Letters to the Editor
Alex Tucker
Published Letters: 161 Editor's Choice: 20
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Red
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I had forgotten she did this one a while back. Red flags, one of the classic symbols of "danger ahead", doubling as red poppies -- rememberance for the victims of violence from men. I'm unsure if Carol herself refused to color her hood red intentionally; perhaps she thought Red Riding Hood have been too much of a ham-handed metaphor? Possibly, but I don't think it would be amiss. Once again, Carol Lay proves she's adept at sending chills up our spines.
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The NFC Championship - Denny's Waterloo
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Because the average football fan has a memory that stretches about as far as last week. I'm sure very few of you guys remember Denny's Minnesota Vikings were heavily favored against the Atlanta Falcons in Jan. of 1999. They held the lead for the majority of the game, and while leading 27-20 late in the fourth they brought out Gary Anderson to hit a field goal that would have likely iced it. Irony of ironies, I believe Anderson had previously set an NFL record for most consecutive FG's in a row.
Well, Anderson missed it and the Falcons marched down the field and tied it with 30 seconds left. Even though the Vikes had scored over 500 points that season (this was Randy Moss' rookie year) and had a full compliment of 3 timeouts, Denny made a half-hearted lob down to the middle to Moss and then took a knee to force overtime. All because he lost faith in a kicker who nailed over fifty in a row. Denny's reasoning must have been, "Gee, isn't a trip to the Super Bowl on the line? Oh, well, we can play a rematch next week if we lose." Denny is, at heart, a chicken.
Three years later the Patriots refused to take a knee in Super Bowl 36, even though that lovable-yet-senile old coot John Madden told them to. They had no timeouts, but gosh darn it, Bill Belichick said, "The World Championship's on the line, whaddya say we try and win it?" The Pats have gone down in history as a dynasty. Denny Green will get fired and go back to being an 'expert analyst' (snort) at ESPN.
Fortune favors the bold, and the Lord hates a coward, Denny.
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Kaufman-Easterbrook smackdown?
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Both King's and Gregg's colums are well written and enjoyable. Not sure what the deal is with most of the posters here trying to get some sort of Kaufman-Easterbrook bitchslap going (other than for the sheer amusement factor). The only place where TMQ tops KK is in the Cheer Babe category. Of course, Salon is about eleventy jillion steps ahead of ESPN in terms of integrity, and would never stoop so low as to pander to its readers', ah, baser instincts.
But come on, King! Cheer Babes!
Just throwing my two wheatbacks in.
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The Plucky World Series
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When Chavez made that catch, I couldn't help but think, "That's it. No team that makes that kind of play should be allowed to lose. That would be inustice on a cosmic scale." But lose the Mets did, and now it's the plucky, never-say-die Cards against the plucky, never-say-die Tigers. Problem is, who to root for? I like 'em both. Nobody remembers in April that these same Detroits were picked as a middling team at best, and that a .500 season would be considered great progress. Likewise, no one remembers the St. Louisians had a commanding lead in the NL Central for a goodly part of the year, only that they almost had an ignominious meltdown near the end.
So here they are, a team we expected to be here in April (the Cards) and a team nobody expected (the Tigers). Of course, October being what it is, the roles are reversed. The Motor City Kitties are the Big Bad Cats, rested and ready to feast on limping and bruised Redbirds. Do I think the Cards will win? Not really. But would it surprise me? Not a bit. I am really looking forward to this matchup, even as the rest of the nation will likely tune out. Which is a shame, because I think it'll be a dilly.
If you were to ask any man on either team whether they can go all the way, he'd likely sum it up in four words: "Why the hell not?"
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Send in the Hitlerbots!
[Read the article: 2006 political ads: The star(?)-studded response to Michael J. Fox]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]An addendum to the ad as presented by, oh, anyone who listens to a bit too much Rush:
"And stem cell research will lead to cloning, and then cloning will result in mad scientists setting up cloning facilities in their underground lairs, and they'll clone a bunch of Hitlers, because I saw that movie "Boys From Brazil". And then there'll be a Fourth Reich, which is like, one reich worse than a Third Reich, but at least Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld can send in Navy SEALS to destroy the underground cloning lairs, but not before all the Hitlers and their Hitlerbots destroy the west coast (but who cares anyway because it's San Fran and LA and all those limp-wristed latte drinkers.) But what if the Hitlerbots blow up Kansas or Alabama or some other God-fearing parts of the country? What if they blow up Branson or Dollywood or Jesus over Six Flags? Where will I take the family to vacation then? It's all the fault of those evil, stupid liberals who ramble on and on. So, uh, stop stem cell research, because if God didn't want you to have cancer He wouldn't have given it to you anyway."
Seriously, anyone get the feeling the right-wingnuts are this close to claiming The Almighty wanted Michael J. Fox to get Parkinson's?