Letters to the Editor
DurianJoe
Published Letters: 1315 Editor's Choice: 69
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@kdollarsign
[Read the article: Should we euthanize the Yorkie?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What you did to your grandmother's cat was both cruel and cowardly. Cruel, because you tossed an animal out of its home and hoped that it would never come back. Starvation and disease or dying from expsoure, or being run over by a car or killed by a dog -- is that what you were hoping for? Because that's what happens to animals thrown out of homes.
You were a coward, too, for not having the guts to at least take the cat to a shelter and give it up like any decent, responsible, person would do. You took the easy way no, no matter how much that meant the animal would suffer.
The LW should ignore the likes of you.
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Fetboy, the "middleman" may not be such a bad thing.
[Read the article: A new kind of sex tourism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not everyone wants to work out of their house, ya know, and maybe sex workers more than most don't. If we are to legalize prostitution, perhaps brothels are a sound way to go.
Management could provide a safe and clean environment for both the sex worker and the customer. Would a prostitute feel comfortable letting a strange man into her apartment? What if he's a psycho? Would the average man feel comfortable following a prostitute down an alley and into an apartment house? What if you've got Harvey Keitel in his pimp hat and that creepy guy at the end of the hall waiting there for you?
Money changing hands at the front desk would be safer in many ways than between the sex worker and the customer. Having an polite but musclebound doorman could discourage crazies from having their way with the sex worker. Etc., etc.
Just a thought.
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@AKA Smith
[Read the article: A new kind of sex tourism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]AKA, thank you for putting that bobcat out of its misery and for your ethical stand against fur. It's too bad you couldn't release the cat, but I understand. Now, if you wrote that you'd stuck around and fired a few rounds into that fur trapper's ass, I'd feel morally obligated to track you down and buy you a beer.
I'm not a fan of prostitution (I even felt funny when I used to go to nudie bars back in school; it seemed so sleazy), but I don't see the sense of criminalizing it, either. How would it benefit those Kenyan men if they were thrown into jail? Seems to me their lives are pretty bad to begin with. Depriving them, and other prostitutes, of their freedom seems unduly harsh.
I think adults should have the right to choose to prostitute themselves or use prostitutes but, as with other unsavory things, such as picking one's nose in public or voting Republican, society should frown upon it and thereby discourage it.
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@Fetboy
[Read the article: A new kind of sex tourism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry, we disagree. I feel about fur trappers (and anyone in the fur industry, and anyone who wears fur) the way you do about pimps. I especially feel that way about trappers who do not check their traps every day. They're like hunters who only wound an animal and then walk away instead of tracking it down and killing it.
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LW, think it over.
[Read the article: Should we euthanize the Yorkie?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Compare the responses of Cary and the people who are counseling you to show compassion to the dog, versus those who tell you to kill this animal and not worry about it (e.g., GoBucks and BrownEyedGirl, below). Which group would you rather side with?
That dog is part of your family. We don't euthanize family members simply because they become inconvenient.
Good luck.
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Well, Fetboy...
[Read the article: A new kind of sex tourism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think I hate rainforest destroyers more than I hate river polluters.
If we ever got together to do shots to things to hate in this world, we'd probably dissolve our livers.
G'night!
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People who are too poor and/or ignorant to raise children properly should not be allowed to have children.
[Read the article: Falling for StandUpGirl.com]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And that most likely includes most of the pregnant teenage girls who are being encouraged to give birth by anti-abortion nutjobs.
Cycles of abuse and poverty need to be broken, and that means that society should do all it can to prevent childbirth by people who are incapable of providing a decent home for their children. Those of you who think otherwise should consider the abuse and neglect too many children suffer because of their unfit parent(s), and the social ills that those children often create when they get old enough to do real damage to themselves and others.
Sure, even wealthy two parent households can create mutants like George W. Bush, but don't tell me that kids born to poor, uneducated (single) mothers face the same odds. They don't.
When I read about two year-old girls between tortured to death by their poor and ignorant parents, I have no patience for the cretins who counsel clueless teenage girls to give birth, thereby likely ruining their own lives and dooming the life of their child.
Being poor isn't a crime, but a person needs to prove they can provide properly for thier children. Animal shelters screen potential adopters, so why do we let anyone with testes and ovaries create children? If an unfit-to-be-a-parent individual gets their act together, then fine. Until then, give them birth control.
To paraphrase Johnny Rotten: I mean it, man.
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Idiotocracy
[Read the article: Is RU-486 a murder weapon?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lousy movie, despite a great first few minutes, but the theory is sound.
These idiots will keep reproducing, and religious fanatics will keep assisting them in their endeavors. Stupidity, ignorance, and superstition: no wonder so many people doubt evolution.
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Dog bites man. Let's move on.
[Read the article: Alleged hostage taker filed molestation suit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is not unusual for mentally ill people to be drawn to locations of power/powerful people to act out their own personal dramas. Here in D.C. we have loonies attempting to scale the White House fence on a regular basis. I'm just glad nobody was hurt.
Now let's get back to coverage of the nutjobs vying for the Republican nomination.