Letters to the Editor
Silenced
Published Letters: 1358 Editor's Choice: 75
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Is this Abu Ghraibish for Salon to cover, Joan?
[Read the article: When winning is still losing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From today's LA Times
SAN FRANCISCO -- -- As many as one in six deaths of California prison inmates last year might have been preventable, according to a study of medical care in 32 state lockups that will be used to help rebuild the troubled system.
One inmate, who reported extreme chest pains in the middle of the night, died of a heart ailment after waiting eight hours to see a doctor.
Another who complained for days of severe abdominal pain died of acute pancreatitis after medical staff did not believe his pleas were credible.
A third died after a two-year delay in diagnosis of his testicular cancer.
And an asthma patient died after failing to receive steroid medication for two days following transfer from a county jail.
We have a random death penalty in California without any due process at all.
This is essentially Gray Davis' fault. This prison system became this bad because Gray Davis and his accomplice Susan Kennedy consciously and deliberately DECIDED not to do anything at all to try to fix it.
It boils my blood that your attention to prisoner abuse is so completely determined by politics and so completely undetermined by anything resembling any real concern at all for basic human rights.
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Hey but what about caregivers for adults?
[Read the article: Are working moms the enemy?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't have children to care for but I do have adults. I have one disabled adult in my house who needs a lot of help and supervision and three more disabled adults in my life who don't live with me but still have a lot of need for my attention and guidance.
Sheesh whatever happened to simple ordinary empathy? I guess it's not political enough. Everything today is about politics.
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The next export I predict will by le gym
[Read the article: Exporting fatness]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The last time I lived in Paris I noticed there was nowhere to work out. That was really aggravating.
I learned how French people used to keep the weight off. The cafes don't serve fast food. Anywhere you'd get food, you'd have to sit and wait for it. In a French cafe for lunch you'll get a little piece of meat and a little piece of bread and a little glass of wine. Then you have to walk or take the Metro everywhere, because who wants to drive in Paris? Then you go food shopping, and you'd have to go to a different store for every single kind of food. Then the food is sold in such a state of immediate perfect ripeness and freshness, that it doesn't last until the next day, so you have to go shopping EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Yes you'll be thin if you work for a living and have to stop at five different stores on foot every night after work to put together dinner.
Now that they have fast food and the supermarche, they're going to need to start building somewhere to work out.
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So we've gone from depressing to ghoulish
[Read the article: Hey, senators, condemn this]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]American society is now reading like some ghoulish dark satire of American society.
It's hard to say anything more about this war after this.
How could any fictional social satire top the reality we're living in today?
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Lying is what John Walters always recommends
[Read the article: Should I tell my kids about all the drugs I used to do?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can see how we got into Iraq. If lying is okay in drug policy, then why not run foreign policy that way, too?
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In my opinion it's Asperger's at work
[Read the article: Is Star Simpson's "fake bomb" just an art jacket?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]MIT is the other big Asperger's school aside from Caltech.
It's so typical of some young genius with Asperger's not to realize that normal people might feel frightened to death by seeing someone wear this weird thing in the airport.
Some kind of autism counselor needs to take this girl aside and teach her about that strange human social custom called "being considerate of the feelings of other human beings."
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@wires
[Read the article: Is Star Simpson's "fake bomb" just an art jacket?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So you blame people for their own fear?
How are normal people supposed to know exactly what is a bomb and exactly what isn't?
It's really nasty to blame people for feeling afraid of something they don't understand, something that looks TO THEM, in their own limited understanding, like it could be a bomb
Look up "empathy" in your favorite dictionary and meditate on the word for a while.
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Wow the letters column is very telling
[Read the article: Is Star Simpson's "fake bomb" just an art jacket?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sure everyone here can spell "empathy" but I wonder how many are able to feel it?
Not for yourself and people like you -- but for those normal people who aren't at all like you.
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@brickbat
[Read the article: Is Star Simpson's "fake bomb" just an art jacket?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Would you mind telling my why you just verbally abused me?
I'd like to know why out of all the possible responses you decided to go with verbal violence.
I'd like to study you, if you don't mind. I'd like to study an abusive person who thinks I deserved to be abused because I expressed an opinion that makes him feel challenged.
So what exactly made you choose such a violent reply?
Do you think I will feel intmidated and ashamed enough to change my whole outlook on the world and forget all of the peer-reviewed, published science that I've learned about cannabis?
Or do you do this just for your own for pleasure?
I'm very interested, so please tell me what's going on inside that angry, abusive, demeaning, dehumanizing, violent, insulting, intimidating head of yours.
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Well it's pretty clear
[Read the article: Is Star Simpson's "fake bomb" just an art jacket?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]People here can spell empathy but they have not a frigging clue how to use it.
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Conservatives should be ashamed to make arguments like this
[Read the article: Condors vs. the NRA]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Along with hunting groups like Gun Owners of California, they argue that efforts to restrict hunters' use of lead bullets in the condors' range are nothing less than the first shots in a battle to ban hunting in California altogether.
So conservatives don't have faith in democracy or rule of law?
They're arguing that we can't make a small law because the small law will automatically mushroom out of control into a much bigger law.
That's an insult to rule of law and democracy. Conservatives should hang their heads in shame for making arguments like this.