Letters to the Editor
BryanS
Published Letters: 365 Editor's Choice: 1
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oh boy...
[Read the article: A note about War Room's reader comments]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, you know what they say. Arguing on the internet is like competing in the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded.
You've got a thankless task ahead of you, Alex. I wouldn't want to have to perpetually monitor the War Room's comments these days. And I'm one of the trolls who uses words like "retarded," for cryin' out loud.
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Zing!
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Boy, there's nothing funnier than a cranky old man taking potshots at something he doesn't know the first thing about.
Bloom County was sheer genius. Outland had its moments. As far as I can tell, Opus is Berke's attempt to single-handedly undermine his entire legacy as a cartoonist and prove that Bill Watterson and Gary Larson had the right idea: quit before you start to suck.
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Hi, anonymous Clinton campaign trolls!
[Read the article: NYC voting snafu may work in Obama's favor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If I understand this correctly, a whole bunch of votes -- which seem to be mostly for Obama -- were not counted in dozens of districts in Clinton's backyard...
...and your take on the story is that the Obama-loving media is trying to influence the primary election by pointing out the fact that there were true and legitimate issues with the voting? I'm sure that if this issue had shown up in the Chicago balloting, we'd have a slew of anonymous posters claiming that Obama rigged the election personally.
What you're trying to do here is exactly what James Baker and the Bush campaign succeeded in doing in Florida in 2000. You're utterly shameless, and a bunch of cowards to boot.
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@ timbuktom
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]After nearly three years of Guitar Hero being on the retail shelves, I've heard the "why don't you just get a real guitar" argument enough times to make me want to puke blood. Guitar Hero, like all video games, is an opportunity for those of us who will never be able to do a particular thing to live out the fantasy of being able to do it.
I spent about five years (and a lot more money than I've ever spent on GH) trying to learn how to play guitar well enough to perform live. The only thing I learned is that, no matter how many hours I practiced or lessons I signed up for, I was just never going to be able to make my fingers move fast enough. I might as well have been wearing mittens. Maybe playing a "real guitar" is "vastly more fun," but saying that to me is like telling a kid with a club foot how awesome it feels to run a marathon.
We all participate in delusions that help to satisfy otherwise insatiable needs and desires. For some of us, that means getting a bunch of friends together and pretending to be rock gods in somebody's living room. For others, it means getting a bunch of friends together and pretending to talk to their invisible dad at church.
Either way, y'know, judge not.
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Desperation recognized for what it was
[Read the article: Calls come in for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]According to exit poll data, Obama won among voters who decided in the last week by 16 points. Guess that whole manufactured controversy about Obama's "plagiarism" sorta backfired.
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It doesn't really count
[Read the article: Obama wins Hawaii]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Everybody knows that the only states that really matter are primary states where all of the voters are 65-year old white women who come from union households. Letting a whole bunch of dark folks and hippies get together and talk about what they want in a leader will be the death of this country.
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Who *wouldn't* want a picture with this guy?
[Read the article: A gay-marriage anniversary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How utterly shocking that Barack Obama wouldn't want to be photographed next to an admitted drunk who screwed around with his best friend's wife. Newsom's like the worst parts of our last two presidents put together. Let's not even get into the fact that he threw John Kerry and gay marriage advocates under a bus by going on a gay wedding spree that was primarily designed to boost his own sagging poll numbers.
What a dick.
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Ugh
[Read the article: NYT breaks long-rumored story on possible relationship between McCain, lobbyist]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm an Obama supporter, but I really wish that the romantic angle could have been left out of this story altogether. The potential conflict of interest is bad enough, without having to drag yet another politician's sordid sex life out into the floodlights once again.