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For what it's worth
[Read the article: Will my boyfriend ever want kids and marriage?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm a man. I didn't want kids when I was 26. Twenty years later, I still don't want kids. Even though I like kids and enjoy their company.
But then again, I now men who didn't "want" kids, but now are so glad they have them. So it goes both ways.
Word of warning: The woman I was with when I was 26 left because she definitely wanted kids, and sooner rather than later. Fast forward about 15 years and she's a single mom of an 11-year old, separated twice and now divorced from a man who all her friends told her wasn't good for her. DON'T get married to someone (just anyone?) and have kids just because you SO want too. I know too many men and women who have been down that path. Divorce, alimony, acrimony, anger, 20 years of limited life choices.
Be careful what you wish for, as the saying goes.
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Right
[Read the article: Veep alert = cash call]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]McCain seeks to paint Obama as an out-of-touch celebrity candidate, so what does the Obama camp do? Goes all American Idol on the VP selection.
The Obama campaign is badly tone deaf, and that doesn't bode well for November.
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Obama doesn't have a clue.
[Read the article: Why isn't Obama crushing McCain?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Obama campaign is badly tone deaf, and that doesn't bode well for November.
McCain seeks to paint Obama as an out-of-touch celebrity candidate, so what does the Obama camp do? Goes all American Idol on the VP selection. Which should appeal to who? The Facebook generation. Which will reinforce the idea that he's a lightweight, doesn't have the gravitas and all that.
Stupid. Just incredibly stupid.
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OMG, cheap beer isn't as good as expensive beer? Who knew?
[Read the article: The United States of cheap beer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.blacktable.com/beerrun030123.htm
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The Bud distributer pissed off the bar owner
[Read the article: And the next great American beer will be...? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who told the Bud guy to go fuck himself, and she got PBR in. I tried it. It was way better than any Bud or Miller product. It was actually drinkable, and cheap. This must have been 10 years ago, in Boston. That's how I built my fortune, switching to Pabst.
Of course, now you can go to some establishments and buy a 12-oz. bottle of same for $4.00. So much for hipster icon status.
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One thing missing from all these beer articles of late
[Read the article: And the next great American beer will be...? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is that some people like to drink beer for the alcohol content. As in to get drunk. This would especially go for young people and rockers. Not just three-beer, I-only-drink good-beer, polite barbeque/dinner-party, I-have-to-drive-home-later buzzed, but actually a little (or more) drunk. As in, "...and a shot of Jack with that." It's called a party.
Which is one reason why it would be popular with urban, hipster, indie, rockers who can walk or take the subway or a taxi home drunk types.
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Get rid of the caususes while your at it
[Read the article: Sayonara, superdelegates]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you want to participate in the election process, you should hold an election.
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In other words
[Read the article: Less dessert]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He's using economic populism, in a small town, in a southern state. Which is not supposed to work, according to Mr. Schaller. Granted, it's not the deep south, but still...
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Amazing
[Read the article: Isn't she lovely?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I googled the speech. Top of the list was Demconvention.com. I clicked on the video - and they want me to download MS Silverlight and a video player! How stupid can you get?
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WTF with the Wal-mart crack?
[Read the article: Conservative reaction to Palin pregnancy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You think only conservatives shop at Wal-mart? You don't think that some of those hard-working Americans that the Democrats so went on about at their convention shop at Wal-Mart? Hell, my local supermarket is open today - I just got back from there. Does that make me a labor-hating conservative?
Christ, even I hate liberals sometimes.
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Camille Paglia on reefer
[Read the article: The dominatrix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's how I imagine Mr. Kamiya. Still sitting there in the dormroom of his mind, bong in hand, making all these...connections! "Dude, she's like a dominatrix. And America LIKES it!"
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Best wishes, Mr. Breathed
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I vote for the meadow too! Maybe he goes into his anxiety closet, passes the door, and there are the dandelions!
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The impersonation was terrific
[Read the article: Tina Fey on "SNL": Umm, wow]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But it's only funny if the writing is funny. Which it wasn't.
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Take the Lexus
[Read the article: First reactions to the Paulson plan: Boo!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And all the cars, the extra homes, everything. Leave them w/ a modest 3-bedroom house and a used Corolla.
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How many Friedman Units
[Read the article: Thomas Friedman wants a revolution]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Does it take to change a lightbulb?
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Woodward
[Read the article: Salon Radio: Notre Dame finance professor Richard Sheehan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The secret weapon, and why he couldn't tell it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvj1QGqfQyg
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Seriously, let them all fail
[Read the article: An unhappy House, divided]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Then take their cars, their homes, everything they have, throw them in jail if malfeasance can be proved.
As much as the communists sucked, they served one purpose - they were the only thing these "investor" shitheads were afraid of. They are not afraid of God or the law. Real jail time might do the trick. Especially if you could sneak some good video out on to YouTube for them all to view.
If they all still lived down the street from 10,000 industrial workers who could get their hands on pipe wrenches at a moment's notice, we wouldn't be going through this crap. There would be a lot more equity. It would be in their own best interest.
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Warren Buffett sank $5 Billion into Goldman Sachs
[Read the article: An unhappy House, divided]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let the financiers pay the cost, a la JP Morgan in 1907. To whom much is given, much is expected, and all that.
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Hurray! We're a superpower again!
[Read the article: World to U.S.: You suck]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Time to get some of those countries to step up and pay down the trade deficit. Maybe chunk in a little extra for the bailout.
Who knew supreme debt could equal super power? Turns out we've got the world by the balls. Let's squeeze!
And they said the US was losing it's innovative egde. Ha!
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Socialism
[Read the article: The end of the Reagan revolution]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Good lord, the most successful countries of the post-War years, really since 1900, have been the mildly socialist, pro-labor, high-wage countries of the West. Socialism, in small doses, well-applied works. It's pretty self-evident if you don't have blinders on.
And as the least mildly socialist of those countries, the US lags in health care, education, infant mortality, a whole host of areas. We have the most productive workers in the world, with stagnant wages and the least time off.