Letters to the Editor

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Why We Need Daily Newspaper Arts Coverage
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Don't Drink And Drive a Golf Cart
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The Scots Fire Back
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Yearly Archive

2008 (14 articles)
2007 (37 articles)
2006 (52 articles)
2005 (52 articles)
2004 (52 articles)
2003 (53 articles)
2002 (52 articles)
2001 (52 articles)
2000 (51 articles)
1999 (52 articles)
1998 (23 articles)

"So if your not in a tux or Ball Gown and fancy car or INSIDE attending a Posh event, your considered a CRIMINAL MOB ELEMENT!!!" - Dec 29, 1999

"The computer industry is far more complex and diverse than you think. It is only the ignorant who believe that Microsoft is a monopoly. A monopoly of what?" - Dec 22, 1999

"Who said the revolution was yours anyway? Who said you or any group owned the protests against the WTO on November 30th?" - Dec 15, 1999

"In three months' time we'll look back and realize how lucky we are — Seattle is on the map." - Dec 8, 1999

"We belong to the planet, WTO. Tread lightly, it's the only one we have." - Dec 1, 1999

"It's understandable how Shapiro rationalize[s] [child care] into a feminist or lifestyle issue, but it still looks like cowardice or laziness to me." - Nov 24, 1999

". . . the personal lives of artists are very often messy and even ugly. If you're looking to listen to some tunes by good, clean-living types, let me suggest Donnie and Marie, Pat Boone, and Whitney Houston for starters." - Nov 17, 1999

"...the Weekly seems to be putting this personal grudge match with Amazon before any sense of journalism. I can only assume that someone on their staff failed to gain employment from Amazon." - Nov 10, 1999

". . . the conservative right constitutes a formidable component in the contemporary rush toward all things sleek, swift, and electronic." - Nov 3, 1999

"Let's face it. Whether we Seattle residents like it or not, many other people are going to want to live here in coming years for the very reasons we love it today: beautiful surroundings, a thriving cultural life, and robust economic opportunity." - Oct 27, 1999

". . . it challenges our perception and may lead to entirely new ways of perceiving human psychology, biology, andthe nature of reality." - Oct 20, 1999

"...how much would a company pay to be the official beer of the Sound Transit drivers...?" - Oct 13, 1999

"The old adage goes "Don't send a boy to do a man's job." It should be "Don't send a woman to address a man's issue" in the case of the book review by Emily White. . . ." - Oct 6, 1999

". . . they also foster a climate of intimidation and reprisals of those that say too much about wonderful Amazonia. . . ." - Sep 29, 1999

"If you are a transit user, your waits are going to be longer, your connections less frequent, your buses dirtier, and your fares higher." - Sep 22, 1999

"Why aren't Geov Parrish and his friends sticking up for that single mom? What about her interests, her emotions, and her right to be able to purchase whatever she needs at the best price?" - Sep 15, 1999

"The nut-cakes you ought to be focusing on are the seven boobs who call themselves 'the Seattle School Board'. . . ." - Sep 8, 1999

"I can tell you that I too suffer occasionally from nostalgia—although what I long for is the time when journalism consisted of checking the facts." - Sep 1, 1999

"The region has the stuff to lead a clean energy revolution that will allow a rapid transition out of fossil fuels, which is what it will take to stave off climate change that will be disastrous. . . ." - Aug 25, 1999

"We heard the same kind of naive boosterism during the 80's and the birth of the yuppies. It wasn't 'Morning in America' for the middle class then, and it sure isn't now." - Aug 18, 1999

"How about the best place to meet women in wheelchairs? Or the best place to meet pigeon-toed women, or the best place to meet blonde women with big boobs and no brains?" - Aug 11, 1999

"We, the people, who voted this plan into existence, cannot allow this transit initiative to falter or even to be significantly altered in order to please a few private business interests." - Aug 4, 1999

"You guys are leftist Democrats—you want big powerful government to attack your bad guys (cold-hearted rich people, big scary corporations). And the right wants to use government. . . ." - Jul 28, 1999

"Yes, Inga, there are a lot of self-righteous white gay men out there, but so what." - Jul 21, 1999

Letters - Jul 14, 1999
"Remember the pathetic frenzy after Ellis' blubberfest, to give the Mariners everything they wanted? The County Council and the PFD wrote the Mariners a blank check, and now they want to cash it."

Letters - Jul 7, 1999
"Of course, one can't expect white-coat welfare recipients to admit that their breeding colonies and labs should be cut off from the federal tax dollar trough they feed from . . ."

Letters - Jun 30, 1999
"I like to pick up the Weekly and read interesting articles from the 'let's slander successful local big businesses and symbolically save the whales/kids/damp areas' fringe group."

Letters - Jun 23, 1999
"To think that one little dog could create such anarchy among the opressive Great Society that loops Green Lake is strangely comforting to me."

Letters - Jun 16, 1999
"By the way, what do you think of Bellevue residents who know even less of the 'real' Seattle than some German who spent three drunken days around Pike Place Market?"

Letters - Jun 9, 1999
"The Weekly's review of The Phantom Menace was not only stupid, but actually a display of the real problem with the movie: the audience, the critics, and the media."

Letters - Jun 2, 1999
"This modern era of chain consolidations and radio-TV competition seems to have robbed neighborhood newspapers of the chance to prosper and serve their communities."

Letters - May 26, 1999
"Calling attention to these well-meaning groups by labeling them left-wing and, by insinuation, 'Communist' is nothing but red-baiting!"

Letters - May 19, 1999
"Nowadays the '10 Essentials' (for climbers) are urged on everyone venturing into Woodland Park. . . . Gearheads presently are dancing in glee at the essentiality of having a GPS in your rucksack."

Letters - May 12, 1999
"Reading through the Dining Annual issue, a newcomer to Seattle would think that Seattle was truly the carnivore capital of America."

Letters - May 5, 1999
"Apartment buildings are bad places to have band practice, elevators are bad places to fart, and crowded cities are bad places to own animals that require lots of space."

Letters - Apr 28, 1999
"Monopolistic corporate greed is why we end up listening to so much trash whetherwe like it or not."

Letters - Apr 21, 1999

Letters - Apr 14, 1999

Letters - Apr 7, 1999
Guy-bash outrage

Virtual roller coaster - Mar 31, 1999

Letters - Mar 24, 1999
ACLU on the defense

Electronic music - Mar 17, 1999

Letters - Mar 10, 1999
Close encounter

Letters - Mar 3, 1999
Stark contrast

Letters - Feb 24, 1999
Slight seeing

Letters - Feb 17, 1999
Defaced

Letters - Feb 10, 1999
Netting the Republicans

Letters - Feb 3, 1999
The writing's on the wall

Letters - Jan 27, 1999
Be prepared

Letters - Jan 20, 1999
'Weekly' whiners

Letters - Jan 13, 1999
Endangered drivers

Letters - Jan 6, 1999
Schell game

To Do List

Saturday, May 17

Dead Meadow, SubArachnoid Space, Whalebones, Patrol
Man, the stoners haven't had a pairing this perfect since Comets on Fire pl... More>>
El Corazon, Sat., May 17, 7:00pm, $10 adv./$12

Peter Bagge
Artist Peter Bagge will show off a form of panels from Hate, his pioneering... More>>
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery, Sat., May 17, 6:00pm-9:00pm

Thee Emergency (CD release), the Valley, the Hands
With Dita Vox at the helm, Seattle garage-rock band Thee Emergency speciali... More>>
King Cobra, Sat., May 17, 8:00pm

174 more things to do today>>