Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 182 Editor's Choice: 17
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Another option
[Read the article: Public bathroom dilemma: Paper or air?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have perennially bad hair. Conditioner doesn't get the frizzies out. Every time I go to the restroom, I look at my frizzy hair while I wash my hands. On a whim, I shook the water off my hands and ran them on the frizz zones of my hair. It works! It smooths out my hair for about an hour or two.
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Turnabout is fair play
[Read the article: Clinton, McCain and the B-word]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm tired of all women being called "bitches". I say we go for the hip hop origin of the casual use and call all men "pimps". Or, we can go all Caucasian and call every single male a "prick" or "swingin' dick".
I'd bet the "bitch" thing would dry up pretty quickly and dog owners would be happy to have their word back.
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Pump Up The Booga-Booga
[Read the article: CSI: Wall Street]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Someone's getting everyone's panties in a twist because hands are going to come out, asking for a bailout from the government. The more ooga-booga, the more the money (which we don't have) flows into those banks. The Chinese are going to dump us! Oooga Booga! Developers can't unload ticky tacky houses! Ooga Booga! Jobs! The economy! Oooga Booga! Now, Gimme Gimme!
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Fluffy kittens
[Read the article: My boss forwards fluffy kitten e-mails!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I work at a large corporation and the non-technical people who are not managers send out hoax notices about suffering animals ALL THE TIME. They fall for every single one of them. Since I volunteer with animal welfare organizations, I feel it is my duty to investigate each one (it takes all of 2 minutes) and send out a rebuttal with a link to snopes or the results of my phone call to the institution involved. I regularly submit content to snopes as well.
At this point, I get email from people asking me to evaluate messages they receive before they send anything to the company. It helps that other employees have responded similarly to other hoax messages.
I do not know what kind of organization the letter writer works for. If it is a small office, just delete the mail, because the manager has a proportionately larger influence on the writer's continued employment. If it is a large corporation, it has a costly impact on productivity to send garbage out to the company. A snopes pointer, *NOT* CC-ed to the rest of the company would be more diplomatic. It would offer the manager an opportunity to correct the mistaken message.
I would certainly not quit my job over having a feather brained boss, especially if that feather brained boss is OK in other regards.
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I'm in your corner on this one
[Read the article: More on why Rowling is wrong on the Potter lexicon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Rowling should pay the guy for lovingly indexing all of her fiction. Its a good PR tool and the geeks would love it. She could always ask for a cut of the proceeds and it would be a big win all around. I smell studio lawyers in the whole deal, quite honestly.
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Cell Phones Are OK By Me
[Read the article: God bless cellphones]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]About 6 or 7 years ago, my car broke down in a crummy neighborhood. I had to walk to a friend's house and call AAA. Then, I walked back. 45 minutes later, I walked to my friend's house and asked when the hell the truck would arrive. They had not even paged a truck yet. I walked back to my car and sat in it and fell asleep for another 45 minutes. After AAA towed my car and dropped me off, at a very late hour, I meditated on my beater of a car. I could sink money into keeping it on the road, but it was at the point where it was breaking down every six months. I did not want to buy a new car. I did not want to find myself on 580 with no pay phone or friend in walking distance.
Faced with the expense of buying another car and getting a cell phone, I got a cell phone. The next time the car broke down, I got to sit in the car, listen to the radio and nag AAA.
Plus, it looked like Captain Kirk's communicator. I half expected Nichelle Nichols' mellifluous voice on the other end of the airwaves.
One funny thing about it is that I don't like nattering on it like Keillor. I guess I am not that old or that young.
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Poor Maureen Dowd
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton: Better as a flight attendant?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]She's already established herself as someone who can't get a date to save her life. So, she's going to keep beating that drum until someone gives her a pity fuck. I say we all chip in to rent her a nice cabana boy. Maybe she'll lay off accomplished women and address real feminist issues.
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Rates
[Read the article: Tips on how better to exploit the working poor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There is no excuse for those rip off rates. I can't believe anyone would be an apologist for those thieves. When you get down to it, most people are honest and it is very easy to blackball people who are not. Calculate the risk, add *reasonable* profit, and you are not looking at 36%.
Good for those guys. I am glad the landsharks have their panties in a twist. Unfortunately, it takes more than an e-wedgie for crooks and liars to grow a conscience.
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I agree with zenbooty
[Read the article: John McCain, selective denouncer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You don't castigate your supporters. He answered the question as if it were a serious one and did not indicate agreement with the use of the term. Its one of those damned if you do and damned if you don't moments. He might not use that word, but other people will, so he gets tarred with that brush.
Of course, I think the woman asking the question was probably Dick Cheney in drag.