Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 278 Editor's Choice: 5
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On Us and the Neighbors.
[Read the article: A Marshall Plan for Mexico]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]-Or South Africa...in those days...and the rest of Africa.
-Really a matter of concentrations, osmotic gradients
and membrane/borders..all going, of course,to demographic shifts.
-Another point for 'self-organizing principles' and their 'emergent phenomena'.
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On sending the girls away..there's always Antigonish
[Read the article: The children they gave away]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]'New Waterford Girl' gets more impact.
Author's right ..growing up 50's/60's...unquestioning acceptance,convention and compliance.
It was simply 'the way things were'.
Former patriarch,well-off white guy having been raised in precisely that ever so 'secure' & self-satisfied bubble.
Kind of ashamed now at my own oblivious conformity.
Better times now.
Jas`e Taylor MD(ret.)
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C. sordelli
[Read the article: Dithering as usual at the FDA]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Page...
Has anyone looked at the douching practices of these gals?
My interest would be in normal or 'disturbed' vaginal flora...the 'good bacteria' thinking.
I really think a'probiotic' approach might be useful...to think about at least
And I see in the NYT yest. that you gals still can't tell your perineal orifices apart.
according to one benighted Ob-Gyn.
Be well
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Paragraph 5
[Read the article: Who will pay the climate change piper?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Exactly the same line of dissimulation and deceit used by Big Tobacco in refuting a CAUSAL link from smoking or chewing to lung (and many other) cancers...
Something like... "there has never been direct cause scientifically established between the use of tobacco, tobacco products or formulations and the occurence of cancers of any kind"
Truth-ish, as far as it went, but at base, a lie.
The debater/afficianado-of-argument will have a name for this kind of mendacious obfuscation.
That term, as an established feature and evil of The Tobacco Industry -by extension to Exxon/CEI et al- should be gotten out and repeated and repeated and repeated.
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Venal...venial?
[Read the article: Lay and Skilling: Guilty, guilty, guilty!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Andrew...
Never've written you before;
But want to express a real gratitude for your
clarifying for me that which is 'globalization' and that which 'the Washington Consensus' is not.
I was way confused (perhaps there is purpose in perpetuating such a confusion?).
And would like also to thank you for bringing Mr. Stiglitz into my thinking. Big plus.
And finally you might do a piece sometime on what is:
The CNN anchor so reknowned nowadays for 'border security'
but who also decries 'Corporate Supremacists' and,
in very populist tones, cries out, in cadenced 'plaint, for the vanishing American! middle class.
But...I am brought regularly to thinking of him in 'Military-Industrial Complex' colours?
He also is known (to me at least) as the CNN anchor who never finished his conversation with Mr. Stiglitz.
Why is that?
The 'subjected' will inquire for itself.
Thanks again for all you do
James Taylor/Montana
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On shedding...
[Read the article: Are women attached to their periods?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We...an older generation (lay and professional) were taught that as the uterine lining (endometrial) became
-unemployed- it also and pari passu became 'fouled', unclean and so, needed out.
Entrenched beliefs....received wisdoms.
The menstruation/isolation sheds of older or more primitive cultures also catered to some of this but actually had most of their benefit in limiting perhaps riskier sexual contact in that 'period'.
At least I so believe..as a physician....
But don't actually know...Is there benefit, as for sort of an internal 'skin'..of regular defoliation?
And with none of this going to the anemia to which menstruating women are prone...OR their avoiding iron- overload syndromes...and stuff.
Need some science here folks...not lore.
Salon could do that for us...and will, I'm sure, as able.
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So , Tim, you're sayin' ?
[Read the article: What Tom DeLay can teach the Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Using the word 'principled' in the same breath as 'Tom DeLay.............
As if.
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Balancing the 'tit' for the 'tat'
[Read the article: Shrinking the neo-orientalist Gap]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And for every one of those immiserated sweat-shoppers...
There's an American in 'Ankle-Sox', Nebraska who's just gotten his nice new shiny (smells good, works good!) iPod from UPS.
Eventually we balance...or we'll all suffer.
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Beatin' breasts.
[Read the article: Ironing out those bothersome breasts]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This going to come across as ..very...cold.
But what a great opportunity - if you could secure a
'population'- to finally see if there is a genuine connexion between BrCa & trauma.
There is a long speculative history.
It would take long term followup.
That... implies recolonizing Africa in some guise, or another.
Just thinkin'.
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On why the GDP sux
[Read the article: Enron economics]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Because those 'earnings' grow that benighted index.
An index that never really reflects that which is the lot of the ordinary American.
Innit?
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Exactly the same as shades....
[Read the article: Revisiting the veil]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Faces and expressions are central to human perceptions going both to communication & critical (in the best sense)
appraisals...person,intent, reliability etc.
Physiognomy is not at all dead.
We routinely and biologically 'profile'.
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Cat poop...
[Read the article: What else we're reading]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]T. gondii...
Probably better associated with schizophrenia.
Wolbachia was the parasite assocated (in the mouse, I think)with promoting male offspring.
{unless T.gondii and Wolbachia are related)
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Why -in god's name - are we not talking....
[Read the article: "Stay the course"? Who said anything about "staying the course"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]FLIP-FLOP?
[funny thing, the term captions this letter, but is never seen in the body of Tim's piece. Anyway get that phrase back in their faces..alla time!)
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going...or not...and where?
[Read the article: Which restroom should transgender people use?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Didn't the Japanese until quite recently have public toilets...squat pissoirs actually...totally unisex?
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'joyful' ?
[Read the article: Edwards vs. Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]just kinda Christmas'y, maybe
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the Machines in the 13th
[Read the article: The Senate is set, but some House races are still undecided]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Has anybody made a big deal yet about 'chain-of-evidence'
handling of the suspect machines....those things should be in a vault somewhere with a bipartisan guard-detail in charge...jeez!
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Early identification of the genetically prone...
[Read the article: Winey play dates]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]With advances in genomics and its applications to the individual, we'll begin to know who simply can never afford more than one or two runs at the 'buzz'.
We exist ab initio, boys 'n girls, as dyed-in-the-wool alcoholic, or not.
We just need to know -early- when we're inherently susceptible....like juvenile diabetes.
My Mom was one.... brilliant Wall-street lawyer...chivvied into suburban motherhood (mistake retrospectively) died at 36.. direct, booze.
I was one, male, drinking-to-the-buzz at 11.
Intermittently alcoholic 'til early in my 60s. Got in the way of a medical career that might have gone somewhere
Identify early...the tools are just around the corner.
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Ideologue...and probably dangerous for that alone.
[Read the article: A man who hated government]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In one paragraph, Mr. DeLong uses three words which betray that which drove (inspirited?) Mr. Friedman.
"His worldview began with a bedrock belief.....
a trust in free markets....
on top of that was layered a powerful conviction...."
'Trust', 'conviction' & 'belief' are keywords and
hallmarks (or warning signs) of the ideologue.
That said...and in substantial but incomplete disagreement with Mr Friedman's thesis...I would wonder if much of economic theory is actually just belief system.
IF that is true, we need more data and less 'religion'...
And will then find actual enlightenment & economic truth.