Letters to the Editor
Gams on Glass
Published Letters: 309 Editor's Choice: 6
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janinedm and in General
[Read the article: Quarter of Clinton supporters would vote McCain over Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]janinedm: NO one ever said SC didn't count because of the high percentage of black voters. They may have suggested it was an early primary. You are reconstituting facts to validate your race-based voting alignment. If you want to vote for Obama, please do so, but your sado-masochistic racialisation scheme is deleterious towards those around you.
More generally, Obama supporters have been saying they would NEVER vote for Clinton all over the place, and Obama tried to play this up as a reason to vote for him; it is inane blackmail as impetus. I am an Obama donor, albeit for a measly few hundred, but even I can see he is no less an adept schemer and politician. In fact, with a nod aside to Clinton's horseshittery with Iraq, so similar are the candidates that we have proof positive that Democrats are no more objective than the goons who put Bush in because he was a 'good guy.' No fair-minded person would vote for one of these and not the other.
I actually hope is Clinton does not garner a significant win tonight she does drop out (and the same were the position reversed). We need some months to quell the rancorous Jacobinism in our midst.
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Horny and inspired
[Read the article: Could I quit the drinking but keep the hangovers? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]hangovers can definately increase sexual desire, and potency. My theory is that the alcohol has usppressed many things in your body, including the neuroreceptors involved in sex, but also testosterone levels. As you sober up slowly, the testosterone level springs to compensate and BOOM, off you go.
As I have gotten older that is far LESS true, probably because one's natural levels of testosterone are slightly lower and the body no longer quite geared toward such voluminous testosterone production.
Similarly, while I once enjoyed some hangover days -- my friends and I used to call it 'space-brain' -- a feeling somewhere between spacey-high and clear-minded -- I now find I don't. When I do drink, I get drunk and more hazy in my recollection, and the mornings are crap.
LW, your problem with hangover's being an inspiration will end naturally as you age. Enjoy it while you can, if you like, but avoid becoming any manner of full-blown alcoholic. I think, like cigarettes, booze is probably best slowly weened away from once the excesses of youth are done. Hard to do if you like drinking as much as I (and you) do, but something to keep in mind.
Note to Those In Recovery: While I understand you may identify what you see as binge and alcoholic behaviour in some of the writers here, methodically preaching "Get help NOW" does not help. You appear somewhat grating and deterministic to others, and while I understand many in recovery feel the need to reach out to others in whom they see some of their behaviours, unfortunately it comes across poorly, or, even snooty and superior.. even if you have a sad or witty anecdote to accompany it. It seems a bit like having someone tell you how to raise you children, or other well-known irksome matters.
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Janine
[Read the article: Quarter of Clinton supporters would vote McCain over Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The overt attempt on the part of some of the more aggressed members of Obama's coterie, to racialise is evident (e.g. the 25% don't want a black man as president.. good ridance). Moreover, I don't recall anyone saying black voter turnout for Obama 'didn't matter', although there was a supposition on the part of Hillary, when asked, that this was to be expected and fine in such 'an historic election.' ... as you noted, in Louisiana. If you can explain how that 'marginalizes' anyone, I'd like to hear home
However, I DO recall quite clearly that Jesse Jackson Jr came out after the NH primary and said that Hillary's supposed tears had to "be looked at very closely especially in light of Katrina," where apparently she didn't cry. Moreover, it needed to be looked at, becasue SC was approaching "where black voters are 45% of the voting population." THAT, my friend, is how to racially polarize.
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Restroom ARE nasty
[Read the article: The ornery pride of the political journalist]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't know... while your points about the press are right, I have to say forcing someone to work in a public lavatory is not only stupid, but low-brow and degrading. I would surely quit my job were I posted to a lavatory. If need be, one could create an office out of wide basement hallways... how about putting up section blockers to at least close off the urinals... not that this would be any more sanitary.
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SNL
[Read the article: Women ARE funny. And foxy!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'll say this once: NO ONE... NO ONE at all is funny on Saturday NIght Live, a crap show which has done more than any other to destroy American humor through its trite and poorly sculpted sketch scenes. Yes, occasionally, there will be something of note (Dick in a box, for example) but really, I would like to see the lot of them taken out and shot for treason and irritating.
Chelsea Handler is god awful. Sedaris is funny though.
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As a sometime addict
[Read the article: Understanding Heath Ledger's death]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"An accidental overdose of prescribed medicines is the presumed cause of death. Ledger's toxicology report revealed that he had ingested two sleep medications (Restoril and Unisom), two potent narcotics (oxycodone and hydrocodone) and two tranquilizers (Valium and Xanax). The dosages, not documented, were enough to kill him."
Shall I repeat over and over. The above is clearly a case of high parody. I read half the article waiting for some sort of punchline. Allow me to illuminate you: There is no such thing as an accidental overdose of oxycontin, hydrocodone, valium and xanax. He was getting ripped on pills.
Glenn G. usually spends his time critiquing the media although perhaps a slow afternoon might make him note the media's over-polite adoption of the 'plot' provided.
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mad cartoonist
[Read the article: Understanding Heath Ledger's death]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you are right! but are you Don Martin or Sergio WhatsHisName?
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Caniboid
[Read the article: Understanding Heath Ledger's death]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I feel the same way about crack. Pain? Gone. Worries? What the fack did you say?
The only difference is the size of the glass pipe. Well, that, and in lieu of less nausea, there is more. Alot more.