Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 54 Editor's Choice: 1
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Almost a BBC Style Interview
[Read the article: Clinton's surprising appearance on "Countdown"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Brits have developed a style of interviewing which manages to challenge the interviewees and try to bump them off their talking points without being partisan attacks. Olbermann almost achieved this balance. It was one of the best interviews I've seen. The only flaw was that he allowed Hillary Clinton to give long answers without challenging her when she began to slip into stump speech talking points.
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A Bad, Bad, Bad Idea
[Read the article: Obama is wrong about the gas tax]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This will give about $0.30 a day "relief" to people who drive. However, this is at the cost of delaying a lot of road repairs which mean construction workers will have less work and less money to spend.
Plus, the increased demand due to the lower price just drives up prices (oh good, because those oil companies sure are hurting).
This is terrible policy.
We should be RAISING taxes, slowly but inexorably, in order to let the marketplace ween people from their addiction to driving. Better for our countries security (no more oil war), environment (less automobile pollution), and mental health (less road rage).
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What? Conservatives see bias?
[Read the article: Conservatives see bias in McClellan coverage]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What a shocker!! Conservatives see a "liberal bias" in a story that makes conservatives look bad?!? A stunner, that.
It's only happened approximately a million times since Agnew yammered about "nattering nabobs."
Come on salon. It's S.O.P. Anything that reflects poorly on right-wingers must (of course!!) be "liberal bias." Oldest trick in their very old book.
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Ready From Day One?
[Read the article: A new low in Clinton bashing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Joan, no one (or virtually no one) thinks her remark about Robert Kennedy's assassination was anything other than an unfortunate reference.
But it does prove she's gaffe-prone, and is not as ready to lead as she claims.
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Ricky Martin?!?!
[Read the article: Livin' La Vida Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]OK, so she's locked up the closeted-Hispanic former-boy-singer vote. Big whoop.
Why is this news?
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To KateTex
[Read the article: Livin' La Vida Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I watched your video. So what? Don't people (with whom you disagree) have a right to free speech?
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Grammar Police
[Read the article: "Sex and the City"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nice article, but...
The use of "whom" is incorrect in the phrase "whom we now know is named John." It should have been "who." The basic rule: if you could substitute "he" then it's "who"; if you could substitute "him" then it's "whom."
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OK, But What About the Rest of Us?
[Read the article: Summer reads]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]These seem good beach reads for 20-something ladies. Now how about something for us middle-aged gay readers?
What's good this year for us? Is there a "Call Me By Your Name" or a "The Master" out there for us?
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Anybody Listen to Stephanie Miller?
[Read the article: Why not let Clinton keep the four Michigan delegates?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is really "Kyle-esque"
"You have no idea what you've done. The fury you have unleashed. Your arrogance is topped only by your ignorance and the sheer stupidity of this 'compromise,' which sends a message that you just don't get it. Oh, and by the way, you've also likely just thrown the 2008 election ..."
I guess you just have to hear her...
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Too Many Books
[Read the article: Would you like some books with that tote bag?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The problem with the publishing industry is that there are more titles being published than ever before, and there are fewer book readers (per capita) than ever before. So the big published are all chasing after the elusive 10 or so titles a year that sell hundreds of thousands of copies... The Book Expo (assuming it's similar to the one in DC a few years back) reflects this. Publishers are looking for the next big hit... literature is just an afterthought.
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Sexisdt Attacks on Hillary?
[Read the article: The other 18 million]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think the whiff of entitlement that is apparen5t in the article is deplorable.
Look, an "older woman" (Speaker Pelosi) is third in line for the Presidency right now, and probably will be so after the election. Obviously, the system isn't as sexist as you portray.
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Washington's Museum of Buildings??
[Read the article: Hillary's final curtain ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think you meant the "National Building Museum" at 4th and F street. http://www.nbm.org/
Hard to trust an article that gets the name of the venue wrong.
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Re:
[Read the article: Kiss my ass]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Re: ehillesum's letter
I think your three arguments are specious. Here's why..
1. "The life expectancy of gay men" - There are no reliable stats on this. Certainly the AIDS pandemic of the 1980s affected that decades' statistics, but since gay men have embraced safer sex, I doubt there's much of a difference between gay and straight life expectancy. Certainly, I personally know gay men in their 60s and 70s, and one couple in their 90s.
2. "God and evolution" - A irrelevant argument. God and evolution both ordain that man is not to fly; but that doesn't mean people who use airlines are morally deficient.
3. "Gay men are irresponsible" - First, safer sex is now widesapread among gay men, as discussed above. Second, get back to me how how "responsible" straights are when the pregnancy rate among teenagers goes to zero, m'OK?
>>Original letter at http://letters.salon.com/books/review/2008/06/12/eskridge/permalink/3cc73958bb7ca86c239b6e9e44dc0c68.html
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It's Happened Before...
[Read the article: And Obama's veep is ... a Republican?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It would not be the first time a liberal Democrat reached across to put a Republican on the ticket... Al Gore did this first in 2000 (well, a de facto republican anyway).
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Off-Shore Drilling? And Green?
[Read the article: McCain's new ad goes green]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Today's WashPost has a story about McCain supporting ending the ban on off-shore drilling.
(see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR2008061602731.html?hpid=topnews)
So he's trying to appeal to green independents and the non-greens at the same time..
Gee, wasn't this what the GOP called "flip-flopping" 4 years ago?
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Alaska
[Read the article: Obama camp releases first general election ad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Take a look at the senate race. While Sen. Ted Stevens has never won re-election with less than 66% of the vote, he's only 2 points ahead of the Dem challenger (and the Dem was 2 points ahead last week). It's a virtual tie.
Alaska - like Virginia - may be a surprise on election night.
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McCain "would rather lose our soldier's lives ... [than] an election"
[Read the article: Obama "would rather lose a war ... [than] an election"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Isn't this what it's really all about?