Letters to the Editor
mikesf13
Published Letters: 5
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Hey, Sloane, I liked it
[Read the article: The best-laid plans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe it's because I've written my own "drivel" or maybe it's because I had no idea this was a genre, but I enjoyed this enough to forward it. Well written, kept me going, liked the insights. Believe me, I can be plenty harsh about stories of unreflective entitled people, but this didn't ring any of those bells. I just related. I never found one-night stands as straightforward as a lot of other letter writers, and I'm a forty-something gay man, so I take the "just do it" comments with a grain of salt. Or envy, not quite sure. But, Sloane, you obviously struck a nerve, so good on ya.
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You got that right
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe the hallmark of being powerful is not that you are able to do wrong to others, it's that you can insist they have no feelings about it.
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Good job
[Read the article: What every freelancer should know]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I couldn't agree more. It took me years to figure all that out, or at least to start doing it. I'd second all the skepticism about the NASE. For me, keeping self employment simple comes down to saving receipts, putting 30% of each paycheck in a tax account (which often leaves leftovers for the IRA), and entering the receipts into Quickbooks (indifferent customer support, but I'm stuck) before filing. I find that easier than doing it all at once at the end of the year.
Mike
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A positive move
[Read the article: Taking back the debate over Israel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wish J St every success and I'm glad they're around. Such organizations help me reconcile the extremely high number of close Jewish friends I have with the fact that I have come to uniformly dislike every elected Jewish official I know of, without exception, even ones I formerly (and ignorantly) voted for. I am not a friend of Israel at all, though I used to be a supporter. I do support the right of Jews to live in Israel safely, securely, with self-determination, only not at the expense of Palestinians' right to the same. My father was abducted as a forced laborer for the Nazis and barely survived while my grandfather and two uncles died in Soviet camps, so it burns me up to see people USE the holocaust as an excuse to keep others in camps. It's disgusting and makes me despise Israelis. I hope they all work it out and live happily ever after (and indeed believe someday they will), but I will never like or respect them (or Hamas) and will never EVER again vote Democrat (or Republican). Hey, it's an emotional issue, what can I say.
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There are not 50 Democrats in the Senate
[Read the article: Things that don't exist in Harry Reid's world]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There are 49.