Letters to the Editor
rebecalouise
Published Letters: 125 Editor's Choice: 8
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This should not leave you limp
[Read the article: Rush Limbaugh and the little blue pill]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First, the Dominican Republic is known for it's underage female prostitutes, so if Mr. Limbaugh was not down there with a lady-friend, there is a chance that this Right Wing hypocrite was there for the underage, low-cost hookers.
Yuk.
And, when you commit a crime with prescription medication and your high-priced lawyer negotiates a sweet deal that poor blacks -- or anyone else for that matter -- in Florida could never get, you sure as HELL better stick to the rules!!!!
This is just wrong; I don't care whether you buy too much cold medication by going to 3 pharmacies in a day or ask your over-paid doctor to hide your erectile dysfunction by committing fraud. Rush Limbaugh thinks he can just do anything he wants with him money and his mouth and I would love to see him serve HARD TIME, with all the other normal human beings for breaking his plea agreement.
Bad call, Salon War Room. Liberals are Too Damn Nice sometimes!
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The Closer: A guity pleasure.
[Read the article: "The Closer" -- nail it shut]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry, I disagree, most heartily! Yes, there is a formula. Yes, The Closer can be a bit "precious." But it is a guilty pleasure to watch a woman make her way in a "man's world," to try to have a life ( including a sex life) and to deal with the silly world of La La Los Angeles while she solves crimes in a high-profile position under the man with whom she once had an adulterous affair. Does that seem far fetched? Well, maybe it is, maybe it isn't...
I am not sure about the acting of her co-stars -- but can you really dismiss the episode where two of her cops decide to ignore the body of a busty blonde in their own garage -- so they can use tickets to VIP Box seats for a Dodger game -- and then the body disappears? I mean, really? How fun is that? As the daughter and mother of Dodger fans, I find it completely realistic. As a woman, I find it, sadly, realistic. And what about the show where Brenda spends a small fortune on make-up and clothes "for a case" that she intends to return later but, after waaayyy too many compliments, decides to keep everything, succumbing to the seduction of LA's beauty culture...
Brenda's vulnerability, clumsiness, "fish out of water" charm and the aforementioned gems of plot and characterization make The Closer an interesting program to watch in spite of it's flaws. Watch it a few more times. You might see more than you did the few times you watched it for this article.
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Talk dirty to all of us, Cary!
[Read the article: Talk dirty to me, please?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am sorry, but how can anyone say that two people who are so obviously out of tune sexually should even consider staying together for ONE MORE MINUTE? Do you want his heart broken from her cheating? Or maybe, their home wrecked by divorce and their children shuttled from house to house -- spending Thanksgiving with Dad and his new wife and Christmas with Mom and her latest fanny spanker?
With two people who are so amazingly physically incompatible, you are asking for trouble if you stay together and try to "make it work for love." True love and, perhaps, later, a family -- children -- deserve two people -- parents -- who adore each other emotionally and physically. Who satisfy each other's needs at the most basic level.
Now, do you leave someone if he has been a wonderful lover for 10 years but becomes too ill to swing from the chandeliers? Or get upset if your wife has 2 little ones under the age of 4 and is less keen on the acting out the Kama Sutra lately? No, of course not! Sexual excitement will ebb and flow. But, if you start out with the same attitude and values, your sex life will bring you closer together over time and through the vicissitudes of life.
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Stripping...how about the Dancing Boys?
[Read the article: Strippers turn up the heat at global warming conference]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ok, Adrienne...it was only a bit of female flesh and a bit of light-hearted fun, you say? It would have been fine if there had been a few "dancing boys" for the female attendees to enjoy also. Otherwise, I say, "Right On!" to those who said, "Shut it down!" I had a boyfriend who regaled me with stories about conferences in the days before "mean feminists ruined things." Nights out at strip clubs, "models" at dinners, heck, even strippers at the events themselves! Well, suffice to say, the "boy" did not remain a boyfriend long and I can see why, even a modicum of unbalanced sexist "fun" can get on the nerves of mature people.
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Lieberman and CT "Dems"
[Read the article: Lieberman's Republican problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I do not understand how any person who calls himself or herself a Democrat in the state of Connecticut can possibly THINK of voting for ANYONE who has done the kinds of things Lieberman has done. First, he "broke the rules" to run against his own party's candidate. Now, he will not even pledge to caucus with his own party if he is elected after his "spoiler candidacy."
Do you understand, Democratic voters of Connecticut, that it may well come down to ONE caucus vote for the Democrats to take over the Senate? And, from what I can tell from this article, it looks as if Joe Lieberman could well be "sold to the highest bidder." Lieberman could blackmail his way to almost any Senate position he wanted to get his "Caucus" vote.
This is the man who was given one of the highest honors his party can bestow: he was asked to became our candidate for the Vice-President of the United States. And, now, he wants to play "Let's Make a Deal" to caucus with us in our efforts to make sure we take the Senate back?
Kick him to the curb, Connecticut Democrats. That is where he deserves to be!