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Y'all who keep exploding at other writers for voicing dissenting opinion from your own...
C'MON! That's a good thing. A very good thing.
There is no one right answer.
(I like my answer, which is I don't like it...thought it was crap journalism, flabby writing, and tiresome. However, I really liked the smart reasonable letters of quite a few people who explained convincingly from their own perspective why they DID like it.)
This is the whole point of the Letters...or is so to me. I like them even better than almost any article Salon publishes. I like Salon's smart readers and I'm not looking for attitude clones of myself.