Letters to the Editor
Lynx
Published Letters: 1664 Editor's Choice: 127
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Your acronym is fine
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]PRV and PERV aren't the same. It worries me that the guy from NJ can't tell the difference. He's supposed to be doinf statistics and he can't see that one has 4 letters and the other 3? I bet he's constantly wandering into AAA offices trying to talk about his drinking problem and wondering how a map is supposed to help.
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Respond
[Read the article: Ann Coulter, a profile in courage]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dems should go to all her book signings, not buy anything and just take up space in line. When you get to her, you can tell her what you think, or perhaps ask "how much" and "so where do you keep the bed?". Really, anything you choose to say to her would be far more polite than what she has to say.
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jacjr
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Never accurate and then quickly forgotten"?
King admits all the time that his predictions aren't right. He links back to his wrong predictions whenever he's talking about those same teams or other predictions. In the very article you're responding to he mocks his own predictions throughout the first half of the article! I don't think "quickly forgotten" means what you think it means.
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Everyone should have an asterisk
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jim Thorpe set a record in the 1906 Olympics that wouldn't be topped until Bruce Jenner beat it 70 years later. Thorpe never trained and yet excelled in many sports. Jenner and others who came later had the benefits of year-round training and better medical treatment their entire lives. They all had benefits Thorpe didn't have, but they don't have asterisks by their records.
Lou Gerhig played 2,130 straight baseball games. This was in the 1920s and 30s. His record wouldn't be eclipsed until Cal Ripkin beat it in 1995. Ripkin had all kinds of benefits Gerhig didn't have from better medical treatment and physical training to more comfortable transportation and housing. Ripkin has no asterisk.
This holds true across all sports, the people in the early days of the 20th century faced hardships in every day life that the people in the last decades of the 20th century were spared. Numerous sports figured had interrupted careers because of WWII, do we hand out asterisks because of this as well?
There shouldn't be any asterisks in the sports books, times change, technology advances from baseball getting gloves and football getting real pads and helmets to better medical treatment for injuries and better nutrition since childhood. The real answer for "performance enhancing" drugs in sports is to ensure that all athletes who want to persue it do so under the care of disinterested doctors. Doctors who's primary concern is the player's health. Yes, yes I'm sure some would respond that there'd be doctors that would abuse their positions in the hopes of their team winning a championship. I'm not saying this is a perfect answer, I'm saying it is the only one with a reasonable chance of working.
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Wrong tense
[Read the article: Wonder Girl named new Wonder Woman]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Will be written by"? The first issue came out last week. You should go pick up a copy. And this may be spoilery for anyone who's overly sensitive about such things, but Diana Prince shows up on the last page in her 1960s/70s non-superhero/spy outfit.
And how is this a big month because of the announcement that DC is going to reintroduce a minor character from the 40s and make her a lesbian? The comics community is yawning over this. My local comic shop proprietor was asking customers if they wanted to call the local paper and give a quote about this. The paper had asked him for one and he had nothing to say about it except "not a big deal". In fact, none of the people he asked really had anything else to say about it either. The character is part of an already well established lesbian couple. One of the two women is a cop. The bigger news is that the other becomes Batwoman, not that she's a lesbian.
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Pay Me
[Read the article: Where do "family-friendly" workplaces leave singles?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've been a consultant for many years now and am fortunate to have a simple solution for the "you don't have kids, work later" problem. Any time bosses mention that they'd like me to work extra hours, I respond with "sure, just ok this overtime and I'm set". They then respond with "oh, nevermind."
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Idiocy in hiring
[Read the article: Are personality tests biased against introverts?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I took one personality test for a job as a clerk in a bookstore when I was 19. Never since. Were I asked to take one today, I'd say no. They're crap. They predict nothing and have little more validity than an on-line "which LoTR Character are you" quiz.
More recently, I was applying for a computer consulting position at Ernst & Young and they wanted to run a credit check on me. Evidently they think they can tell if someone is going to steal or be reliable with this. 'cause of course Rich people, like Ken Lay, never steal. I walked out of the interview. That kind of information is none of their business. Same with personality tests which can be interpreted any way the interpreter likes. It is a bunch of Scientology-like nonsense.
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Epizia
[Read the article: Are personality tests biased against introverts?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Credit Checks
And yet, they wouldn't tell me why they wanted to run my credit report. What I reported were the reasons my agency gave. I later ended up working for Ernst & Young on a project they were doing jointly through Microsoft and my Credit History was never run.
So you're saying they aren't worried I'd steal, but their insurers are? If true, yet another reason why Insurance has become a scam.