Letters to the Editor
Aycharaych
Published Letters: 2087 Editor's Choice: 3
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Thrasher..
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]It was just a suggestion, and I like Firefox better anyway.
I find that if I let myself get sloppy when posting it bleeds over into other stuff I do, so I try to keep up my standards all the time.
You'd probably be surprised at how much this fifty something fish-belly-white Southern dude agrees with you.
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Jkalos
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I meant human life on earth (I am under the depressing impression total nuclear winter would end that).
ISTR that nuclear winter was somewhat overblown.
Nuclear war won't kill *everyone*, but it will get rid of 95+% of homo sap. Those that are left will be both smart and tough.
Australian aborigines used to hunt kangaroos by the simple expedient of chasing a single one on foot until the 'roo dropped from exhaustion. A 'roo is like a dog and doesn't have as good a cooling mechanism as a man, they overheat under extended exertion in high temperature faster than a man does.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting#Persistence_hunting
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I would love to have seen that..
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Do you suppose it was because of all of the Ron Paul supporters who chased Sean Hannity out of that NH restaurant and back to his hotel?
I hadn't heard that.. Made my day.
A long time ago I used to listen to Neal Boortz, Hannity was on the other local AM talk station.
Every day Boortz would end his program by saying "bye bye Sean".
Boortz is a jerk but he used to be a damn funny one before he drank the neocon koolaid to make the big bucks in syndication.
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totallyblase..
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have a cunning plan, milord.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldrick
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ondelette
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]In a 5% survival scenario, the 5% will be determined by geography only. And the next question will be, "For how long?" At Hiroshima, people kept on dying for years.
Full scale nuclear war will bring civilization to an end.
When civilization collapses only the tough and the smart will survive, fallout patterns will determine a lot but not everything.
Hiroshima has been rebuilt, there is a marker at "ground zero".
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Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich
[Read the article: The Manchester of the South?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The only two Federal level politicians in America that want to end the most freedom destroying policy in the USA.
The drug war.
One third of black men will go to prison in their lifetime, in large measure thanks to the drug war.
It is an open and shut case that Al Gore "lost" the Y2K election thanks to the drug war. Liberals like to blame Nader but they should instead point the finger at themselves for allowing a monstrous portion of their very strongest constituency to be disenfranchised over a rank fantasy. Fantasy since there is absolutely no evidence that the drug war accomplishes anything positive and a veritable Everest of evidence that it is a negative force in society.
That the nineteenth amendment and the twenty first amendment are but thirteen years apart is only one part of the evidence against the drug war. There must have been some powerful reasons for public opinion to shift so dramatically in a mere thirteen years.
As for economists, we have hundreds of thousands of them and yet the price of gold is climbing steadily.
http://tinyurl.com/37moud
Interestingly enough, the price of gold started climbing in 2001.. Perhaps savvy investors understood the significance of Bush's win.
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Dr Dredd
[Read the article: Is there a doctor in the mouse?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dr. Parikh's article is a bit biased. He fails to mention that, in addition to researching Dr. Haig's qualifications, the Googler in question also found out where he lived and made sure to let him know it. That's rather creepy. (She also brought her bratty son to the consultation. This has nothing to do with googling, but bolsters the impression of the Googler as someone who is inconsiderate at best.)
When I fill out medical forms part of the questionnaire is my address.. The doctor knows where I live. Rather creepy, eh?
Not everyone has childcare available at any time they wish. Sometimes people have to bring their children with them to places they would rather not.
When one has the income of an MD it is easy to lose track of the fact that many of one's patients lack similar financial resources.
I understand that doctors face frustrations in dealing with patients, but doctors are well compensated professionals aware of the details of their profession.
The modern health care system in the US is incredibly complex and frustrating for the average patient. We are not professionals and dealing with all the myriad complexities of the system is very stressful and time consuming.
Oh, and if you are having to run late on a lot of your consultations with patients and you know this then perhaps you should schedule a few less patients per day, eh?
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RMP
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]The masses particularly those without cable might surprise the networks on what they would like and hey those rich CEOs might consider it a public service and do it even if the ratings were low
It will be interesting to see what the end of analog TV on Feb 17, 2009 will do to cable.
People will have to go out and buy either new TV sets or HDTV tuners for their old ones to continue getting on air TV reception.
I suspect it may hurt the cable channels since on air reception will be considerably better on the HDTV channels than analog ones.