Letters to the Editor
Amerigo
Published Letters: 955 Editor's Choice: 60
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Bad video day
[Read the article: Talking to the "Leave Britney Alone!" guy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, if it is bad video day, then my chef d'oeuvre Dinner Dominican Style beats the pants off this crap.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWR_9euLBJY
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Florida numbers
[Read the article: Housing flippers of the Treasure Coast]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Florida, I speak as a resident, has a very strange pattern of immigration. Firstly we have the retirees, often from the rustbelt or New York, who move down here. They don't have school age children, but often some of their offspring move down here in a secondary migration, bringing the grandkids.
Another entirely different population is the Hispanic/Mexican/central American/illegal alien population, working mostly in construction and agriculture, which produces a lot of children in need of schooling.
I suspect that rising home prices has meant a slow down in construction, sending migrant workers and their children north. Just last week three Mexican gentlemen I know, and there families decamped to Quaker territory (Pennsylvania) to earn their oats. Others I know have headed for Indian territory (Indiana) within the last year.
The threat of impending doom when the feds start rounding up illegal workers and putting them on locked trains to Mexico is already sending further shivers through the Florida economy, and one has to assume that many winter crops that require intensive hand picking (think tomatoes, peppers, etc.) may not be planted in future years.
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Mutton dressed as lamb...
[Read the article: Demi Moore's mad as hell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If Demi Moore wants more parts for older women, then why is she trying so hard to make herself look younger? She will simply disqualify herself when central casting is looking for a 50-year-old woman.
Of course if the part in question is an older woman whose looks are fading and who uses lots of plastic surgery to try to look younger, then she will get the part. But how many times can The Demi Moore Story be filmed?
And I hate to say this, and I am not a frequent viewer of movies, but I have seen a couple that she has been in, one of those being Indecent Proposal and frankly it did not seem to me that she was much of an actress. Her acting style reminds me of Andi McDowell, or Whitney Houston, good-looking women to be sure, but never really winning over the viewer on the big screen.
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The Truth about TV
[Read the article: Should tots watch TV?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, I am probably disqualified from commenting, because I grew up without any TV at all as a child, barely watched it as a young adult, except for some big sports events like the Olympic Games or the World Cup, lived on a remote island for 12 years where there was only one (pathetic) TV channel, and never watch TV now except in Wal*Mart, the airport lounge, or occasionally in a hotel room.
But my observation is that the more moronic people are, the more they watch TV. Is this cause or effect? Who knows, but why take the risk and expose your children to it? It will do them no harm to read books instead of watching TV, and if you want to know what the weather will be like, look outside.
You see, what most people fail to notice is that the message is the medium. TV is about advertising, selling products, promoting brands. All else is secondary. Sure, to some extent it is also a medium for political propaganda, but the real TV message is that it is your patriotic duty as a citizen to consume goods, buy foods that are bad for you, drink beer, fly to far off places with palm trees, and, above all, to take a pill for every ill.
If that is what you want your children to learn about life, then strap them in front of the TV and prop their eyes open.
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Don't ask, don't tell...
[Read the article: Should I tell my new man that I used to date women?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... is the obvious maxim to apply here.
If you do tell him, there are approximately two possible scenarios.
1) He is highly amused and turned on by the revelation of your sexual past, wants to know all the details, uses your experience as as useful sexual consultancy resource etc.
2) If he is a sexually insecure person, he may be very anxious as to whether he satisfies you in the sack, and throw your lezzie past back at you any time you have a difference of opinion about whose turn it is to put out the garbage.
I suspect that many Salonistas will think that all men fall into the second scenario, but this is not actually true.
Anyhow, if you are not 100% sure that he is a scenario #1 guy, then stick to "don't ask, don't tell". Just say that you have no interest in his past relationships, and that yours are none of his business.
Obviously there are some things about past relationships that one has to reveal, especially if there are children, in-laws, family fortunes etc. involved, (or you had a relationship with your prison cellmate for several years, you might want to touch on that,)but it does not sound like this is the question here.
But all this stuff that people write here about having to know all about your past to really know you is baloney. You can have a perfectly good relationship without knowing all about your partner's past friendships, unless these relationships impinge on the present.