Letters to the Editor
DurianJoe
Published Letters: 1310 Editor's Choice: 69
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Looks like the honeymoon is over.
[Read the article: Maliki: 3,721 U.S. dead = no standing to complain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I always thought that the U.S. - Iraqi goverment marriage was a bad idea, and now it looks like the couple will be splitting up after only a few years. Shame.
Gonna be a messy divorce, that's for sure.
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Anonymous
[Read the article: Can a virus make you fat?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can see Jack the Ripper saying the same thing.
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Awesome-o, my female cat is the lady of the house.
[Read the article: Pit bulls are innocent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Even my wife admits that. My female cat's brother is quite the handsome gent, too.
I can't see what you're complaining about (you wrote, "I'm sure your pit is quite the "lady." (Really, ARE we equating dogs to humans now?"). Maybe when we stop comparing men to tigers or lions or bears or dogs or pigs or chickens or wolves or jackals, and women to bitches or cats or cows, or anyone as vultures or rabbits, etc., etc., you might have a point, but really, what's good for the goose is good for the gander, if you know what I mean.
If a pit bull or other dog that attacked someone can be rehabilitated and adopted out to a responsible and good home, why would you object to that? Is the death sentence for dogs meant to be revenge for a crime? Do you really want to open up that can of worms (ah, another animal metaphor)?
As for the relative importance of peoples' pets to other people, like I said earlier, depends on the pet, depends on the person.
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Brightstar, you make me chuckle.
[Read the article: No visible panty lines]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To stare or not to stare at the cleavage or tight top, that is the question.
It's true, we men are beseiged on all sides by copious amounts of flesh and tightly packaged booty. Staring is bad, looking is fine, getting caught looking is funny or embarrassing, depending on your mood.
Brightstar, think of it as every other double-edged temptation in this crazy world of ours. All that stuff that's fun to eat, like chips and candy, will make you sick and fat. Booze will kill your liver, smokes will give you cancer, loud music will dull your hearing, etc., etc.
But consider this too: if all women covered their bodies from head to toe, then eventually the slightest revelation of skin (a shin!) or hint of curve would have the same damn effect as all the revealing stuff you see now. Just laugh it off and try to be discrete about the ogling.
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That's interesting, Brightstar
[Read the article: Pedophile blogger unfairly targeted?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I didn't name you as one of the woman-haters, yet you assumed I was referring to you. Hmmm. And look pal, I'm trying to be nice to you lately, so lay off the personal insults, okay? Besides, my brain ain't feminism marinated, it's bourbon marinated. Big difference.
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This is why we need to take cruelty to animals seriously.
[Read the article: Pit bulls are innocent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Allie wrote, "Man A buys a guard dog, guaranteed vicious, and trains it to attack a man armored in carpet remnants...Keeps dog chained in a parking lot, without shelter...dog escapes [and mauls someone. His fate? $50 fine and some bad newspaper publicity...The pit bull - bred to be vicious, trained to attack humans by savage mistreatment, chained in a yard - his fate? Death."
It is time for people to recognize that cruelty to animals isn't just a crime against animals, but against all of us. The issue is intentional cruelty. People who are cruel to animals are often cruel to people, too, so let's treat cruelty to animals as the serious crime that it is and make it a felony. That junkyard owner belongs in prison. His $50 fine is nothing compared to the pain suffered by the mauled person, and the death of a dog whose only crime was to be abused badly enough to want to abuse others. If more animal abusers are given serious sentences of years, not months (and certainly not must measly fines), we can achieve a safer and saner world. You'll have fewer 4-legged animals hurting people, and fewer 2-legged SOB's making life miserable for everyone and everything.
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Bob in Pacifica, take a deep breath and a step back.
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You wrote, "There are people here who want to TORTURE Michael Vick. I'm sorry, I don't see the high ground underneath them. And within much of that hate is racism."
C'mon, think about it. EVERY TIME you read about a story where an animal or a child is tortured, or where a woman is brutally raped, or where a nice man is brutally murdered for a few dollars in his pocket, regardless of the race of the perpetrator, scores of people respond by saying something along the lines of, "Just give me 5 minutes alone with that guy and a hammer." Next time you read about a little girl getting murdered by a sicko white man, read the comments people send in. You'll find lots of references to hurting him and killing him in the worst possible way.
In the USA, people love dogs. When they hear that someone tortures and kill dogs, they want to tear him apart. Doesn't matter what the guy's race is. That's not racism, that's a common human response. And you know that in actuality, few if anyone would really, if given the chance, torture the perpetrator. That, fortunately, is a common trait among decent people, too, and most people are decent. The Vicks of this world are seen as monsters precisely because they deviate from decent, human (in the best sense of the word) behavior.
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must share, look at it another way.
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Our society has made the decision to extend the protection of our laws to dogs and other animals, and that is why Vick deserves to go to prison.
Rather than complain about this, be glad you live in a society compassionate enough and enlightened enough to want to protect animals from Vick's kind of sadism.
Yes, it's the same society that gives us Paris and Lindsay and the other celebutards; nothing is perfect.
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Mr. Shapiro, you overlooked one big thing.
[Read the article: Fred Thompson's revealing back story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What would be refreshing to the point of stunning would be if Fred Thompson himself still exhibited that kind of conscience. Instead the man, at least in his public, political life today, is as dishonest and disreputable as Karl Rove at his worst.
In other words, Fred Thompson is a perfect representative of today's godawful Republican party. He deserves to be their candidate, and they deserve him right back.