Saturday, July 04, 2009

• Palin slams press for response to her resignation

  In a message to supporters, the governor writes, "How sad that Washington and the media will never understand"

  By Alex Koppelman

  War Room

  128 letters

• The NYT calls Iranian tactics "torture"

  Techniques which the paper refuses to call "torture" when used by the U.S. magically transform when used by others

  By Glenn Greenwald

  Opinion

  246 letters

• How does your city garden grow?

  Seed sales are way up, and raising your own food is all the rage. It's a good time to be an urban farmer

  By Amy Benfer

  Life

  21 letters

Friday, July 03, 2009

• Tehran dispatch: Basijis hang around, do nothing

  As the capital returns to a normal routine, I see people in green and wonder, what were you doing three weeks ago?

  By Anonymous

  News

  6 letters

• The thriller is gone

  A member of Salon's Table Talk community shares his perspective on the Michael myth

  Table Talk

  17 letters

• The un-American way of life

  A controversial new history of Communism suggests that most everything we think we know about it is wrong

  By Andrew O'Hehir

  Books

  108 letters

• Rush Limbaugh is still a big fat idiot

  And so are his Fox News pals, who lambasted Sen. Al Franken's "stolen election"

  By Joe Conason

  Opinion

  323 letters

• Boobs, bulimia and breakups

  Does female confessional journalism really harm women?

  By Amanda Fortini

  Broadsheet

  51 letters

• WayLay

  The pros and cons of burqas

  By Carol Lay

  Comics

  36 letters

• You should be dancin', yeah

  And also killing people. The Pinochet-era ultra-dark comedy "Tony Manero" is the feel-bad movie of the year

  By Andrew O'Hehir

  Arts & Entertainment

  3 letters

Thursday, July 02, 2009

• Watching the defense contractors

  Lockheed Martin got $20 billion from the U.S. government in 2009. Want a list of invoices? Go to USAspending.gov

  By Andrew Leonard

  How the World Works

  7 letters

• Salon Radio: Charlie Savage on Obama

  The NYT reporter explains the many similarities between Obama's Terrorism policies and Bush's

  By Glenn Greenwald

  Opinion

  91 letters

• Californians are sinking themselves

  An inflexible right wing is allowing the Golden State to drown in debt. But it's not alone

  By Gary Kamiya

  Opinion

  265 letters

• Women I dated, when I was a man

  I kept hoping love would transform me. But, secretly, I longed to be female

  By Jennifer Finney Boylan

  Life

  74 letters

• Obama feels your pain on healthcare

  With a major legislative battle looming, the president continues to sell his plan, this time on Facebook

  By Mike Madden

  News

  89 letters

• Sex scandals are bipartisan

  But it's Republicans who are prone to preaching about other people's intimate lives

  By Gene Lyons

  News

  75 letters

• Iran: "The guest is God's friend"

  The detention of journalist Iason Athanasiadis is a legal abomination -- and a breach of Iranian hospitality

  By Sandy Tolan

  Opinion

  12 letters

• I got my act together but my wife is still mad

  I realized I had to change and I did. But now I find out she's been cheating!

  By Cary Tennis

  Life

  85 letters

• Tom the Dancing Bug

  Bob figures it out: How to escape from terrorists

  By Ruben Bolling

  Comics

  7 letters

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

• "Public Enemies"

  Johnny Depp may be the sexiest gangster ever in Michael Mann's stylish, brutal heist movie

  By Stephanie Zacharek

  Arts & Entertainment

  34 letters

• Plundering the oceans

  Overfishing continues at a shocking rate, as countries break one environmental promise after another

  By Katharine Mieszkowski

  Environment & Science

  84 letters

• Gay men go to hell

  "God Says No" author James Hannaham talks about religious repression, life in the closet -- and sex in the bathroom

  By Sarah Hepola

  Books

  36 letters

• Better world, or waste of time?

  I volunteer but don't enjoy it

  By Cary Tennis

  Life

  29 letters

• It's time to stand up for homemade potato salad

  Come on, people, it's not that hard to make. Do you really think we can't tell the difference?

  By Garrison Keillor

  Opinion

  100 letters

• "I Hate Valentine's Day"

  Nia Vardalos' big fat romantic stinker shows what happens when an actress overwhelms her own movie

  By Stephanie Zacharek

  Arts & Entertainment

  29 letters

• The K Chronicles

  Michael Jackson memories

  By Keith Knight

  Comics

  8 letters

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