Letters to the Editor
burlydee
Published Letters: 282 Editor's Choice: 7
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It is Different Now than 10 Years Ago
[Read the article: "The Trap"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think the situation people in Gen Y face is incredibly different from what Gen Xers faced, and sadly, we are less prepared to face it.
I'm a law student at a prestigious midwestern public university. I went to an even more prestigious private undergraduate university. I am drowning in debt. To the person who got a professional degree with only $20,000 in debt, I don't know how you did it. I don't want to live high on the hog, or buy an iphone - i want health insurance and maybe a car. I worked for five years between the time i graduated from undergrad to the time i decided to go to law school and i made NOTHING. All my money went to feed basic needs and pay my student loans. I worked 50-60 hr weeks and never received a penny of overtime. I thought if I went to a public law school, i could keep cost down and get a public law job i wanted. Wrong. Even with a full scholarship and no health insurance I'm still losing $20,000 a year.
The trap has changed. Now with even hard work I'm not promised a good job. I can get a JD from a top flight school and still make less than I did before I went to law school. Who is going to speak out about middle-class working conditions when you could lose your job and with it, everything you own. People in America don't have personal lives anymore. Everything is professional. You are expected to work 50-60 hrs a week, not have any vices, never take a day off, work-work-work, with no job security, no savings, with no light at the end of the tunnel. No wonder so many in my generation are obsessed with Paris and reality tv shows. Its escape. I'm pissed off and tired all day at work, I'm too fatigued for that anger when I get home.
Its a depressing existence - and a dangerous path to be on. Cynicism led us to the administration we have today. most of us are too busy to care. Money isn't happiness - we need to slow down.
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Open Left Post
[Read the article: Is the GOP political platform contrary to Catholic teaching?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you haven't read Glenn's post at Open Left I suggest you go read it. Truly one of the more insightful posts Glenn has produced.
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Please get this Harry Potter Crap Off the Front Page of Salon
[Read the article: Goodbye, Harry Potter]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]War in Iraq, the strong possiblity of war with Iran, King George's dismantling of the constitution, ongoing crisis in New Orleans ... please Salon, take Harry Potter off the front page. i don't care. i don't care. i don't care. i haven't read one of the books. but i live in this country, and that is something we all should care about.
and another thing, it like you guys are trying to ruin the book for the fans. they don't need a review. if you read the last 6 books, i think you are probably going to read this one.
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The UN Can't Help
[Read the article: Moral hazard]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No one can. No one can get us out of this quagmire. We dug our own grave, and now we have to lie in it. Not pleasant, but reality.
Alas, some of the responses to this article have been amazingly dumb. If you don't have the attention span to read more than 2 paragraphs, you should probably not be too proud to admit that.
Realname - the idea that the UN is dominated by Arab states is so dumb it can't be put into words.
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I Envy Us - a response
[Read the article: Michelle Malkin's hate sites]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn was pointing out the hypocrisy of Malkin and O'Reilly claiming that Jet Blue should drop its sponsorship of YKos because of a few choice quotes on DKos, when they are on air, with sponsors, and their sites have language that is even more vile.
I don't think Glenn was attempting to hold Malkin responsible for the quotes on her site...
But i'll do that for him. She encourages people to come to that site and recite the most vial, racist things. She caters to their needs. Their fears. Constantly worried about the other. What is amazing about those sites is that they rarely speak of policy issues. It is mostly an us v. them mentality - we need to be tough, and kill the terrorists, and love your country and other tripe like that.
The open hypocrisy of our media figures is often breathtaking to watch.