Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 28 Editor's Choice: 1
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Sssh, I'm trying to watch the game!
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm a Bay Area resident. I root for the Giants, I root for the A's. I used to go sit in the dead center field bleachers at the Coliseum just to watch Jose Canseco wind up and uncork one of those Mighty Casey swings of his, and saw several monster blasts land around me over the years. I just loved watching Canseco at the plate. I didn't care if he struck out - it was still a gas. Of course he was on the juice. Who didn't know that? But was there anybody else like Jose? No. Is there anybody else like Barry? No. Even the Chron writers say he stopped using the stuff a few years ago, and his 2004 season was as good as anybody ever had. And if he does well again this season? Maybe it's just because he's Barry - on the juice or off, the guy is unique and this is our only chance to see it. These guys are all something special, if you like your sports. Taking greenies or booze or coke or 'roids or anything else does not make just anybody a Barry or a Jose.
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as if
[Read the article: "You poke it, you own it"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]as homophobia is also known as 'homosexual anxiety', the poke-it-own-it category of "man-laws" is also known as 'you wish'
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loving is doing, not telling
[Read the article: Is parenthood boring?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]telling your kids you love them, is not loving them. loving is doing. if you love your kids, you do things with your kids. if that's boring sometimes, big deal. how much bloody excitement do you need?
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obviously a moron
[Read the article: Breast-feeding: Bad for marriages?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the problem with idiots in positions of authority is that people listen to them. this guy needs a cave to go hide in.
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laugher ... comeback
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]then there's this from John Ryan in today's San Jose Mercury News:
In a playoff game last month in Southern California, Bloomington led La Quinta by a touchdown with 1:36 to play and had the ball at the La Quinta 3-yard line. Taking a knee would have ended the game, but Don Markham -- the 67-year-old coaching legend who has ruffled some feathers for running up the score -- let his team score with 40 seconds left. Bloomington missed the extra point but led 30-17.
Then La Quinta scored a touchdown with six seconds left, recovered the onside kick with two seconds left, and threw a 48-yard touchdown pass as time expired. Markham said, ``They just won, didn't they?'' Yep, as soon as La Quinta kicked the extra point.
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PP?
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is Portland out of the running?
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old and new
[Read the article: Going mobile]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]internet phones are great - the better they, the better for everyone. apple's phone will push innovation all around. but i will never spend that much money for a phone, and if i wanted an ipod, i'd get an ipod. and much of this is nothing new: multitasking internet phone? t-mobile sidekick has been doing that for years. typing emails or instant messages on a tiny touchscreen keypad? hope you washed your hands. at least they're not trying to sell us handwriting or voice recognition with this over-priced, over-hyped, changing-the-world-one-high-end-gadget-at-a-time-type thing. something really new can't happen every macworld.
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short-sighted hypocrites
[Read the article: How the left caused 9/11, by Dinesh D'Souza]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]how often conservatives who whine about "liberal values" turn out to go see "those movies", watch "those videos", listen to "that music", buy "those products" et cetera.
and the fact is that the entire western world has been going through something called "the enlightenment" for generations now - and it's too bad if the rest of the world has to struggle with it too, little simple things like treating all people like people, including women, and overcoming stupid crap like ethnicity and ignorance and dogma. too bad those backwards, reactionary people will be backwards and reactionary, whether in america or in the middle east or anywhere else. the world may still be progressing towards a semblance of intelligence but it sure is taking a long time - hundreds if not thousands of years.
to look only at the most recent generation and only at america in the absence of any historical context is just so typical of these short-sighted hypocrite conservatives.
history is alive. it's all one piece. wake up and smell the future
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But could he be The First Not-Really-Black President?
[Read the article: Colorblind]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A couple of weeks ago there was a controversy when one of the right-wing talking heads referred to Obama as a "Halfrican" - now from the other side, salon.com joins in with this article. So I guess there is no chance at all he could be The First Black President, since he isn't even black.
How confusing. His middle name is Hussein but he isn't even a Muslim, or is he? He's tall and lanky and a lawyer from Illinois, but he isn't actually the reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln, or is he? His ears stick out so he may be an elf, but is he?
I guess he will only be considered "black" once some sportscaster refers to him as "athletic" rather than "smart"! Already we've heard the "my, but he speaks well" bit.
This just in. Obama's wife is really black. But what about their kids? Goodness gracious, what's a voter to think?
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congratulations
[Read the article: My daily bread]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you are now the 2 billionth person to join the club! please tell everyone! christianity, just like islam, is nothing without pestering and threatening everybody else to join the club.
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RE: America's War
[Read the article: What Hillary Clinton should have known]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have to agree with "Doctor" Buckley. Everyone knew what Bush was going to do about Iraq, and almost all of the senators were political cowards about it. That was their "mistake".
But, come on doctor, and I'm assuming you have a Ph. D., and not that you're a podiatrist or even a brain surgeon. Just because you went to school longer than other people does not mean that you're smarter than everyone else. There's no need to "dumb it down", or even to "smart it up". To quote the late great Richard Feynman, "what do you care what other people think?"
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Prohibition Doesn't Work
[Read the article: Repeal the Second Amendment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Even in a Pollyanna world, some people would still do bad things. I'm all for restricting gun ownership, but this guy could just as esaily have plowed a car into a crowd. Your proposed solution would not solve this problem.