Letters to the Editor
Lestat1
Published Letters: 462 Editor's Choice: 21
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That is the biggest load of crap
[Read the article: Cops arrested my partner for felony heroin possession]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It Appears....
the consensus opinion at Salon is, if your mate is drowning, toss them an anchor. Interesting.....
-- Stagger Lee
No one can make or help an addict stop doing the substance they are addicted too. You can not offer a reward, like a relationship and have the addict stop. Your love and devotion and loyalty will not make them stop if they don't want to. It doesn't work, only the person who is addicted to the drug can stop. They will do so if you are there or if you aren't. If they scream, you can't leave me, I need you, otherwise I can't stop it's a line of bullshit. You stop because you want to, you stop because you are willing to deal with the emotional upheaval that drove you to use in the first place, not because your lover didn't leave you.
Don't act like not remaining in a marriage with someone who got arrested on heroin charges is handing them an anchor, they were perfectly willing to pick up the anchor without any help from anyone but their friendly neighborhood dealer.
I applaud this LW and I hope she is able to keep their child away from any cycle of addiction. I hope that the child is never in the posistion of having their allowance "borrowed" so that mommy can get her fix. I hope that this child is never put in the situation of keeping a secret from the other mother, because mommy slipped just this once and she promises she won't ever do it again. I hope this child never has to find out that mommy's trip on the light fantastic was more important than their 6th birthday party. Or shows up high as a kite and everyone is embarrassed and the child wishes she never came in the first place.
Sure I don't know if this wife who's in rehab is just a user who got busted by the cops, or if she's an addict, but I've never met someone who decided heroin was a good drug to give a casual go.
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Oh my freaking god
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here is an article about how women in another country are finally being seen as equals, are part of the burgeoning economy, older people are able to save for their retirement and there are fewer sex selection abortions, democracy and freedom in action and instead we get a freaking bitch contest over who has the shortest side of the fucking life stick!
Are you kidding me, each gender has it's plus and minuses. Each has their cross to bear, their burden to sholder. Buck the fuck up people! Us in the USA can work if able, can go out to a bar if able, get shitfaced if we want, go to school, get into college, I am a woman, I have been shitfaced many a time in the presence of many a man, there has only been one rape attempt on myself ever and I throttled the asshole because I wasn't shitfaced at a party where I knew very few people.
It sucks when women get raped, it also sucked when my male friend got drugged and raped at a party he was working and no one cared cause no one cares about fag rape. We can all share sob stories and life's unfairness or I don't know, be happy about the improved life situations of an entire country!
How about giving that one a shot, hmm?
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I like the idea
[Read the article: Now Netflix tries for streaming movies on TV]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But not the format, I already have a Tivo, if Netflix could just get their service to work the way Amazon's Unbox does, I would totally use it. I do not want another 2 or 3 hundred dollar box just so I can download movies, plus I'm still ticked at Netflix for not making their site Mac compatible for instant viewing.
Also, if Amazon can grow their catalog to rival Netflix's, I might just drop Netflix.