Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 257 Editor's Choice: 33
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The old showers issue
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Being a gay man myself I think the whole showering thing is a lot of paranoia.
Gay men have been showering and changing clothes with straight men all their lives. It's no big deal. Straight men don't have this situation with women, they think they would be out of control if they did. I think that is overestimating their sex drive. I've been places where nudism was permitted and showers were coed and no man, gay or straight acted noticiably different in the presence of naked people.
Yes, we check out other guys, but we do that when they are dressed too. Gay men are almost always discreet about it, if the guy is straight. Straight men, on the other hand feel free to look at and flirt with women, sometimes agressively.
Yeah, and finally, willing sex partners abound, especially if you are a handsome athelete so there is no need to get all hot and bothered about your straight teammate.
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If you want a plate of nostalgia...
[Read the article: Ciao, cookbooks!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Then a cookbook is a good place to find it but if you are more concerned with pleasing the people eating, rather than the person cooking, all that information can be obtained easier and more quickly on line. Of course you have to know something about searching the web, how to find a reliable website and how to weed through the glut of results but these are skills people will need to learn more and more to search for any sort of information. I have two shelves of cookbooks which I once used frequently but now, nearly every night I go to the Internet and the cookbooks just accumulate dust.
Although people will continue to read books for entertainment, electronic media will replace print for reference purposes and maybe even one day portable computer screens will replace the book or magazine or newspaper we read in the park, or on the train or in the bathroom.
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Not the same thing
[Read the article: Rain forests, they come, they go]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Slash and burn is a method some tribal societies used to clear land for agriculture. Although it produced some local pollution, it did not have the far ranging effects that modern methods of destroying forests do. Modern methods clear forests at a rate no slash-and-burn method could and produce world-wide effects on the environment.
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Feed the poor
[Read the article: Can Mike Huckabee out-charm the GOP big three?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's one thing to say you want to help the poor, provide medical care for children, support the elderly and help victims of natural disasters. I believe that even Republicans want to do those things, but they don't want to make the hard economic decisions. Social justice means a redistribultion of wealth (taxes) and redirecting funds away from our futile efforts to control the middle east and towards a commitment to build a better society here in the USA. Quite frankly, the social conservative talk scares me a lot more than the social justice talk impresses me.
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So answer the question already
[Read the article: Don't be black on my account]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What the child wanted to know is why some people have brown skin and some people have white skin. That's pretty easy to explain, considering the whole differentiation happened thousands of years ago with no social and political baggage. Kind of reminds me of the kid who asked where he came from, the father went into a long talk about "the birds and the bees" and finally the kind said, Johnny says he comes from Albany, I wanted to know where I came from.
Just knowing there are different races is enough for a three year old. Soon enough he will come up with the more complex issues of race relations. Then it is time to tell him. But I do have to say, hiding the culture, especially the food, seems strange. Most Americans have some ethic identity and teaching that to their children is a normal and healthy thing.
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Its all about hypocricy
[Read the article: Porn free]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You can be gay and conservative if you are a conservative of the libertarian variety or one who shares the economic ideas of the republican party. What the current administration, and pundits like Coulter and Limbaugh have done is make social conservativism, the so called "family values", a cornerstone of their policy and have used it well to win elections.
I don't object to people being conservative, what I object to is throwing some people in jail for smoking marijuana, while forgiving a former user of hard drugs enough to later elect him president or proposing a federal amendment to ban gay marriage and put the children of gay couples at disadvantage while the vice president's daughter prepares to raise a child with her partner, it's going after some purveyors of porn while keeping a stash of it in your closet. Most obviously enthusiastically supporting the military which will not let you stay because of who you have sex with.
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Yeah, right...
[Read the article: What an anti-Giuliani ad should say]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Like Republicans care about what a labor union says! IMHO, Giuliani is the least objectionable of the Republicans, let's not attack the front runners so someone like Huckabee can sneak in.
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Hasn't anyone noticed
[Read the article: I'm dying to be a musician]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]LW isn't interested in music, he's interested in being a musician because he thinks it's cool.
My simple answer is, get an instument, take lessons or don't take lessons, but play that instrument every chance you get. If you get tired of it quickly, you'll never be a professional. To be really great at something you need to be somwhat obessed with it, not obesessed with yourself.
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Why the Dems won in '06
[Read the article: Setting Democrats up for failure]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Majority Leader Tom Daschle says his party took back Congress in November because "voters were looking for more civility and more cooperation between Republicans and Democrats. There have been moments when this has happened,"
What planet is he living on? The Democrats took back Congress because the public is sick and tired of the War in Iraq and Bush has no great accomplishment he can point to that balances out that collosal mistake.
America has no great love of the Democrats, but if they can cast themselves as the stern judges of a unethical, illegal and downright mean administration and restore respectability to the country they will go far.