Letters to the Editor
rebeccah
Published Letters: 5
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Raging...
[Read the article: Miracle drug of anger]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you, Garry--the sound of myself laughing out loud is a welcome tonic indeed!
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For me, it's "The Wire"
[Read the article: The best TV show of all time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Sopranos is wonderful entertainment and I can't fault anything about it. Nothing. But The Wire cuts deeper, as if it were a pathologist's report describing a particularly aggressive cancer, which in this case happens to be the capitalist system.
A close friend of mine, a now-retired AD who escaped from the street life of the South Bronx and got his start as a gofer in the blaxploitation films of the 70's, agrees completely. His take: "There's not an ounce of fat on that m**********r. It's the best thing that's ever been on tv and you can tell anyone I said so!"
I haven't read this entire thread and may have missed something pertinent, but David Simon did say in an interview that the only character in the show not to have been drawn from his and Burns's years on the street is Omar, who might have been the hero of a Sergio Leone
western.
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Journalism's Last Line of Defense?
[Read the article: Journalism's last line of defense]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jeffrey--Grover Norquist vs. Terry Gross: you didn't exactly cover yourself with glory during that episode. In fact, that marked the point when I pulled the plug on further contributions to NPR.
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COLIN POWELL?!!!
[Read the article: Obama Veepstakes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Get serious--I wouldn't vote for him if everyone else was dead! He traded away his honor and integrity 40 years ago helping to cover up the My Lai investigation and his perjured testimony at the UN in support of the Iraq invasion only convinces me that he hasn't changed since then.
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Not Colin Powell...
[Read the article: Obama Veepstakes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry, I was so annoyed that Colin Powell was even mentioned that I forgot to add that Jim Webb is far and away my favorite and the most viable choice for the VP candidate.