Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 162 Editor's Choice: 19
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good article with a refreshing point of view
[Read the article: The fall of man]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If a woman is dry, just add K-Y or some other lubricant.
But if the man can't get hard -- horrors!!
It's time we got rid of this double standard. Sex can be perfectly fine without an erection. Thanks for giving us this badly needed viewpoint.
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The lack of black competition is an overrated factor
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In Ruth's day, as now, African-Americans comprised only 12% of the total population. Unless you are willing to argue that African-Americans are much better "natural athletes", in the way that, say, 300-pounders have a natural advantage as linebackers, the fact that Ruth did not face any African-American competition is not significant.
It is in fact more than offset by the fact that:
--Negro League talent was more diluted. They had one-eighth the talent pool but fielded far more than one-eighth the number of white "major league" teams (16 in those days). While Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell, and Satchel Paige were undeniably great players who would have made the Hall of Fame had they been allowed to play in the white leagues, I doubt if they would have racked up the same stats or have been as legendary for their achievements because they were facing, as a whole, weaker pitchers and weaker batters.
--Today, major league talent, even with all colors of skin participating, is far more diluted than it was in the white-only leagues of Ruth's day. In Ruth's day baseball had no serious competition as a major league team sport. It was the first, second, third, and fourth choice among young athletes who wanted to make money. Now, baseball comes in as maybe a weak third behind basketball and football. And this is not made up for by the increase in the general population. In Ruth's day the U.S. had one-third the population it has now. But there are now twice as many major league teams. And the percentage of athletes looking to baseball as a career is far less than it was then.
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Am I going to the wrong beaches?
[Read the article: Summer reads]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Can I ask a question here?
Every June or so the media is inundated by articles like this. One gets the impression that every summer our beaches are filled with people (mostly women) who spend hours under an umbrella reading.
I have never seen this.
Am I going to the wrong beaches or something? We're in the New York metropolitan area, and the beaches we go to are either Orchard Beach in the Bronx, or Jones Beach or Robert Moses State Park on Long Island. Last year out of curiosity I looked around and all summer, out of thousands of beachgoers, I counted exactly eight people reading books. Most of the people reading were looking at magazines. But the great majority were either watching the kids run around, chatting, watching the ocean, or lying down soaking up rays.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who's noticed the disconnect between what seems like a media fixation on reading on beaches and the reality of what actually happens there.
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Juliebird: I suppose that's it.
[Read the article: Summer reads]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The summer beach reading must be getting done on private beaches, cabins, villas, etc.
The media fixation on summer beach reading shows how upscale media reporters are, how they assume how upscale their readers must be.
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Contraception and abortion are different issues
[Read the article: News flash: Americans support pregnancy prevention]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Both the pro-choice and pro-life movements try to connect them. Pro-choicers see the right to an abortion as a necessary aspect of a woman's right to control her body, while pro-lifers tend to see contraception as being almost as bad as abortion.
But now we see a huge majority of Americans supporting unfettered access to contraception by school-age children. As we already know, most do not support the unfettered right to an abortion (they support waiting periods, parental notification, prohibiting third trimester abortions, etc.).
Unfortunately there appears to be nobody in public life who feels like the average American. The ones who make the noise are polarizers. There is consensus position that nobody is articulating.
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wonderful!
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Should be in every newspaper today! Thanks!
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"JFK won by a handful of dubious votes . . ."
[Read the article: Nixon knows best]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One of many right-wing falsehoods that is internalized in this extraordinarily shallow and uninformed essay.
It's that "dead voters in Chicago" meme.
But Kennedy could have lost Illinois and he still would have won in the Electoral College.
And what about this "brilliant" opening to China, and detente with Russia? These were advocated by liberals for years but made politically impossible by red-baiting politicians, preeminently Nixon himself.
Say a fireman's trying to put out a fire and there's a guy blocking the entrance. Meanwhile the fire gets worse and worse. Finally at the last minute HE grabs the hose and goes up and puts the fire out.
1. Do you give him -- and not the fireman -- credit for putting out the fire? and
2. Is this the guy you trust the NEXT time there's a fire?
Allen Barra might see it as clever, but it was cynical, dangerous in the delay it caused, and dishonest. And Nixon gave away far more concessions in his China opening than the average liberal President would have. He just didn't know as much about China (or Vietnam) as the many knowledgeable State Department personnel whom he hounded out of public life during the McCarthy era. Thousands of dead soldiers was the result. But hey, he was clever!