Letters to the Editor
Alex Tucker
Published Letters: 161 Editor's Choice: 20
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a loose translation
[Read the article: I'm a babe, a total catch -- so why am I alone at 39?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm funny, smart, charming and dynamic. I'm complimented almost daily on my looks, so I know I'm not ugly... I usually find out later that they have chosen to pursue someone less attractive and much dumber... I volunteer my time regularly. I have a career I enjoy, a wonderful family and a dear best friend. I wear nice clothes. I drive a very nice car.
Hmmm. Let's translate:
I'm selfish, convinced of my peerless genius and enjoy bullying people under the guise of being "dynamic". Men ogle my body, thus validating my piss-poor sense of self-worth... yet when I find out these same men have chosen women who don't match up to my goddess-like status, I instinctively denigrate these women to mask my hurt and rejection... I volunteer my time regularly, and by that I mean I once donated fifty bucks to a food bank. I have a career that makes me an obscene amount of cash. True, material goods are a sad substitute for genuine human emotions, but who cares? I'm rich. And smart. And beautiful. Just ask me.
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eh??
[Read the article: Wal-Mart's whopper of a sex discrimination suit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Somebody needs to go back and proof that third paragraph -- there's obviously some text missing.
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just can't take her seriously anymore
[Read the article: Dickerson on Colbert]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've read Ms. Dickerson's essays, and before the Obama piece I'd considered her a fairly reasonable woman who makes cogent arguments. After her essay, all that changed. Here was just another talking head saying Sen. Obama just isn't "black" enough. I groaned as I read the article, then put it out of my mind as someone else with a two-cent opinion.
But when I actually saw her on The Colbert Report -- hoo boy. Smug, self-satisfied and convinced of her circutious logic, until one of the great satirists of our time utterly twisted her argument into so much silly string. From this point on I can never take her seriously again. She could point upwards and I'd wait for the argument as to how it's not really a blue sky compared to other blue skies.
Dickerson's a crank. Not a crank on par with someone mentally unhinged, like Camille Paglia, but a crank just the same.
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unhinged and back
[Read the article: Camille's back!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just recently I posted a letter on here, regarding Debra Dickerson's evisceration at the hands of Stephen Colbert. I wrote:
Dickerson's a crank. Not a crank on par with someone mentally unhinged, like Camille Paglia, but a crank just the same.
Well, speak of the devil and up she pops, as welcome and cuddly as stage three syphillis. At least I can say I will be renewing my Salon subscription, because there's no reason to stop reading the fine articles on this site just because of an astounding lack of judgement on part of the editors. I can sidestep her insane harangues like so much horse flop, even if the stench reaches all the way from King Kaufman to Tom the Dancing Bug.
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I remember election night, 2000
[Read the article: Is there life after Bush?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I remember election night, 2000. I was standing in the lobby of the Read House, a local hotel hired out by the Gore campaign. A hundred or so of us stood there, watching helplessly as Florida was taken off the board in our column. A shaken 60-year old woman stood next to me and started to cry, saying she knew if she had to stare at Bush's smug frat boy eyes that no good would ever come of it. I nodded, but I never knew how bad it would really get.
Now I know. Now we all know.
Fast forward to this week. Ole Dubya came by my little southern city on Wednesday. As expected, the God-fearing, gay-bashing, race-baiting, flag-waving folk were allowed on the sidewalk as his motorcade drove by. And I stood with the protesters, safely away from the television cameras. I was guarded for my "protection" by the police, cordoned off safely away from his smug frat boy eyes.
Is there life after Bush? I'm sure there is. But as for today... oh, George. Please, please, PLEASE go away.
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YEAH!
[Read the article: The speech Hillary should give]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That was a GREAT mock speech, the kind that would help Hill's own cause immensely. Naturally she will never, ever deliver it.
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Spot on!
[Read the article: The K Chronicles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here's to the human mouth, the only thing in the universe known to outrace the ability to think! Exactly how deep was the hole you were burying yourself in, Keef? Was it cozy?
I really do feel for ya, pal. Hey, maybe you've should've said it just proves the British are hard to kill. That would've impressed her!
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Oh, Dickie
[Read the article: Various matters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since the smashing repudiation his party suffered at the hands of the American voter in the 2006 midterm elections, Dick Cheney's behavior has become palpably more secretive, combative, and scornful.
Is that even possible? When was the last time the American public was subjected to such a soulless husk, not only in the political arena but as a member of Homo sapiens? 23 people killed so near him, and you just know he couldn't have given a rat's ass if it were 23 million.
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Easy
[Read the article: My ex's grandmother left me some money -- should I share it with him?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My ex's grandmother left me some money -- should I share it with him?
No.
Next.
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as usual
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As usual, Tom hits the nail on the head when it comes to right-wing demagoguery. As usual, I agree with him completely. And as usual, I'm bored.
I love the message, but can't the messenger change the melody while staying true to the lyrics?
See you kids next week when the same thing will happen again.
And again.
And again.
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wow!
[Read the article: Xanax avengers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Too bad the guy only got six months -- still, that's six months more than he might ever have gotten. Those into schadenfreude and/or ironic punishments may wonder if prison taught him more about the crime of rape than he ever bargained for.
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yeah Keef!
[Read the article: The K Chronicles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now THAT'S a damned good cartoon!
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Suicide?
[Read the article: How Bush helped the GOP commit suicide]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sadly, they've not committed suicide. Impossible, really, because how do you kill the undead?
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Amazing!
[Read the article: The K Chronicles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Keef's only been in L.A. for, what, twenty minutes and yet he's nailed it perfectly! You'd think he was a born-and-bred Angelino. Love that Keef!