Letters to the Editor
Herself
Published Letters: 182 Editor's Choice: 17
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Reality Bites
[Read the article: Somebody keeps biting my 2-year-old]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When my brother was 2 1/2, he bit me so hard, it drew blood. Apparently, it was a "phase". Next time he did that, I popped him in the chops. No more biting.
Go to the zoo and watch the chimps. They scream, bite, pull each others' hair, and no one dies. Its amazing.
It also makes me glad I'm not a parent.
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Sucky working conditions and greed
[Read the article: Breast milk on board]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]WTF is it with women pumping breast milk on business trips? Its apalling on many levels that women are travelling for business while the kid (or kids, thanks Clomid) is/are still on breast milk. In European countries, women get decent maternity leave to take care of the little guys. Here, women get some small, token amount of time off. Also, why can't their employers work around this and let them work at the home office and not travel for a while?
But then, there are the careerists, who think they are balancing career and family, but are actually screwing the kids for a buck.
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Age please?
[Read the article: My boyfriend is checking out chicks while I'm standing right there!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The guy's behavior sounds really juvenile and clueless. If he's under 25, its immaturity. If he's over 25 and under 30, he needs course correction. If he's over 30, find someone else.
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Rebates
[Read the article: Apple gives iPhone early adopters $100 in store credit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why should these early adopters get a rebate? No other early adopters get rebates.
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How many people
[Read the article: Barbie's home ruled a toxic site]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]are actually hurt from these toys? It seems like every time some deeply stupid or undersupervised kid eats a toy or gets impaled on it, yet another product is yanked off the shelves. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to know that babies swallow everything they can get their little hands on. You also don't have to be a rocket scientist to teach kids what is food and what isn't. This is beyond the lead in paint issue. This is an issue of parents not sussing out the appropriateness of a toy and not supervising (or arranging for supervision) of their kids.
Back to the lead paint thing - we need to support EU and US made companies by buying their stuff and take the time to boycott Chinese made products until they get their fecal matter grouped.
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Screen Too Tiny - Fugaddaboudit
[Read the article: $1, $2 or $5 -- how much would you pay to watch TV?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am not paying *anything* to watch something on a 2" by 2" screen.
As for NBC, I can see "Heroes" for free over the internet. All I have to do is put up with a brief ad for a blue car.
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What ever happened to stuffed animals?
[Read the article: Baby's first lead]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why are people giving infants toy phones and plastic things they can bash each other on the head with? Seriously. Our kids are pretty stripped down as personalities go and are closer to our primate roots than adults are. (Except at football and rugby games.) The first thing a small child does with a hard toy is try to bash some other kid's brains out with it. If there are no other kids, they go after the dog or cat or mummy's kneecaps. When the toy is not being bashed on someone or something, it is hard and unpleasant under the feet.
I don't recall stuffed animals being made with lead paint. Why not get those for Junior? Steiff, being up to date, has a wonderful stuffed Rottweiler, for those who love stylish dogs (http://tinyurl.com/2dyuck). Also, there are plain wood blocks
http://littlefolks.stores.yahoo.net/medounblwicr.html, which were a big hit in my house. (Good for bashing Fido with.) An ordinary baseball is still made with animal hide.
That's just the tip of the iceberg. There are also homemade toys, like two chopsticks and a Quaker Oats container, going on ebay to find a Raggedy Ann sewing pattern, getting the book on how to make sock puppets, and using some lumber and garden sand to make a sandbox...
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Chips Ahoy
[Read the article: Mice studies show RFID tags cause cancer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So, you get a medical chip with your data. Childhood leukemia, seizure disorder, STD from same sex partner (oopsie), arthritis, piles, vapours and spleen. All your allergies are in there.
You're in a bar, someone sits too close to you. You move. The person leaves, goes to the car and downloads your RFID number. Then, the person hacks into Google, who wants to keep all of our data because they're so unspeakably cool, and has a lot of information you don't want them to have.
You're in a job interview, you meet all the qualifications for the job, you walk really close to someone in the hallway accidentally, Oops excuse me they say. You get a letter saying they won't hire you. They won't tell you that they found out Blue Cross won't insure you. They just politely say they've already found someone, etc.
As for the cancers, it is pretty well known that lab animals are raised in such a way that strains of the animals will show familial traits. Perhaps these mice are prone to sarcoma from injections, skin trauma or foreign objects. Many cats and dogs are implanted. I believe cattle and horses are, as well. No word on an epidemic there.
I would decline a chip. A medic-alert bracelet should have that kind of information.
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Letting them rest is a lost concept.
[Read the article: TV Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not only did I not need to see that photo, I also don't need to know how much the guy got paid for it, how much the guy got paid for writing about it, how much the station stands to make money off it.....
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Laptops
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I tend to be the one sitting next to the exit in my natural fiber clothes and flat shoes. If I ever find myself behind that douchebag who thinks he needs to rescue his laptop, he will find it inserted up his rectum, along with my left boot.
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Hitlery, you forgot something
[Read the article: The scruffy charms of an insecure president]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the childrunnnn and "terists" and the Baby Jesus.
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I'm off the hook
[Read the article: Conversations: Tim Gunn]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm in IT *and* I am a dog trainer. So, I can wear jeans and tees all I want!
Thanks, Tim. You've saved me!
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Its an outrage! Not.
[Read the article: "All those white guys"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sorry. Am I supposed to get outraged or something? I missed the memo.