Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 182 Editor's Choice: 17
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Let someone else train the biter
[Read the article: The cat whisperer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I adopted a kitten who was taken from his mother too early. I knew this because he sucked on my face at night. He was also a tiny terror. Everyone I knew, including my shrink, told me to get him a kitten companion, so he could bite the other kitten and not me. I reluctantly took in another kitten. Interestingly enough, the kitten did, indeed teach the other one about holding back on biting. They drag race with each other and entertain each other. It required minimal effort on my part.
However, I have to say that the plan for letting the cat think he's a successful predator has been mentioned in articles here and there and it certainly looks like it works.
I'd like to add that felis sylvestris cattus is not a solitary animal in the wild. First of all, the species is no longer "wild", but there are members of the species who are feral. Ferals can, and do, live in colonies.
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Coulda been worse
[Read the article: Charlie Rose suffers black eye in saving MacBook Air]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He could have been chewing gum at the same time.
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Asking your son for permission to drive if you yourself are under 30?
[Read the article: Saudi women's road rage could finally pay off]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Piece of cake. The kid can't be all that big yet. Just threaten him with a headlock and a hard noogie or no Wii for a week.
Seriously, though, they have to start somewhere. It looks goofy to us, but its a baby step in the right direction.
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Terrorism or Primate Curiosity?
[Read the article: Clinton's passport file breached as well]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I recall reading ages ago that the IRS had to set up some kind of safeguard for curious little monkeys looking at movie stars' tax forms. I don't think that having an employee look at a public figure's passport application in a training situation should be a firing offense. I don't recall anything extra creepy in my passport application. (Height and weight? I'd be curious about Mrs. Clinton's dress size, but that's because I'm a girl.) I always thought being able to see stuff like that was a perq of the job. Maybe the real problem is that the government is outsourcing everything instead of vetting and hiring their own people.
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Brussels Sprouts
[Read the article: Real men eat asparagus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They're evil. They're sulphurous fart bombs on a plate. Asparagus makes your pee smell funny. Maybe guys don't care about clearing the room, but I sure do.
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It won't change
[Read the article: The funny thing about black men in dresses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For those of us who have seen a fair number of shows and movies with men in drag, there is a new generation of people who have not. They'll find it just as fresh and titillating as we did when we were, oh, 16 years old. There will always be a market for it and Hollywood markets to the date night crowd (teenaged males). They call it "asses in seats". I say that its "asses" in both meanings of the word.
There's a sad thing where producers seem to believe a male comedian in drag to be more marketable than a female comedian. I'd rather see Whoopi Goldberg being a lunatic than a man in drag being a lunatic. I've seen some heavyset female comedians on Comedy Central in little segments who can be such a hoot and they get almost no air time. Roseanne( a heavyset white woman) was very lucky to get on the air at all. Even then, she went through a total body mod during the run of her program. But, they serve it and we gladly eat it.
Interestingly enough, the Monty Python crowd did drag simply because they were understaffed. They had a couple of women (Carol Cleveland, for example), but did the female roles themselves. They weren't particularly mocking, either. Some of the female drag roles (especially when Palin and Idle did them) were not unattractive at all. However, I kept wishing they could have afforded to hire a few middle aged ladies and suburban housewife types.
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I'm suffering that, too
[Read the article: My childhood dreams are shattering as I approach adulthood]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I used to be so imaginative, but I don't have an imagination anymore - well, maybe I do, but its pretty derivative. I attribute it to my desire to fit in, increase the pool of people I can date, succeed in business, and not be singled out for a schoolyard-style pummeling. I've been feeling so bereft, that I am thinking of chucking all that and returning to the fascinations of my earlier years - the Society for Creative Anachronism and science fiction conventions. I understand there is new stuff for the 21st century - Burning Man, Steampunk and various other things that the vast majority think are "nerdy".
Maybe when the house is paid off....
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No difference
[Read the article: An Olympic disgrace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you saw that happen to a chicken or lamb or goat, it would have been a little gross, but you'd have eaten it. There's no difference between raising a dog for food and raising a chicken for food. That's just a raw reality. It even sounds like the dog had a good time and was treated well. What I object to are tightly caged animals who suffer during their short lives before they die, cruel and inefficient slaughter methods, poor husbandry, poaching and exploitation of endangered species.
In this country, horsemeat is banned from the table. They've had to loosen it a big for zoos, because the closest thing to zebra meat is horsemeat and lions need to eat something. Horses still continue to be raced to death and premarin horses continue to be used in Canada for medicine sold here in the US. But, sentimentality prevents the meat from being used to feed people.
It makes no sense. Why is one animal more deserving of our love than another? Why not love all of them?
And what's with the Chinese being so provincial? If they want to host the world at their table, they'd better learn what we're willing to eat.
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Mmm chemicals
[Read the article: It's no jet pack, but it ain't bad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lovely, kids are going to buy strange stuff from China because the school administration refuses to deal with the fact that little girls are encouraged to look like hookers from the age of 3 onward.
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One thing that makes me so happy about this election
[Read the article: John McCain on the mortgage crisis: "Any assistance must be temporary"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All of the candidates are smart cookies. I just wish McCain was more for the environment. I'd cross party lines and throw the swtich for him if he can green up.