Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 19 Editor's Choice: 1
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Great Column by Cary Tennis
[Read the article: Once the kids are gone, I don't want them coming back]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Excellent advice to the man who wants his daughter not to move back home once she leaves. Great job.
Walter Crockett
Worcester, Mass.
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I'm the academic wife
[Read the article: I'm the academic wife, jealous and insecure]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cary, this is one of your finest responses. Excellent.
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honesty maybe?
[Read the article: The Gavin Newsom sex scandal: Why did his lover tell?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The big book is not relevant. The woman did the right thing in confessing to her husband. She did not deserve his trust any longer and she owed it to him to tell him so. If my wife betrays me, I want to know, painful though it may be. What's the point in believing things that are not true?
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The seeing other people thing
[Read the article: My boyfriend wants me to move, my daughter wants me to stay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When people say they want to start seeing people, it's quite likely they already have.
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three points
[Read the article: A pit bull killed her dog and now she's lost to me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1. You found true love two months before her accident. Perhaps your friend has some trouble handling this love in the light of, or despite, her misfortune.
2. Perhaps Cary's apparently over-the-top reply, which focused on his own travails, was meant to provide an example of trials people had to wait out.
3. I agree with those who say it's time to screen the letters to this column. There's a coterie of writers whose sole interest is to demean and insult Cary regardless of what he writes. Each column is an opportunity for them not to contribute to the discussion of the problem at hand, but to try to destroy the guy. That's sick, and they ought to be bounced.
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great idea
[Read the article: Salon's new letters registration policy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This should at least limit the vile output of the anonymous jerks who live to destroy Salon's writers. About time.
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Joan is right again
[Read the article: Kos gets a pass this week]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well done, Joan. The gloved fist. I think you are right to pursue this point. And I think so not because I have a daughter and a wife, and not just because life is much more interesting for a man when the women around him are respected and fulfilled, but because, duh, it's the right thing to do.
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Greenwald blog is not fully accessible
[Read the article: Attacks on civilians, torture and lawless detentions]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am a devoted reader of Glenn Greenwald. In the last week you've started using screen shots of documents as graphic images within the blog. Today there are two. You may well have blind and visually handicapped readers among your audience. They cannot read the contents of these bitmaps.
To make them accessible you need to either:
A. Recreate the content as text, instead of using bitmaps.
B. Provide a detailed description of them in the alt text attribute of the image when you add it to the web page. This is not hard, but some of the graphics have an awful lot of text.
Yours,
Walter Crockett
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Make room for Tim Russert
[Read the article: Tucker, Jonah, Elizabeth and Jillian]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn, I hope you will take a look at the implications of Tim Russert's recent pronouncements on Congress, which seem to contain implicit calls for an authoritarian solution. Yesterday, when the immigration bill went down again, he ominously declared that the failure to reach agreement on immigration is another sign that Congress is completely paralyzed, and that the American people are upset about this.
The system doesn't work anymore, Russert is saying. What kind of system would avoid such "paralysis," one might ask? What is he really suggesting? I think he's suggesting, without even knowing it, that America would be better off under a strong leader who was unfettered by democratic concerns. And I think there are a lot of pseudo-moderates moving in this direction.
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Excellent strip
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Best take-down of Thompson ever.
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Glenn, please make your posts accessible
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt defends the administration's mild, restrained secrecy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Another great post Glenn, but could you stop clipping text and displaying it as graphics without creating alt text for blind readers? I have a daughter in college to whom I like to send your links. But she is legally blind, and when she comes across one of your text clips, her screen reader won't read it. Screen readers cannot read graphic images, that's why the alt text attribute was invented. All you have to do is enter descriptive text in the alt text attribute when you add the graphic.
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what's going on?
[Read the article: Lately I've been kissing women I'm not married to]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The oldest story in history. Cary nailed it. Listen to him.
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This is a great article.
[Read the article: Hit her, baby, one more time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Excellent work.
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Women vs. men in predator count
[Read the article: Pam Spaulding for Glenn Greenwald: Straight sex-predator teachers, ENDA and paranoid fundamentalists]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I believe the news story on this stated that only one in 10 of the teacher "predators" were women. However, newspapers across the country (and AOL online) invariably illustrated it with photos of women teachers. What does that tell you?
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You bring your own weather with you
[Read the article: We moved, and now my husband is miserable]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Moving back won't change a thing for him. He needs to take his life in his own hands, hard though that may be. I agree with Cary's recommendation of a therapist, though I don't see your husband going to one. He's committed to his same old shell, and that gets less and less comfortable as time goes by. If you think it's bad now, wait till he's in his 50s. People can change, and he needs to. If he does, then you can talk about moving. If he doesn't ... you can't go home again.