Letters

BUGS ARE NOT VEGAN DEAR MERCURY—In Chad Simmons’ letter he said, “most of the world is forced to eat meat because that’s all they have access to” [“Duck, Duck…,” Letters, June 5]. Most of the world eats rice and bugs, has no running water, and sleeps on dirt. Go visit a Third World country. Sherman […]

SCIENTOLOGISTS DON’T TIP DEAR MERCURY—Barbara Hogan’s letter crying about Ann [Romano]’s treatment of Scientology demonstrates everything that’s wrong with Americans and the supposed nature of political correctness [Letters, May 29, in reference to ongoing Scientology coverage in One Day at a Time]. No one’s protected from words, no one should be. Playing the victim-hood card […]

WHAT THE KOOKS SAY DEAR MERCURY—When Ann Romano writes about my church, the Church of Scientology, she sounds just like the Anonymous guys [One Day at a Time, ongoing]. They picket outside my church, yelling insults at us when we walk in, wearing masks making them look like terrorists. They say my church will attack them!!! My […]

IT’S “HO” DEAR MERCURY—How unfortunate it is that Mr. [Eli] Sanders didn’t talk to the Obama supporter who told me to take off the pantsuit and close my legs [“Among the (White) People,” News, May 15, in which the author attends a rally for Hillary Clinton]. How unfortunate he didn’t talk to the Obama supporter standing across the street […]

MY OPINION IS DIFFERENT FROM YOURS! TO THE EDITOR—The Mercury‘s endorsement of Steve Novick is misguided [The Election Issue, May 1]. It is Oregon House Speaker Jeff Merkley who is rising in the polls and has the momentum, not Steve Novick. He engineered victories in 2006 that ended 16 years of Republican rule. And, under […]

YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE DEAR MERCURY—Although the public blood sacrifice of your interns was a bit harsh, it did seem to satisfy the weather gods, and bring about spring as promised. Let me know if a memorial fund is being established, I’ll gladly contribute. Heat Miser UP ‘TIL NOW HELLO—I just read Matt Davis’ article […]

I SWEAR I DON’T CARE DEAR MERCURY—Okay, that does it. Your news is laughable, you pander to the basest, cheapest cross-section of the local population, and I don’t even care enough to list a third element of your multi-faceted worthlessness. Imagine my surprise to find big sappy apologies all over the last issue to Thomas […]

WRONG AND RIGHT PORTLAND MERCURY—You made my week. Well, first you fucked up my week, when Ann Romano’s column mentioned the story of Thomas Beatie as gossip, referred to him as “she” several times, and then called him “Mr. Potato Head” in reference to choices he had made about his body [One Day at a […]

A PREGNANT PAUSE DEAR MERCURY—I know the Mercury loves its in-your-face, edgy, un-PC voice. But Ann Romano took it way too far last week in her commentary on Thomas Beatie and HIS pregnancy [“One Day at a Time,” April 10]. So here’s some education for you, Ann, so you can hopefully avoid making such a […]

FREEDOM TO RECORD PORTLAND MERCURY—Kudos on your news story “Big Brother’s Little Brother” [News, April 3, in which a citizen journalist/videographer was cited by the police]. The other local news outlets have a journalistic responsibility to cover this story, but again congratulations to the Mercury for breaking it.  Clement Sobotka BEGGING TO DIFFER TO THE […]

SLAVE TO THE DETAILS DEAR MERCURY—[Bruce] Springsteen’s original guitar is a Tele with an Esquire neck, so it shouldn’t say “Telecaster” on the headstock of your cover illustration [Cover, March 27]. Otherwise, thank you Ezra Ace Caraeff for writing a great piece on the Boss [“The Cult of the Boss,” Feature, March 27] and not […]

VULVEENA: IT’S THE CHEESIEST DEAR SIRS, MADAMS, AND KIDS—In Ms. Romano’s column [One Day at a Time], she consistently misidentifies that which is viewed under the skirt of a panty-less tinsel-tart as a vaheena; to wit, a vagina. What she sees, and unfortunately what we see on TMZ, is a vulva. But as she is […]