Letters to the Editor
Bukk63
Published Letters: 584 Editor's Choice: 64
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Well, whatever
[Read the article: Slaughtering rock's sacred cows]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I mean, sure, some of the comments are funny, but in the end you have a bunch of people who aren't nearly as talented as those they're denigrating trashing work they can't hope to match. It reveals their own pettiness and petulance more than anything else.
George Burns said, "If you were married to Marilyn Monroe, you'd cheat with some ugly girl," and that comment applies to this. The most wonderful thing in the gets old after a while. Sometimes we need to take a break and come back to something to regain our appreciation.
I've gotten sick of all of those records at various points in my life, and come back to them and loved them all over again. So what? The fact that we want something different doesn't mean great art stops being great art. It means we enjoy variety in our lives.
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I always thought...
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...that "musicologist" was a word that the Car Talk guys made up for their gag credits.
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Yeah
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm a little tired of God Bless America too. Though I think the reason we sing martial, jingoistic songs at sporting events isn't that mystifying. Sports are rife with martial metaphors, both in the way they're talked about and in the way they're played.
Here is my question. How come the fellow's answers to the most interesting questions King asked basically boiled down to "I dunno."
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Since Snow actively denied it...
[Read the article: The good news about George W. Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...I presume that very shortly we will discover video of Bush binding people's hands behind their backs and throwing them from rooftops. And of course the MSM will ignore the story when it breaks, though Sean Hannity et. al. will declare breathlessly, "If the president DIDN'T bind their hands and throw them from the roof, the terrorists would have already won."
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Exactly like.
[Read the article: Lose weight! Feel great! Well, maybe not]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This drug seems to produce the same results as having your gallbladder removed, if my experience is any guide.
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Folks
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's just a typo. You never made a typo?
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I would like to spill a beer on the president.
[Read the article: Yeah, but who among us wouldn't love to have a beer with George W. Bush?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Does that count?
It would be a Bud or Coors or Miller Lite though. Not an actual beer.
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Surprised but not shocked
[Read the article: The hullabaloo over Digby]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To the extent I even thought about, I suppose I assumed she was a he. In fact, though logically I knew she wasn't Peter Finch, in my mind -- even now, after watching the video of her! -- I still picture Peter Finch when I see the name Digby.
More than her gender, the thing I've always thought about her is that she is the best out there. Digby should be required reading for everyone.
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Here's a tissue, Mikes
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wipe up and put it back in your pants already.
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I'm fringe.
[Read the article: Face of a psychopath]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am opposed to the wholesale slaughter of people. Call me Moonbat.
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Individual creators are always the ones who get fucked
[Read the article: Surveying the rubble]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The business couldn't exist without them, but they take in the shorts everytime some rich CEO doesn't make a nickel. Same in true in book publishing.
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Wesley,...
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're a butt. I agree with you about Griffey, but you're still a butt. Will you stop posting now?
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Like the so-called liberal media
[Read the article: Is the press too nice to Apple?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jack forgets that the Apple hate runs deep and runs true, both in the media and in the population at large. Journalists may get caught up in the Jobs show, but every other minute there's a story about Apple dying, exploding, sucking, overreaching, etc.
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Ultimately...
[Read the article: Is the press too nice to Apple?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...in this thread, those who point their fingers at Apple and Apple users and cry, "J'accuse!" are at least as shrill, misinformed, and "sad sad sad" as those they're attacking.
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My first reaction
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I read the comic, and thought, "Meh." I mean, it was fine, but nothing special. It's not a new idea, but whatever.
Then I read Mr Owen going repeatedly batshit crazy.
Now I love the strip. You go, Berk! Woot!
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*shakes head*
[Read the article: Summer reads]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]*wanders off, unsure whether to laugh or cry*
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I agree about the uniforms
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why not red, white, and blue on the uniforms?
As for how great America is, well, that's our problem. We have so many of us thinking we're so great that reasoned self-reflection and criticism are forbidden. So many of us are blind to our failings and therefore contribute to making the failings worse. People like Mikes Pace, with his unrepentent self-love, actually makes America worse.
There is nothing wrong with recognizing our failings and weakness. Without such recognition, the problems can't be addressed. You solve a problem first by acknowledging it.
American Exceptionalism is far more damaging to America than a Che Guevara t-shirt. They don't hate us for our freedoms. They hate us because we're act like chest-thumping, self-absorbed, frat brat assholes.
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Thompson more vulnerable than the Beltway understands
[Read the article: A Cheney-Thompson swap?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]IF he makes a serious play for the Repug nomination, or wins it, and IF the Dems paint him for who he is: a Hollywood dilettante slash corporate lobbyist, he's eminently beatable. But he has to get hit hard with the truth. If the Dems let the role win out over the actual man, though, they could have problems.
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I like swears and gratuitous nudity
[Read the article: "Live Free or Die Hard"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So I guess I wouldn't like Evan Almighty. And I wasn't planning on seeing Live Free or Die Hard until people started reacting to Justin Long's God comment. Religious zealots with no sense of humor make me laugh, and when they get in a dither when someone badmouths their alleged deity, I feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
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Get ready for a Mikes Pace freak out
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oden didn't play at Texas. Save yourself, King, before the self-righteous Ohio-hidebound frat rat fury of Mikes Pace makes textual diarrhea all over your letters page.
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If I didn't have something to hide...
[Read the article: White House: Transcripts are a "perjury trap"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...I wouldn't be worried about warrantless wiretaps, now would I?
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Playboy isn't exactly porn
[Read the article: Playboy wants to get on your iPhone]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sure, you can see naughty bits, but when I see the word "porn," I tend to think of naughty bits TOUCHING each other, rhythmically. Not naughty bits touched by the Soften tool in Photoshop.
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Oh, good grief
[Read the article: Playboy wants to get on your iPhone]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I deeply apologize for attempting to make a joke. But simply saying it wasn't funny would have sufficed. The constipated essays were unnecessary.