Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 20 Editor's Choice: 3
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In the words of the magnificent Sarah Vowell ...
[Read the article: The K Chronicles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Bacon, the food of joy." (from "The Partly Cloudy Patriot")
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Come again?
[Read the article: "Scoop"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"My first wife was sexually abused for six long years by her father, from the age of 12 ..."
And I'll bet she'll really appreciate your outing her experience on Salon. Never mind that you didn't name her; you signed your own name and posted your address. How long before a mutual acquaintance links you to her?
"So I am more than normally attuned to incest and inappropriate sexual conduct ..."
Does she know you're exploiting her story and using her family tragedy to score points against some celebrity on an easily accessed, popular website? Damn, that's some real sensitivity!
"Mr. Allen is a piece of dirt."
Look in the mirror, kid.
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Okay, let's really nitpick ...
[Read the article: "Accepted"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He has been rejected by each of the seven colleges to which he has applied for admission.
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Does fat chick = virgin?
[Read the article: The 30-year-old virgins]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, it doesn't ... although it's painfully apparent from this forum that there are plenty of people who are convinced that involuntary virginity is the direct result of morbid obesity. Folks, I'm 80 pounds overweight, and while I get a lot of "you have such a pretty face," I'm sure the majority of the male posters here wouldn't look twice at me. But I lost my virginity at 19 after an adolescence of happy, heavy petting; and after a blissful, hedonistic, and occasionally slutty 20s and 30s, happily settled down with my dear hubby at the tender age of 43. And no, he's not fat, ugly or socially inept.
I thought the article was okay -- no great shakes, but decent. Frankly, the readers' reactions as expressed in the letters section made for more interesting reading. Really, folks, don't y'all think it's time you got over your misconceived beliefs about the allegedly sad, lonely and deprived lives of the overweight? After all, the waistlines of this great nation of ours are in a state of continuous expansion if you believe the CDC and American Heart Association. And yet the schools continue to swell in tandem, with insufficient teachers and too-full classrooms.
Someone out there is reproducing, and there aren't enough thin people or immigrants in the USA to account for the numbers. Oh my goodness ... could it be ... fat people are FUCKING? Who knew?