Letters to the Editor
Godmonkey
Published Letters: 149 Editor's Choice: 3
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#2 with one possible compromise
[Read the article: I'm a small-town girl dreaming of the big-city lights]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Go for the least acrimony possible, but definitely #2. You may genuinely love each other, but you sound hopelessly mismatched.
However, the one conceivable compromise would be to move to a place like Athens, Georgia, Charlottesville, Virginia, or Asheville, North Carolina -- university towns that offer some of the cultural benefits of the city, including hip, intelligent denizens, while offering the laid-back, low-pressure, rustic aspects of rural living (as well as the low cost of living, albeit with the attendant poor job market notwithstanding academic posts, which are hotly competitive). Plus you can drive to Balto/D.C. or Atlanta (in these examples).
This compromise, however, won't change the fact that you seem mismatched -- this guy simply has no intellectual curiosity and you do.
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Imus / Sharpton
[Read the article: Bloggers, Don Imus and free speech]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Imus is a prick, grossly impolitic and probably racist, but Sharpton is little more than a rank opportunist. Imus just gave him the best "Easter present" he ever got.
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And another thing ...
[Read the article: Bloggers, Don Imus and free speech]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Right Rev. Jesse Jackson also took this opportunity to bask in the limelight -- he of "Hymietown" fame.
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Well, yellow dog,
[Read the article: Memo to Bill O'Reilly: More immigrants equals less crime]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]it's not the 17th century anymore and being born on Planet Earth doesn't give each and every homo sapien the inalienable right to be an American citizen.
FWIW, I've lived around Mexicans most of my adult life and have a cultural comfort zone about ten miles wide. The mathematics of the matter are what matters; much of the anti-illegal alien crowd indulges in naked racism, I'm afraid, but that doesn't mean all of their concerns are unfounded.
I have a hard time getting in a lather about it. My city is 40% Hispanic, and about 40% of them are illegal. I figure we're about maxed out, and I'm cool with it. I will say this though: Anyone who tells you that they don't strain the social services network -- rather severely -- has no idea what they're talking about.
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Now Joan,
[Read the article: Michelle Malkin plays the victim card]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I want you to apologize to Michelle for not protecting her from the Bogeyman. You know she's too widdle to defend herself. Apologize now , young lady.
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Had to write this, Letter #70,
[Read the article: Porn in theory, porn in practice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]so that the number of letters posted would no longer be "69." I hated to think of all those unfortunates reflexively clicking on the number itself, to no avail.
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Talking Joan Walsh Blues
[Read the article: Fear of female Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I mean, hey, listen, Joan, it's a hell of a lot worse than you think. This morning I got up to brush my teeth, and there was a Democrat Sexist in the medicine cabinet! Driving to work, I heard some odd rustlings in the backseat -- I think there was a sexist back there! And by the watercooler, I heard snide remarks directed at Hillary Clinton -- by sexists! What possible reason could they have for disliking Hillary Clinton? Only one: She's a woman! And even saying the word "woman" makes me, for one, feel castrated! I'm even using lots of exclamation points as a kind of talismanic exercise, because they're rather phallic!
O save my sweet weiner from women in suits! God help me, look at my brain: There's a Democrat Sexist in there!
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Oh, it's Carol,
[Read the article: Fear of female Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]not Joan. Kind of takes the smart right out of my ass, I suppose.
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Subhead of Slaughterhouse Five
[Read the article: Kurt's canon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]well, I guess "subhead" is in the newspaper; "subtitle," though, is at a foreign flick ...
Whatever it's called, I'm fairly certain the tertiary title is not merely "A Dance With Death" but "A Duty-Dance With Death."
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God damn it,
[Read the article: Tangled up in Seuss]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This guy wasn't making a red dime off off Geisel's intellectual property -- and if dimes were red, he still wouldn't.
Must I cease and desist from reading Green Eggs and Ham, aloud, to my 3-year-old? To a roomful of 3-year-olds? To a roomful of 3-year-olds, delivered with a vaguely musical intonation? To a roomful of 3-year-olds plus three 33-year-olds, with a decidedly musical intonation?
To a goat? In a boat? The Geisel estate is overseen by humorless prigs. They seem happy enough to cheapen his legacy for a greasy dollar, though, I've noticed.
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You're right,
[Read the article: Kos gets a pass this week]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]not until a small cadre of overeducated theorists raised their private preoccupations to the level of an Ism, were men enlightened enough to take umbrage at their daughters being called whores.
"If anybody said that about my daughter, I'd stomp him nutsack and hang the bastrd upside down till he swoll up yeller as corn an burst!"
Progress. One dad at a time.
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True Enough,
[Read the article: "Lonely Hearts"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But where do you go to find an ugly actress who can sustain a lead? Not to mention sell tickets? Women in the plain-to-ugly range generally seek other lines of work, sensibly enough. Men, too, mostly.
Jesus God, is Salma Hayek ever beautiful.
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Give private piano lessons
[Read the article: I'm a jazz pianist, nearly 50, and I need to make some real money!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]to the progeny of the well-to-do. You could make a couple hundred bucks a day from about three or four hours' labor, and still gig at night. Network, post fliers, etc., and gradually build up a client base. You could even make house calls, and in this way spend time in a gracious setting, away from that shithole you call home.
Perfect solution! (Haven't read all the letters, I doubt I'm the first to suggest this)
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Interesting Perspective
[Read the article: Killer reflection]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The meditation on how mental illness is viewed in Asian culture was valuable and merits discussion. Certainly, from an American perspective, the parents should be considered responsible for recognizing that they had a mentally ill son --from all accounts, it was a hard thing to miss -- and seeking appropriate treatment.
As for everyone rushing in with racial generalizations about Asians -- come on. There's always some jackass somewhere who will burn an South Korean flag or whatnot, but has Cho's Asian-ness really been a big part of this story? The blackness of the Beltway killers, when it was remarked upon at all, merely engendered mild surprise. I think just about everybody had assumed that they were, in fact, white.