Letters to the Editor
Hattie
Published Letters: 209 Editor's Choice: 11
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worst yet
[Read the article: To the worker ants of science]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]pee yew!
Helping friends move! Contemplating nuclear holocaust! Lauding dull people doing mundane scientific tasks so we trivial types can use the Internet for our non-serious purposes! Drivel and dreck!!!
Hard work! Hard Work!
Jesus Christ!
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Ann Lamott refuses to go away, thank goodness!
[Read the article: Anne Lamott's amazing grace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I used to be down on Lamott, but I've come around. It was her unwavering support of a woman's right to choose that did it for me.
She's very straight about who she is and what she stands for. Forthright. All good words for her.
What I like best about her is that she never presumes to speak for anyone but herself.
I am interested the adventure of her life and would like to see columns by her in Salon again.
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Penguin humor
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Laugh, I thought I'd die.
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Go for it!
[Read the article: Should I go to the extravagantly prestigious school of my dreams?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I got an M.A. at the college of my dreams at age 52. With an 80% scholarship for which I did not even have to demonstrate need.
I'm sure you can get something like that.
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Why make your life so bloody complicated?
[Read the article: And are you their grandmother?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My husband and I are in our 60's and are enjoying the companionship of our kids and grandkids. A friend of mine who had twins at age 53 in vitro is now 62. Her husband is never around. He's 15 years younger and pleases himself about what he does. He's from another culture and is now joining the three month ceremony in his home village that is obligatory for the death of his father, and there she is, stuck at home with a couple of boys. And she had the kids to hold onto him!
Her daughter has rejected her, so she never sees her or her granddaughter.
It was very unwise of her to reproduce like this. But it's the kids who are paying the big price. I mean, they might as well not have a father, for all they see him. And she just wants to do her art. Well, should have thought of that...
Wait till they become teenagers and she's her 70's. Ugh.
They don't have much money, either. This is a disaster in the making.
I really think this is all craziness.
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Gang rapists
[Read the article: District attorney won't take gang rape case]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Quite aside from the legal aspects of this case, those young woman who rescued the victim may possibly have saved her life.
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Put him to work
[Read the article: Scooter Libby is like Lil' Kim]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Libby will be very useful in prison. I can see him on the education workline, teaching basic skills in reading and math and high school equivalency courses. I don't know if he should be allowed to teach civics, however.
I think it's nice that LIbby is getting a chance at restitution. Would that the higher ups he reported to were getting a similar opportunity!
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My butt
[Read the article: Healthy, my ass]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry, but a big butt does not put women at greater risk for disease. Abdominal fat does, though.
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I loved it
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Heh, heh. Really struck a nerve with some of the lads!
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yeah, right
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Troll alert!
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Parker
[Read the article: Save the males]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Luckily, she is a lousy boring writer.
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She can't write, has nothing to say, but otherwise...
[Read the article: Don't run, Al. Don't!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Shoki! You are so right about Zsa-Zsa.
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This is important stuff
[Read the article: Portrait of a princess, interrupted]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't people want to know what the upper class is like? They run our show for us.
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I was 12 in 1951
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The worst, all time worst year in American taste!
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who cares
[Read the article: Bad news dad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the world really needs you and your kids.
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Women do it too
[Read the article: Bad news dad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I know a woman who had twins in her 50's with her much younger husband and another woman's eggs. She is vain and narcissistic and trying to hold on to her youth (and her husband).
Now, at age 63 she has two ten year old twins to deal with and a husband who is never around but always traveling on business. She complains constantly, just as if she had not produced these children quite deliberately. It's not a particularly charming situation.
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How cute
[Read the article: Hillary's Tony new ad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So what is this? Is life in America just a joke to these people?
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Can't understand them
[Read the article: Krauthammer's plan to deny Palestinians gas and electricity]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What is wrong with these people? Are they mentally ill?
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those bunnies look tasty
[Read the article: Rabbit Bites: Has the Web been commodified?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What cute rabbits. My husband loves rabbit. I stew the rabbit with tomato and onion and peppers. Yum.
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It's possible to get free energy
[Read the article: Oil prices: You ain't seen nuthin' yet]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We have cheap and plentiful energy. All the hot water we want from solar panels and more electricity than we can use from photovoltaics.
We had to pay to put in the systems, but look what people pay for a luxury car or SUV that depreciates the minute they drive it off the lot. In contrast, this investment gives us a three year payback on the hot water and a seven year payback on the electricity. And adds value to our house as well. And in a couple of years we may even be able to get an electric car we can plug into the household current. I hear such a vehicle is in the works.In the meantime we drive our old Volvo.
I can't understand why people who could afford to do what we're doing aren't doing it.
I also think businesses and municipalities need to do lots more than they are doing for sustainability.
After all, we can't control geopolitics but we can do things at ground level, so to speak.
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Hating fat people
[Read the article: Big momma's house]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I loved my fat drinker and smoker of an aunt more than I loved my own mother. Why? Aunt Rose was easy going and didn't mind what I did, mostly, so I grew up with an easygoing personality that she modeled for me. My own parents were uptight about food, money, etc. etc.
Of course none of this current discussion has much to do with kids, really. It's more about punishing women (especially) for being fat.
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They are serious but not sane
[Read the article: The mainstream, sane, serious Joe Lieberman]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oy vey. Joe Lieberman, the Senator from Israel. Thank god for you and Blumenthal.
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Cartoon
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]By god, if you aren't grumpy today you have not been paying attention!
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Thanks
[Read the article: More on Zelikow, the BGR firm and Allawi]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What sordid people those beltway creatures are, to be sure. Thank you, Glenn Greenwald, for exposing them to the light of day.
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It's easy to walk away (for the father)
[Read the article: My brother left his girlfriend with a 5-month-old baby]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What if the one who walked away was the mother?