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Those people who write impassioned letters to the editor seldom read with an open mind and are usually unwilling to consider the other side's arguments. Instead, they use those arguments as a reason to be annoyed. So, in a sense, offensive writers provide exactly what their readers want--something to be insulted about...
Statements such as these seldom address the arguments being put forth. They are insulting, and they do nothing to further a reasonable discussion...
...should the rest of us, who have focused feverish attention on this story even when it required a passing knowledge of the bylaws of the U.S. Olympic Committee, have to suffer? A country lives by its myths, and seldom has there been such an opportunity for an epic to be played out in an international arena as this skate-off between Harding and Kerrigan at the Winter Games. Lately, the public has been denied closure in other morality tales: neither Bobbitt will serve time; California may never be able to cobble together a jury sufficiently unaffected by victim empathy...
...While Jake Armerding, age 15, last year joined his dad (mandolist Taylor Armerding) on stage as Northern Light's guest violinist, this year he returned as a full-time band member--his picture is even on the back of NL's great new release, Wrong Highway Blues. And The Seldom Scene have replaced long-time lead singer John Starling with the youngish Moondi Kline...
...Seldom Scene continued to try to sabatoge their collective amazing picking style and mournful harmonies with painfully stupid comments--at one point, when his microphone drooped over in his stand, mandolist John Duffy muttered, "Must have seen Lorena...