Letters to the Editor
Lestat1
Published Letters: 401 Editor's Choice: 18
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It's Cruciatis Curse
[Read the article: J.K. Rowling's Crucio curse on fan's Harry Potter book]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For one, the words Crucio are spoken to make the curse work so I can see the confusion.
Yet, I don't see why you would use the painful, torturous, crazy making curse when all she is doing is trying to stop someone from doing something with her work. Seems like the Impedimentia curse would be more fitting.
As for her, I don't think she is being immoral at all. It's her characters, her work she has first crack at making an encyclopedia out of her work.
Plus we don't know how scholarly this work is, or if it's just a bunch of stuff found in the books re-arranged which isn't exactly your own blood, sweat and tears.
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Keep yer traps shut
[Read the article: Our best friends are scarily, heedlessly in debt]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'll tell you a little story.
A co-worrker in my office had a shopping problem. She was thinking of selling the house she inherited to pay for the debt, we screamed at her no, no, no! We live in an equity building city where prices pretty much never drop. That's the coast for ya.
So she got her debt settled, in order and is on her way to a financially sound future.
She had a super duper bestest friend forever who was also having debt problems. Well she'll help out her bestest gal pal, she knew what it was like, went through it herself and fixed it right up and hey, her pal even asked for help! They had a little agreement, she'd help her manage her budget and other things I wasn't quite privy to. I told this co-worker of mine, lady you are going down a no-win path. This is money honey, it ends marriages, it can certainly end friendships.
Guess what, in a few short months, they are no longer on speaking terms.
Keep your mouth shut. It's not your place to say hey, look at all this debt, you've got to pay it off before buying that fancy watch/ring/HDTV system. Hey guess what, when you are young, in debt and you know that debt is going to be there for the next 5 or 6 years or more, not ever buying something nice for your lover because of college and medical debt just ain't gonna fly and you figure adding on an extra year of payments for the bliss something will bring now, eh fuck it. So don't go on about their gift buying habits or how often they go out to dinner. You have no idea where else they scrimp and save and most people just want a little bit of pleasure in their lives and not wait for that maybe one day, unless cancer or something. They are young and still living in the here and now, worring about 20 years from now just isn't there. Let them lament their debt when they are 35 and still probably have 10 years to fix it.
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"I do know people who think time out is some kind of child abuse"
[Read the article: The science of good parenting]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Really? How interesting, are they insane?
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Thanks for the answer
[Read the article: The science of good parenting]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since hitting, yelling and screaming are verboten, what else to do? Don't tell little Austen or Jayden to sit down and stop it, he/she may not feel loved, hilarious.
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Well maybe it's something else
[Read the article: Is there sexism in lifesaving?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Perhaps, as we've all heard and it's pretty much general knowledge, women live longer than men. Women in general are in better health than men, we go to the doctor more often, are less likely to wait and see if whatever the issue is resolves itself. Could part of the bias possibly be that the medical staff assumes the women will pull through while the man is more likely to die, so perhaps they are more intensive in their treatement of the men because they are more expected to die? It could also be that they are more used to seeing male heart problems and know what to do, while women's heart problems are still a little bit more mysterious so the medical staff waits instead of expensive ICU care where they may not have an answer or treatment plan?
Does it have to be nefarious and I really don't think the medical staff thinks eh, she's an old lady who gives a shit let her die.
Yet I find the assertion that biological realities of reproductive systems is some sort of bonus because women have gynos and men don't. Of course more health care dollars are spent on women, they are the only ones to grow the baby inside their body. Then there are complications that arise from growing a human being inside your body. Bone loss, blood clots, high blood pressure, gestational diabetes and all kinds of other things. Women's reproductive system is more complicated, it's not a bonus, it's not a special priveledge, it's just a fact of life.
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What a cad you are anon
[Read the article: Is there sexism in lifesaving?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Whether she had it or not isn't the point of the crappy service. The ER person is a receptionist, medical records are private so therfore you don't yell you probably have herpes in an ER room where everyone else there can hear you. Hell I have to stand behind a red line when people are picking up their scrips in a pharmacy. Also a receptionist is in no way qualified to make any sort of diagnosis based on the emergency being pelvic pain, it could be many things.