Letters to the Editor
Lynx
Published Letters: 1589 Editor's Choice: 126
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Strictly from a legal standpoint
[Read the article: Polygamy loves company]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've noticed quite a few posts about how hard it'd be in case of divorce, health insurance, survivor's benefits, etc...
There's a simple solution to all of that: incorporate. Run the family like a company, every adult is an euqal partner. You don't need to worry about who's married to whom. All the aforementioned problems get handled in the legal documents creating the company.
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No surprise there
[Read the article: From "To Hell With Them" hawks to "Christians for Torture"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Christians think nothing of condemning people to torture for all eternity for sinply not agreeing with them (going to hell), why would it be surprising that they'd condone torture in this world? Christianity has a long history of torture, one of the highlights of which was the Inquisition.
Agnotstics and Atheists wouldn't have that underlying philosophy (hell) going into the question. Also, when you don't believe in an afterlife what happens in this world is Much more important. If anything, I'm surprised the numbers aren't more skewed.
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George Dukakis
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is a man who died trying to go over Niagra Falls in a barrel in 1931.
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Ms. Schwartz
[Read the article: From "To Hell With Them" hawks to "Christians for Torture"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So, who do you know that's currently incarcerated in the California Prison System?
I ask because you come back to this diatribe at every possible moment; this is obviously personal to you. I don't tend to pay much attention to your posts when you start this because I've read it before, have no idea what you're talking about (I live a country away) and it has little to nothing to do with most of the articles you're responding to. It is like that person that responded to an article awhile ago that mentioned that President Taft was famously fat. The responding post was a rant against discriminating against fat people. All well and good, but utterly out of place and bizarre becuase of its placement.
Write an article about this and submit it to Salon. I have no idea if they'd accept it, but maybe they'd write one of their own. In the meantime, you weaken your case by attaching it to whatever you possibly can. I doubt Secular Humanists are to blame for this, at least solely. There may have been some involved somewhere, but likely there were many "Christians" and others involved too.
I hope your problems with the system can be resolved and whatever loved one you have that is currently incarcerated comes to no harm while in the system.
Sincerely,
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Lazy
[Read the article: Charity begins at home]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I guess more traditional money laundering is too much trouble? The money probably comes from some illegal or morally bankrupt source, so laundering it through a charity is better for her than just giving it to Mr. Bankrupt Savings & Loan Scandal directly. After all, for a family that dealt with the Nazis everything else probably seems just fine.
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Amazing
[Read the article: Signing away the Patriot Act]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What shocks me about this every time is how short sighted these people are. Do they really think Democrats will never ever regain the White House or Congress?
I wasn't too worried about their attempt to use the "nuclear" option over judge confirmation 'cause that just meant when Dmes retook the White House and Senate we could put ultra-liberals on the court and there'd be nothing the Republicans could do about it. If they really want signing statements to be legal, fine. Then when there's a Democratic President and Republican Congress, we'll see how they like it. They pass a law banning "partial-birth abortion" and the president signs with a statement that says "this concerns all procedures the medical community defines this way" and there ain't none.
You make your bed, you lie in it.
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Schafly's place in history
[Read the article: A woman's place is in the home section]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In a generation or two, it'll be either "Forgotten" or "Footnote". I wouldn't worry too much about it, she's decided to side with those who oppose porgress. In the longer run, they're all about as effective as people that try to stop tanks by lining their heads up under the treads hoping to gum up the works.
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Ah, those crazy kids
[Read the article: Driving people crazy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As another poster pointed out, the left lanes are for passing. If you're going the same speed as the car to your right, you're supposed to move to the right lane.
The also miss the point of the speed limit entirely. The lax enforcement of the speed limit allows society to blow off steam in a relatively harmless way. People can feel like they're flaunting the law within limits. It allows them to "stick it to the man" without actually doing anything of the kind.
That said, it is a shame they took this kind of time, resources and coordination to protest... that. War in Iraq? Dismantling social programs? Woman's right to choose under threat? Pollution? Global Warming? Illegal spying programs? Drunken VPs shooting old men in the face? Lobbyists writing laws? Big Oil gouging consumers and blaming the market? Afghanistan going to hell? Bin Laden still on the loose? College tuition going up and up? More tax breaks for the wealthy? Nah, lets protest the hypocracy of the speed limit. Good idea, don't want to actually stick your necks out.
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Pricing
[Read the article: A band-aid on a gusher]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Becker notes that in the draft rules released in August, DOT projected that the price of gasoline over the lifetime of vehicles bought between 2008 and 2011 would range from $1.51 to $1.58 (not accounting for inflation); in the current rules, that projection has been bumped up to a range of $1.96 to $2.39.
Funniest part of the whole article right there. Gas is already over $2.50 a gallon and it isn't going down any time soon. Probably see a small dip for the elections to help the scum, I mean Republicans, but that's it.
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Miss America
[Read the article: No fear]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow, Miss America posted here? I wouldn't think she'd have time with all the appearances she has to make.
Of course Miss America would have a problem with people calling themselves feminist. That's the most anti-feminist title in America today, right after First Lady.