Letters to the Editor
Alex Tucker
Published Letters: 161 Editor's Choice: 20
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I agree with Traister
[Read the article: Hollywood and swine]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's not often Rebecca Traister and I are on the same page, but boy does she have this one nailed. I sincerely hope the idea for the pig in heels came from some frat-boy editors who forgot they worked at FHM and found their way into the Details offices by mistake. For the record, Jill Greenberg, the photographer in question, is no stranger to eye-catching conceptual art. Google her and see what I mean.
Anyway, pointing fingers at the photo isn't the point. The problem is the idea itself is really teeth-gnashingly awful. And if the kids at Details figure it got you attention... well, then, it worked, didn't it? As for the article itself... only in our bizarro society would a woman who even comes close to a size 6 be considered "meaty". I give this latest "put some meat on them bones" quasi-fad three to six months, and the pendulum will swing back to the uber-waifs. And we'll all be lesser for it.
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Who's more evil?
[Read the article: Wait, was Karl Rove in Boulder this week?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, we all know Karl Rove (AKA Turdblossom) is the devil's bootlick. And yes, we all know Dick Cheney is a soulless homonculus. My question for this forum is: who's more evil? Is it a push? Personally I give it to Rove because he's occasionally flamboyant in his evil. Not even Snidely Whiplash, Lex Luthor and Hannibal Lecter combined have taken so much glee in wrongdoing. Dick, on the other hand, has always been the weasel who dislikes coming out of his bunker. ("The sun! It burns!") If he sees his shadow, it's six more weeks of going on 'Meet The Press', denying he ever said anything about WMD's even though it's on tape.
So, who's more evil? Discuss amongst yourselve.
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One of the single funniest...
[Read the article: Talk dirty to me, please?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One of the single funniest responses Cary has ever written. My sides hurt from laughing so hard. Thanks to Mr Tennis, I now have a whole slew of new options previously unbeknownst to me!
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'Snide is right"... is right.
[Read the article: And the Buffy goes to...]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The anonymous poster nailed it perfectly. C'mon, Kerry. Insulting the collective intelligence of a group simply because they don't agree with your position? Those are tactics worthy of disgusting homunculi like O'Reilly and Coulter. I understand the anger and frustration of watching a good show possibly meet its end at the cold hands of corporate monoliths. I've only watched a few episodes of "Battlestar", but what I've seen has been outstanding. So why haven't I stuck around to watch it? Because there are simply other things in my life that bear my attention. Just because a show may not be garnering the ratings it deserves doesn't mean the effort isn't appreciated.
Maybe I'm wrong, and the real subtext here is Lauerman's (and by extension, Salon's) disdain for all those tedious little flyover states between the coasts. Perhaps Lauerman genuinely thinks it's just a gentle tweaking he's giving to the unwashed masses, not the snotty diatribe that actually appears. I have a liberal arts education. I joined the ACLU in college. The first vote in a presidential election I ever cast was for Dukakis. And yes, I am unrepentantly Southern. Someone needs to yank Lauerman's half-fat double-mocha cappo out of his hand and inform him there are lots of blue minds living in those nasty red states. Then again, would he pull his nose out his Blackberry long enough to even listen? After all, people like me are just basement-dwelling, emotionally stunted, hopelessly middlebrow mouth-breathers with gun racks on the back of our environment-destroying Hummers.
I love Salon. But at times it is a very unrequited love.
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Well said, Mr. Lauerman
[Read the article: And the Buffy goes to...]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As Foghorn Leghorn once said, "Shut my mouth and call me mumbles." Well rebutted, KL. That's what I get for throwing out a baseless assumption, and I am genuinely embarrassed. Certainly no one could blame you for being angry at the Emmy wingnuts. Apparently all it takes to get a nomination these days is fourteen seconds of screen time (congratulations anyway, Ms Burstyn). Judging from the general tone of the letters I've read, though, I would say something in your Top 10 List really did get lost in translation.
On an unrelated note, I do believe there is a bias at Salon, whether consciously or not. That was displaced frustration on my part, and is another letter for another time.
I promise you this: I will watch "Battlestar" in its entirety this season. I've already started to catch up on the back story online so I won't be at a complete loss. I owe it to myself to make the commitment.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a tasty dish of crow in front of me that needs some choking down.
Requitedly yours,
AT
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a small measure of satisfaction
[Read the article: Chad harpy strikes again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At least come November we'll all have a small measure of satisfaction, maybe even a little schadenfreude when she gets her corrupt tuchis kicked to the moon and back.
Nah, not even schadenfreude. Just Freude.
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sorry about that
[Read the article: Must-see TV: Olbermann on Rumsfeld]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gee, Tim, you're right. It wasn't funny at all.
Good for Keith. Not all commentary has to be delivered with wry chuckle.
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Name the kid Karma and be done with it
[Read the article: Mommie fearest]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One can only assume Ms. Havrilesky's offspring will be a shining ball of light-- after all, we're talking a chip off the old block, right? Right?? Hmmm. On second thought, better check to see how many sixes are on the little pud when it hatches. I hope karma's just a lovely fairy tale, otherwise all those metric tons of snarkiness she's released over the years are gonna tidal wave back on her.
Better put yer wellies on, Ms. H...
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Well, of course they're optimsitic
[Read the article: The midterm elections: The GOP's Iraq, or Florida revisited?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How many states use Diebold machines? How many Republican state legislatures shot down bills that would have called for paper trails on election day? How many Katherine Harrises are out there, ready to tilt tainted results the GOP's way? Example: Sherrod Brown leads Republican Sen. Mike DeWine in Ohio by what looks like a comfortable margin as of this morning-- kids, don't be shocked if DeWine wins outright, at least by a razor-thin margin.
Republican corruption runs far, and it runs deep.