Letters to the Editor
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Opus is a welcome addition for me. Glad you brought Breathed on board.
Machinist? A waste of bandwidth as far as I'm concerned. Manjoo is an unimpressive journalist who wears his petulance on his sleeve when called out for her errors in reporting and reasoning. Frankly, I see him as the Camille Paglia of technology reporting, so I won't bother with him.
Duchovny would be a fun guest if you can make it happen. He's a smart fellow and I've long found him to have interesting things to say.
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another columnist
Just a thought, Joan, but have you read much James Kunstler?
He'd be an even bigger coup for Salon than Greenwald.
His current blog is as insightful of the current political swamp as anything I've read here, or elsewhere..
http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/
Salon needs to start talking about the issues Kunstler is discussing. Otherwise, your heads are as much in the sand as anyone else's. We need some big-picture thinking here.
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That's great news!
Does that mean you're secure again enough in your liberal elite cred to bring back "The Fix" now?
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I disagree with Bukk63. I have enjoyed Farhad Manjoo's articles for years. Maybe that's because I am in a technical field.
I also agree with had_enough about Jim Kunstler and the issues he raises. Not just about peak oil and global warming, but also how we are designing our cities and towns. We have framed everything in terms of automobiles for way way too long.
As for Berkeley Breathed and Opus, GREAT! Now I have a reason to check Salon over the usually dead weekend. I still miss Bloom County, sigh.
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Machinist needs a redesign
The design is a misrepresentation of the content.
It looks like some B2B site for tool and die suppliers.
Come on, Farhad, technology looks better than that.
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Coup?
You call them up and offer to pay them. It's not complicated. Greewald is clearly a pull-through strategy to get the hit count up.
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Farhad's Blog
While I don't feel that Farhad's new blog completely sucks, I feel it would greatly benefit from a redesign. Why must it look so different. It is not easy to get back to the home page without accidentally logging out. The colors are less than fantastic. However, what Farhad has to say isn't complete crap. So maybe make it a little bit lengthier and in depth, and fire the person who actually designed the page, and you may just have a great new column on your hands.
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Opus? Oh dear
No doubt I'm swimming against the tide here, but I've long thought the so-called edgy political satire, wit, or insight (or create your own dust-jacket cliche) of Berkeley Breathed's comic strips was enormously overrated. It distresses me to see Salon adding Opus to the masthead.
I'm one of the few who could hardly stand Bloom County while in college in the '80s, and I've watched in horror as he's whorishly resurrected a succession of those characters into Opus. I don't know the guy (though I attended Colorado College with his wife--did she ever date David Peskin?), but I just don't like his stuff.
If you wanted to add a strip in keeping with Salon's outlook, go with Ted Rall or the mad genius behind Get Your War On.
http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war64.html
Well, maybe his language is too raw... but I bet he could use the money more than Breathed could.
Sorry if this sounds bitter, but this is one of the few editorial missteps I've watched you guys make in the seven years I've been a member.
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Yeah, coup. you made my point for me..
@realname: if Greenwald is merely a ploy to increase hit-counts, then Kunstler would be even better, in my view. And, so he could be a coup for Salon because he too would increase hit-counts. That compute for ya, cowboy?
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Joan,
aren't you going to comment on your Scarborough's gaffe?
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When Joan is away, the mice will play!
Louisiana congressman William Jefferson on Tuesday requested temporary leave as a member of the House Small Business Committee, a day after he was indicted by a federal grand jury on a raft of corruption charges.
And shame on the Democratic leadership, Reed and Pelosi, for not demanding he step down when this story first broke.
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Opus? Well, OK!
Tsk tsk to the person who dislikes the addition of Opus to Salon! I say Great! Grand! Thanks a bunch! I love it!
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Wow
Between the introduction of Opus and a "new" column by Camille Paglia, Salon continues to bring its readers roaring into the 1990s!!!
Opus sucks. Breathed came back like some kind of prima donna, demanded the strip be run no smaller than 1/2 page in any paper that carried it (meaning other deserving artists got the chop unnecessarily), and then proceeded to give us a weak, watered-dowon and uninspired recycling of Bloom County gags. (Comics fans have noted a couple of strips that are straight recycling of BC strips.)
America has never been more at need of piercing political satire. And Salon runs some of the best around - Tom the Dancing Bug, This Modern World - but adding Opus solely on name recognition value is another editorial step backwards. I haven't been this disappointed in a decision (other than the Paglia column) since the hated Pink Ghetto was created.
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Thanks, I didn't know JetBlue showed Fox--I will be sure and never fly with them.
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