Apple Talk
To the Editor:
On behalf of all us here in Germantown, thanks
to those from Memphis and Little Rock for your comments of love and tolerance
(Letters To the
Editor, October 18th issue), including “[Germantown is]
just another joke for the rest of us to laugh at
derisively” and “Germantown, a suburb I’d like to see burn …
.”
Like many here in Germantown, I feel our
sign ordinances and related regulations are too
stringent on occasion, but we’ve seen what’s happened to
Memphis, once known as one of America’s cleanest
cities. Drive down Summer Avenue or Winchester
Road. Most of us here in Germantown are very willing
to live with our restrictions. If newcomers like Apple
want to be viewed as good neighbors, they should too.
Otherwise, they can rent space over at the “Mall of
Murder” or in some other great Memphis neighborhood.
If you wish to use an Apple product, despite
what a clear majority of the rest of the world uses,
more power to you. But, as chronicled in a recent
Commercial Appeal article, Apple Computer came
to Germantown and acted like Mrs. Drysdale dealing with the Clampett family. I
don’t think I want a
computer product from a company whose executives
simply can’t or won’t understand the phrase “no signs
with internal illumination.”
Herbert E. Kook Jr.
Germantown
To the Editor:
Since David Dawson was so successful in
infuriating the Apple Computer apparatchiks with his
relatively innocuous article (“Sign of the Times,”
October 11th issue), I suggest goring another ox by
taking on the Confederate battle flag next.
Oops, maybe that’s not such a good idea after all.
Michael K. Jones
Memphis
Editor’s note: See page 17 for Dawson’s latest
fact-filled report from the front lines.
Liberal Dose
To the Editor:
Regarding Keith Alexander’s tirade on liberals
being the entire reason education is falling apart
in our city (Letters To the Editor, October 18th
issue): Let me use real small words. Pointing
fingers is a no-no. Regardless of where you send [your
children], it is your responsibility to instill in them
a voracity — oops, smaller word — hunger for
knowledge. Education is not just handed to you.
Public school teachers bust their humps every day
trying to control loud, uninterested, and disrespectful
students, trying to reach the handful of kids who
actually want to be there.
Considering that you’re in Southaven, you
either just want everybody to know how evil liberals are
or are just another example of white flight. Maybe
you should consider homeschooling. Or maybe you
could vent your opinions in one of your own state’s
papers and not sully our eyes with them.
Grace Hensley
Memphis
More Sports
To the Editor:
As I do every Wednesday, I picked up a copy of
The Memphis Flyer last week during my lunch hour. I was
looking forward to reading about the University of
Memphis football team’s road win at Houston. The team
scored more points in a game since a win against Tulane ten
years ago. This followed a week in which the team beat
Southern Mississippi for the first time in eight attempts.
However, for the second week in a row, I was disappointed
to find no story about the Tigers.
I have always enjoyed reading your paper’s views on the
Tigers, and I am very excited about the Grizzlies’ move to
Memphis. In fact, I am a Grizzlies season-ticket holder. I do
feel, however, that preseason basketball stories should not take
priority two weeks in a row over big wins for the Tigers.
I hope that you will consider expanding
the sports section in order to avoid this type of
omission in the future. With the improvement of
the Tigers football team and the expected success
of John Calipari’s basketball team this season, I’m
sure there will be many weeks in which there will
be multiple worthy stories on which to report.
Ross A. Boswell
Memphis
Editor’s note: A great idea. See our newly expanded
sports section on page 14.
Correction: It was reported in last week’s issue that the
play Vanish Code was opening at TheatreWorks on October
18th. The play doesn’t open until May 30, 2002.
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