Letters to the Editor
Gwool
Published Letters: 366 Editor's Choice: 40
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Long Vacation? You'll hate it
[Read the article: I don't know how to take a vacation!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've run a two person shop with some 1099 contractors for 17 years. I have a week ski trip with the family that I take every year that is more a Bataan Death March. My says she can see my face start tensing up friday night as we start the drive back on Saturday. Sunday is supposed to be the decompression day, but I usually find myself in the office figuring out what the hell happened while I was gone.
Other than I don't take vacations.
I find if I am off for more than three to four days I wind up climbing the walls and wondering what is happening at work. As we all know, work can be all of an e-mail click away at all times for most. Having my office attached to the house, I can actually hear the phone ring and race to answer it in the middle of dinner. My wife has therefore had me turn down the ringers.
So, if I were you I wouldn't take a vaction per se. I'd start taking long weekends. Take a Friday off a month. Plan a long weekend and see how it goes.
My favorite time is the Thanksgiving break. I leave early afternoon on Wednesday and don't go back until Monday. That, for me at least, is a perfect amount of time away from the business. Anything longer, and I start getting antsy.
To each his own, but I would caution against starting out by taking two or three weeks off. You'll wind up loving your ever loving mind.
Long weekends help take the sting out of work weeks without raising the anxiety of wondering what the hell is going on while you are away.
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First one Nails It
[Read the article: "The Sopranos" prediction pool]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think Heather's nails it. It ties to his dream sequence when shot. He goes into witness protection and winds up in the subur bs somewhere.
Only thing I would add is the idea the Janice hangs out and takes over. She's a bitch just like her mother and has bigger balls than her brother.
Crazier, too.
Melfi? Sadly, we never get to see her naked getting taken doggy style by Tony as he grunts and says, "C'mon! For what I pay you an hour you could FUCKING MOVE A LITTLE!"
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What Good Can Come of This?
[Read the article: Paris isn't free -- and neither are we]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, with any luck perhaps Paris will become someone's bitch and be taught how to screw right. If her video is any guide, you'd have to be into necrophelia to want to mount that skeleton.
Oh how I wish that dizzy bitch would just go away.
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Hmm ... Could Harry Seldon be to Paris Hilton ...
[Read the article: Paris isn't free -- and neither are we]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What John Hinckley was to Jodie Foster?
Repeat after me, boys and girls ...
President Cheney.
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Want Some Chewing Gum, Harry?
[Read the article: Paris isn't free -- and neither are we]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It might help you pop your ears on that high horse of yours.
Our justice system has its warts, but I will still put it in the top tier around the world. People do not disappear from it. People receive trials. People remain innocent until proven guilty. I doubt we'll have to worry about a mass grave somewhere.
Where you from, sport? From what societal ooze have you slithered?
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Rights and Responsibilities
[Read the article: My delinquent student loans are driving me crazy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This one is way too simple.
With rights come responsibilities. Based on certain criteria, the LW had the right to borrow money from the government to educate herself. She now has the responsibility to pay them back.
Period.
Take responsibility for your actions, call the collection agents, and work out a repayment plan.
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That ruling is meaningless
[Read the article: Court: Bush can't detain "enemy combatant" indefinitely]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The ruling is meaningless. A LAWFUL enemy combatant would have to fall under the Geneva Convention guidelines an could not be held indefinitely, either.
An UNLAWFUL enemy combatant does not fall under the Geneva Convention guidelines.
Discussing enemy combatants is one step removed from having relevance when talking about terrorist supsects.
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Civil Versus Military, SLB
[Read the article: Court: Bush can't detain "enemy combatant" indefinitely]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The gray area this presents is one that should be addressed by a new set of Geneva Conventions. They did not envision non uniformed personnel seeking to maximize civilian casualties when those things were drafted.
The geneva conventions had the carrot and stick. The carrot for conforming to the rules of war was the concommitant protections your combatants could expect if captured. The stick for non compliance was that the protections would not apply.
These invididuals most assuredly do not belong in the civil court system. They belong in the military one.
It is not a civil matter. We didn't funnel German and Japanese POWs through the civilian court system. Though on a far smaller scale, these individuals do not fit it, either.
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Coarsening Discourse
[Read the article: Hillary's hard-won experience]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I found Ms. Clinton's tenor and tone surprisingly cordial in the interview. This runs counter to recollection. Indeed, most recently there was her scathing attack of Barak Obama because former Clinton supporter David Geffen who has switched camps claimed the Clintons had turned lying into an art form.
Her swift, vicious response was a page out of the Carville play book. One can argue it is a necessary campaign function, but it becomes difficult these days to not argue that Americans seem sick and tired of it.
Her Dean-like shrill yell won't play well. Snarky comments about a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy won't play well. Mocking women by saying she's not some Tammy Wynette singing "Stand by your man" won't play well.
Indeed, the Matt Lauer interview made famous by the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy gets selectively edited to only include the VRWC comment. Matt's follow-up question was to ask her "but what if it is true" to which she replied that it would be "very grave indeed."
That doesn't get mentioned anymore.
Stand by your man.