Letters to the Editor
Bukk63
Published Letters: 584 Editor's Choice: 64
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Or neither
[Read the article: Paul Pierce's resurrection]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sometimes something just hurts like screaming hell, but after a bit it's not so bad. But, of course, acknowledging that is not nearly so fun as calling a guy a pussy or a drama queen.
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Um, . . . so?
[Read the article: Paul Pierce's resurrection]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Doesn't mean it doesn't hurt.
If it's an act, then you validate it and give it power when you resort to name-calling in response. If it's a genuine reaction to pain, even one that you wouldn't have yourself, your name-calling ends up saying more about you than it does about him.
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Dude
[Read the article: What to expect in the new iPhone]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In, like, half an hour, you won't have to guess anymore. I mean, this post should have gone up two weeks go, not mere minutes before the presentation.
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Difference between those other phones and iPhone
[Read the article: The 3G iPhone: Faster, cheaper, GPS. $199 on July 11]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Features, now and then, whatever. Using these other phones that have had the features for "two years" or whatever is like swimming with rocks in your pockets. Anyone who wants to, of course, has the right to swim with rocks in their pockets. More power to you. But let's be honest. A lot of these phones are at least as expensive as the iPhone, and often much more expensive. (I' thinking here of the $750 iPhone killer some guy who said iPhone users were dunces was promoting a few weeks ago, and which was only available in Europe. Heh.
Don't like the iPhone, don't buy it? Don't like marketing? Pitch a hissy out in the woods, where, if you're lucky, you might be able to avoid marketing. Otherwise, good grief, get over yourselves. No one is holding a gun to your head making you buy an iPhone, whatever features you imagine it's ripping off from some previous piece of shit device.
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We I was a boy...
[Read the article: Touché, Senator McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...we didn't have fancy electamacations. We pulled the lever for Ronnie because we knew he single-handedly beat Tojo, Adolf, AND the Reds from the burning deck of the U.S.S. Nimitz, and we didn't put up with no fancy-talking peanut farmers who lusted for womens in their hearts. We did as we told, no matter how stupid it was, and we liked it. We LOVED it!
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If it has rice in it, it's not beer
[Read the article: The king of beer mergers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Badweiser? Get behind me, Satan? Etc. Etc.
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The problem with the Hulk
[Read the article: "The Incredible Hulk"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The most interesting aspects of the premise are when Banner is NOT the Hulk.
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I have to agree with Dmag
[Read the article: "The Happening"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]His last few efforts weren't great, but I get the sense that critics rejected them less on their merits than on a "but all the kewl kids bash Shamalamadingdong movies now" vibe. It's as if this is their way to showing off what smartenheimers they are. In the end, I suspect this movie, too, is not as bad as the reviewer pretends, and possibly even enjoyable. I might have trusted the review more, of course, if the reviewer hadn't spent so much time showing off her own snark and blistering cleverness. Oh well. Not everyone can be Heather Havrilesky.
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The story was funny
[Read the article: Bad Dad Gift Guide]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The overwrought letters are even funnier. We had usual suspects brightstar and elephantman pitching their usual hissy fits. We had the "how dare you man bash" hissy fits. We had an earnest letter about who exactly snips the tubes. And so on. Pure, comedy gold.
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@ Robert Franklin
[Read the article: Bad Dad Gift Guide]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Speaking as not only a man, but also a father, I have to say just one thing. This article was hilarious, but not nearly as hilarious as your hysteria-laced, put-upon ninny routine. You crack me up, man. Seriously. Keep it coming!
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I'm sure he was a nice fellow
[Read the article: Tim Russert, one of the good guys]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I never would have wished ill of him, and am sympathetic to the loss his friends and family must be feeling.
But I also believe Russert as a journalist was one missed opportunity after another. His documented belief that all conversations were off the record unless specially told otherwise is, by itself, the clearest possible evidence that he considered his status as an insider in the clubby, we-can-do-no-wrong Beltway village more important than pursuing and reporting the truth as a journalist. His unwillingness to ask that last, most important follow-up question is also only too well-known.
In the end, he may have been a really nice guy. He certainly was a really smart guy. But he also never demonstrated any genuine moral courage. He was the rare journalist with the potential power to make a real difference, not by being ideological, but by being tenacious and by asking the questions that needed asking. But given the opportunity to be Walter Cronkite, he chose instead to be the president of the frat.
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@ cyclade
[Read the article: Superstar rules help the Lakers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You explained very clearly and eloquently why I'm no longer a follower of the NBA.
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Tasha Alexander
[Read the article: Summer reads]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A Fatal Waltz is the third in Ms. Alexander's delightful Victorian mysteries, featuring Lady Emily Ashton—following with And Only To Deceive and A Poisoned Season. Thoughtful, suspenseful, superbly-researched and utterly entrancing, these books are not to be missed.
http://tashaalexander.com
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We must remain objective
[Read the article: Obama: "I think families are off limits"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And the only way to do that is to maintain a false equivalency between racist attacks against Michelle Obama and calls for Cindy McCain to do what, say, we expected Bill Clinton to do as the spouse of a candidate.
"Baby Mama" = "Tax Returns." Surely we can all agree on at least that.
:p
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I like her better now
[Read the article: Joan Rivers' F-bomb on British television]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Best non-apology apology EVAR!
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Empathy?
[Read the article: Pipe down, Cindy McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is a Republican you're talking about. Empathy is a four-letter word to these people.
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He will take public financing
[Read the article: McCain: "We will take public financing"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And continue to break the law, the way he's done during the primary season. It's fun and easy when you're a Republican!
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I'm only half surprised
[Read the article: Obama says he supports FISA compromise]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I would have thought he'd wait until he was actually president before he capitulated on our fundamental freedoms as a people.