibility and political capital have already been spent in Iraq. He's just picking fights for fun at this point.
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Unless the visually impaired are slinking around down low at night
[Read the article: Beware the ninja Prius]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]like the numerous foxes and cats who did not hear my Prius coming and nearly got (BUT DID NOT GET) hit, I seriously doubt there is a problem here. I have certainly noticed that wild animals are expecting cars to be louder, but I don't even hit them, let alone pedestrians. [Full disclosure: I do live in pedestrian-aware Vermont, where the crosswalks and sidewalks totally suck (when they exist at all), but the drivers watch for pedestrians who are waiting to cross, and they STOP FOR THEM BEFORE THEY EVEN ENTER TRAFFIC! WOW! It's part of the culture. I am a pedestrian far more often than I am a Prius driver, so I know I'm not the only person who drives this way, and every time I leave Vermont and see how people drive in other states, I am thoroughly appalled.]
I'm all for protecting pedestrians, regardless of their impairments, from drivers. But making my Prius louder is a step in the WRONG direction. I don't think I've ever agreed with Electro Robot about anything before, but it is true that soon we'll all be driving electric cars, and there won't be engine noise even during acceleration. So let's try to get used to the new reality of non-combustion engines in a sensible way, instead of letting life continue to be full of unnecessary noise in addition to unnecessary hydrocarbons. The reality is, people not only need to stop driving so much, but also need to start driving differently when they do drive. Pedestrian-focused infrastructure would work WAY better than louder engines, and solve a lot more problems than this one (which, as has been established, isn't one).