Letters to the Editor
carrrie
Published Letters: 193 Editor's Choice: 8
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@thingswesaid
[Read the article: The abortion doctor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]AKA head of bone, heart of stone. Continue to fairy tell yourself so that you can sleep at night. I asked you why you weren't preventing child murder everywhere because you are the one who insisted you COULD NOT LEAVE PEOPLE ALONE WHILE THEY MURDER THEIR CHILDREN. Actually the opposite turns out to be true. Do admit you are a ridiculous individual of weak character with virtually no insight and no right to judge other's life-impacting decisions and that said decisions do not involve you in the least. And no, we are not discussing elder abuse or kidney transplants and most on this thread are aware of that. You would be a poor protector of children as your husband had to instruct you: "Please do not take our children to Planned Parenthood to protest abortion." Do I understand that correctly? If true, you are utterly hopeless.
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Kitchengirl
[Read the article: Remembering Heath Ledger]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks again.
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responsibility
[Read the article: Remembering Heath Ledger]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't really think that this is a River Phoenix/Elvis Presley kind of thing. I think this is a guy-who-wanted-to-sleep-very-badly kind of thing. If you go go into a mine because you are a miner and the mine caves in on you, you are partially responsible because you knew the risks and (hopefully) no one put a gun to your head and made you go in there. But if someone said to you before you went into the mine, there's a good chance that's gonna cave in on you and you'll be history, you probably wouldn't go in there.
Doctors don't usually prescribe medicine telling you it can be deadly. They may mildly warn you to be cautious and not take too much, but not the real danger. After reading in Newseek and Slate that drugs like Xanax and Ambien don't induce sleep, they induce unconsciousness which can lead to coma which can lead to respiratory failure, I wondered if any doctor actually said those words to him. I have epilepsy and have been seeing doctors and taking different meds since I was 14 and am now 48. I have had plenty of adverse reactions to medications, one of which I took for about 30 years. No doctor ever said that it was the medication that was not good, just my body's reaction to it. Yes, HL made the decision to take these medications and should have made it his business to know the dangers. But doctors, pharmacists and pharmaceutical companies bear some responsibility too. Yes, they give you a huge handout that would takes eons to read with a magnifying glass. You can talk to the pharmacist and the pill bottles have warnings on them, but would it be so horrible if an actual human being provided loud and clear information to another that might actually save his life?
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big difference
[Read the article: Don't be happy, worry]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]between clinical depression which is what Scathew is describing and situational or temporary depression which is what most people have. 10 years ago I was in a horrid marriage, had health problems, had children with health problems, had money problems and I took antidepressants. They made me happy about everything. I remember seeing the movie Blast from the Past and being incredibly enthusiastic about it, ridiculously so. Anyway, 10 years later, am out of the marriage, have the same kids just older now, have the same crappy job and I'm not on antidepressants at all, nothing like it. I get a little lonely sometimes to be honest, but I'm not depressed and anxious like I was, or worried all the time about what people think of me.
I just did a few things like quit banging my head against the wall trying to be perfect and having things that not only can I not afford, (like cars and houses), I don't really need. I'm not kidding. Having a house is lots o' work that you do when you're done w/your real work, and I do miss having a car and may yet get one, but so far PT is working fine. One of my biggest health problems turned out to be a medication I was taking for epilepsy. Now they have a new one that is not a depressant, so to the drug companies, I am grateful for that. The weird thing is I had to find out about it from my neurologist. They never advertised it on TV, tho it has been life-changing.
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this is a review
[Read the article: "Over Her Dead Body"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]i can definitely get behind. the movie looks horrid. Also, sorry I doubted you about TWBB. I didn't see it, but upon reflection I don't think I'd like it. Can't win.
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maybe she's grossed out
[Read the article: I get grossed out when I hear, "I'm a mom!"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]because people who giggle "I'm a mom," come off as sort of smug and self-satisfied as if this is an honor for only a chosen few. It's really not so unusual, and it's been going on for quite some time.
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It was There Will Be Blood
[Read the article: "Over Her Dead Body"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And yes Eva Longoria does remind me of an angry rabbit, and I agree with the poster who said the movie with Matthew M looks horrible. He reminds me so much of Burt Reynolds when he was younger, just an absolute zero.
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empty-headed and ridiculous I may be
[Read the article: "Over Her Dead Body"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But I won't be sitting through 3 hours of magnolia or this piece of dreck. To see every movie ever made in order to form an opinion of it strikes me as expensive and time consuming. Enjoy every film.
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i will watch it in increments
[Read the article: "Over Her Dead Body"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]as it's on demand all the time, I refuse to lose out!