To the Editor:

It is exciting to see the Tenderloin begin to get the recognition it deserves . . . and to see it finally get some good press.

Ira Dorter
San Francisco



To the Editor:

Good article except you forget one thing. Jerry Seinfeld's shows have always been about making fun of people. The only difference here is that it is a real person who you see and feel for. In Seinfeld the people were characters, but the humor was the same.

David Dimenstein
Worcester, MA



To the Editor:

I see you don't like The Marriage Ref. A real story is that Jerry Seinfeld more than likely "borrowed" this idea from the Sidetaker website. This show is a carbon copy of Sidetaker. Tom Papa even uses the old Sidetaker slogan "Who's right and who's wrong?" Jerry says he "created the idea" he should have said "I'm rich, greedy, been out of TV for 12 years, pretty much own NBC so I took the idea from Sidetaker to create this show."

What a scum bag!!! He says he "came up" with the idea on his own, what a lie! He came up with the idea 2 months after the New York Post did a 2 page story on Sidetaker. The Sidetaker website first debuted back in Sept. 2008; the Marriage Ref "idea" came out by Jerry last summer. And as most people know, Seinfeld lives in New York City so either he or his wife read the NYPost story. The truth needs to be told about The Marriage Ref. Please do your research on Sidetaker, then write another article on the truth about Jerry Seinfeld's show.

Nick M.
Jacksonville, FL



To the Editor:

I could care less about the stereotypes and the ethnic makeup of the "contestants." I WILL agree that the show is just not funny. I have come to the conclusion that Seinfeld is a very good comedic actor, but his schtick as a comedian just gets old quick.

Mark Simons
Martinez, CA



To the Editor:

Thanks for the analysis. I don't watch this show, but it is a shame that Seinfeld and his friends feel the need to give superficial criticism to people who aren't as well off. Despite The Great Recession, poor people are more or less invisible on the airwaves. Instead, we have Gossip Girl, 90210 (The Next Generation), and a new one called "High Society."

Kevin Bard
San Francisco



To the Editor:

I found out at the MTA meeting last night that MUNI has been ticketing riders whose transfers run out while they are still riding on the bus!!! What do they expect one to do, get up and go to the front and pay again? The crowd became a little unruly over this one.

Terrrie Frye
San Francisco



To the Editor:

I agree with most points in this article, yet I find the usage of the word "schizophrenic" to be a disablist usage. I would have been happier with the word "contradictory" instead of using a psychiatric term that I feel describes my medical condition. Of course, it is important to distinguish between those who are mislabeled in order to create greater profits for the pharmaceutical industry versus those who actually have a psychiatric disorder. The latter do exist, and I am one of them. We mentally ill people often get offended when the term "bipolar" and "schizophrenic" are used too casually, to describe normal human idiosyncrasies. Real mental illness isn't a stroll on the beach, and I don't choose to have it.

Jack Bragen
Martinez, CA



To the Editor:

I do see, when I walk, a lot of the blue placards. Too many to be true. That is truly a loss of revenue and a loophole somewhere. We should make people pay whether disable or not when they use a vehicle. Using a vehicle is very taxing to our city, just stand at Pine/Leavenworth looking West, or at Leavenworth/Bush looking East, or anywhere on Van Ness, or 19th Avenue, etc., it is just a sea of cars. The city is choking. Many of the people I know are totally normal, work as I do, still they have blue placards. Disability is abused as far as the eye can see. Sometime I think just having a car is a form of disability in itself. Sometimes we must make sacrifices. People with disability can't buy a car or gas for free. They owed to pay their parking. Since issuing blue placards is blatantly corrupt, we must end the practice.

Nafiss Griffis
San Francisco



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