Letters to the Editor
Amerigo
Published Letters: 955 Editor's Choice: 60
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Rules is rules
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All sports have rules, the main purpose of which is to ensure fair competition, which in turn ensures the maximum entertainment for spectators.
These rules may be extremely technical, as in motor racing, a matter of honor, as in golf, a question of dictating what size bat you may use in baseball, or they may pertain to what medications you are allowed to use while training or have in your body at the time of competition.
Either you play by the rules, or you are a cheat. If Barry Bonds, to name someone at random, uses steroids to make himself stronger, then that is no different from Tiger Woods improving his lie in the rough, or some NASCAR driver using a fuel with secret additives.
If a sport wants to allow any and all drugs to be used, then that is fine and dandy, but the sport should be open and honest about that fact.
Supposing the Olympic Games, for example, decides to have two categories for each event, with two sets of medals awarded, one for drug assisted endeavors, and the other for drug-free competition. Will this now satisfy those who want performance enhancing drugs legalized?
The US teams with huge armies of physicians and scientists will be able to compete in one category, and poorer nations in the other.
I am quite sure that the marathon would be immeasurably more exciting if the runner were linked to their pace cars by intravenous lines pumping in liquids and nutrients. A tight finish would be a real battle of science, and if a few athletes died, well, so what? The public would love it.
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Thanks...
[Read the article: How can I help my friend get over losing his girlfriend?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks to the Age Difference Police for getting on this case so quickly.
But has no one noticed that men of 40 are not middle-aged any more. When I was a young person, men of 40 wore coats and ties and one pair of shoes lasted a lifetime. Now they have been juvenilized and you only have to look at William Bradley "Brad" Pitt to see an example of a man well into his 40's who looks, acts, and dresses like a college boy as his newest inamorata leads him around by the nose.
And the women. She is 23. Like a large proportion of American women, she has had a child before the age of 21. Once you have a child, all ages are equalized, because being responsible for another person is the same whatever age you are.
But I digress. This young woman will not come back. "Needing space" is a well-known euphemism for wanting out of a relationship. It has nothing to do with space, physical or metaphysical, as commonly known. Nor is she planning to become an astronaut.
What he needs is... der, der... A NEW PUPPY, or in this case a new girlfriend. If the news has got out that he is newly single, and that there is a spare kid's bedroom in his house, he will soon be besieged with lonely women who are willing to take over the empty space in his nest.
So introduce him to more people, advertise his singlehood from the rooftops, then stand back and applaud his choice of a new partner.
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Colorblindness...
[Read the article: How can I help my friend get over losing his girlfriend?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Having spent nearly my life married to or in relationships with persons of a different color, all I can say is that it is simply true that after a while you just see your partner as who they are and don't pay any attention to their ethnicity or skin color. You are more concerned about whether they remembered to put out the trash, feed the dog, call the plumber, etc.
Of course, if you are looking for a new partner, then that is quite a different matter and your refractometer is turned back on.
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Hot chocolate...
[Read the article: The artful seducer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Quite frankly I would prefer a cup of hot chocolate to having sex with the majority of female Salonistas, so I can understand very well what Anonymous is saying.
I am also sick and tired of hearing from nice guys who can't get laid, finish last, etc. Obviously they are not nice enough.
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Seduction school videos
[Read the article: The artful seducer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was just watching on YouTube an interesting series of 5 videos of a UK Channel 4 documentary that takes three shy men with body image problems (one very tall, one very short, and the other obese) who are taken in hand by a pair of US seduction experts and learn how to pick up women. Dare I say it, it is quite heartwarming and worth looking at. Look for Seduction School Part 1/5
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The Importance of Being Edwards
[Read the article: The burden of being John Edwards]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, of course when we have a situation when a young black man in California is still more likely to attend a state prison than a state university, and when the US still has a massive 25% of all the world's prisoners, mostly black and brown, then race is still a huge issue in this country, like it or not.
Edwards isn't black or female, but he IS a Southerner, and recent general elections have tended to go along the route of as the South goes, so goes the US.