Letters to the Editor
Leeandra Nolting
Published Letters: 434 Editor's Choice: 18
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I'm with you on this, Allie...
[Read the article: From shortcake to tart]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I thought the original Strawberry Shortcake dolls were hideous and frightening as well. The updated one at least somewhat resembles a human child.
And saying her outfit's been slutted up? Where is Amy Benfer from? Saudi Arabia?
Anyone else remember the Rose Petal Dolls? I had a couple of those but never really played with them. They were the other big toy company's response to Strawberry Shortcake. They (literally) stunk to high heaven too.
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not saying that these pharmacies are good...
[Read the article: Pro-life pharmacies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...or that I support their stance, but let's clear up a few things.
1. Pharmacists are not just drug dispensers bound by law to fill any and all prescriptions. They go through a rigorous training program, comparable to med school. A practical reason for getting your medicines from a pharmacist instead of directly from your doctors is ADVERSE DRUG INTERACTION. If Joe Blow is prescribed Drug A by Doctor #1 for kidney stones and Drug B by Doctor #2 for heart disease, and the pharmacist knows these two drugs, taken together, will cause Joe Blow to go into a coma, the pharmacist should not dispense those drugs in that combo.
2. Viagra and the Pill are not male/female equivalents of each other. Viagra treats impotence. If you're a guy and you can't get it up, your reproductive system is not functioning as it should. Female fertility is not a medical problem--if you're a woman of the right age range and can become pregnant, that's a sign that physiologically things are as they should be. Now, if the pharmacy was stocking Viagra and refusing to stock K-Y Jelly, or if it were stocking male hormonal birth control but refusing to stock female, then you'd have a sexism case.
BTW, I'm also aware that the Pill can be used to treat a lot of things that have nothing to do with birth control...
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a high fever will do the same thing...
[Read the article: Confessions of a salvia eater]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Never used salvia or other hallucinogens, never felt the desire.
However, I did run a lot of very high fevers whenever I got sick as a kid--I'd go from being well to running a 104-105 degree fever within a couple of hours. I'd go to bed to try to sleep (though I would not be able to fall asleep until my usual bedtime) and usually the fever would break during the night and I'd wake up feeling well, if weak, exhausted, and soaked in sweat. Once I ran a fever of that height for four or five days--I had a raging ear infection--before the doctor prescribed antibiotics that cleared up the infection and then the fever broke.
Anyway, all the weird-ass shit Pollack describes is comparable to stuff I "saw" when sick--the wood grain in the door came alive and vines and foxes and things came out of it, the Indian lady on a clock at the babysitter's house started talking to me, the carpet started growing, etc. I tried to tell my folks about this, but they were convinced that I was just dreaming. But I WAS AWAKE the whole time. I watched the second hand go around on the clock for five minutes while the lady on it was talking, and I could hear the babysitter's TV in the other room go from "Days of Our Lives" to commerical break and back to "Days," meaning I wasn't just dreaming five minutes had passed.
Anyway, it would be interesting to know what exact part of the brain salvia works on.
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in all fairness...
[Read the article: "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I read some of the books back in the 1980s and got them from the school library. (At that time, there were only Kirsten, Samantha, and Molly). They weren't my favorite books of all time, but I did enjoy them and a lot of classmates did too. None of us had the AG dolls and I wasn't even aware such things existed until much later.
The AG dolls and accessories are way too expensive, but just because you buy your daughter an $87 doll does not mean you have to spring for the other stuff as well. And Target sells knockoffs as well--if little Madison complains, explain the difference between $29 and $87. She wants more dresses for it--give her some fabric and tell her to make some! She wants furniture for it--that's what cereal boxes are for!
And anyone who thinks that little girls will ONLY act out what's in the books has never seen little girls play with dolls for a long period of time. Sheesh. Do little boys playing with He-Man or Ninja Turtles ONLY re-enact the plot of yesterday's cartoon?