Letters to the Editor
MarieA
Published Letters: 264 Editor's Choice: 19
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Other people don't notice as much as you think
[Read the article: Should I get my breasts enlarged?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The crux of your letter is that breast implants would make you feel sexier, more attractive, more in line with cultural norms, thus you would feel better about yourself which would make you interact more positively with other people.
The glib answer, but still true is, try making yourself feel that without the boob job.
I recently saw a TV show in which a woman had lost several hundred pounds. She was still quite overweight but she bought a 2 piece swimsuit and was proud of the fact that she could fit into it, went swimming and had a grand time. If you or I saw her without benefit of her backstory, we would likely think, there's quite an overweight woman wearing a bikini! If I were that fat, I'd never leave the house!
But she thought she was sexy, she acted accordingly and she was sexy!
Practice acting as though you had the new boobs. Walk a little sexier. Touch people on the arm or hand a little more. Listen to them. Look them in the eye. Wear clothes that really fit you (not hooker clothes). Get a really good haircut (people notice hair more than anything else).
Try that first because, here's the thing. Most people don't notice other people. If you get new boobs, most people are not going to notice the boobs. If you behave differently, they're more likely to respond to that.
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Smile!
[Read the article: The great G-spot debate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What's with the picture, BBC?
While I think it's likely that essentially all women have a G-spot, the missionary position wouldn't hit it.
But the G-spot did lead to the funniest moment I've ever had in a bookstore when I overhead this exchange (absolutely true story):
Male bookstore employee: May I help you?
Woman customer: I'm looking for that book about the G-spot.
Employee: Let's see. It should be be right here, but I can't seem to find it.
Customer: I can't find it either. That's why I need the book!
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No! I can't take it!
[Read the article: GOP politics in a nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't make me watch these ads. They make me SICK.
If I were a praying woman, I'd pray that the American people in general and our elected representatives in particular would not succumb to such ridiculousness.
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Lies, oft repeated
[Read the article: McConnell/Mukasey: Eavesdropping outside of FISA is "illegal"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This whole incident, indeed, the very mark of the Bush Administration since 9/11, is neatly summed up by Karen Kwiatkowski, a retired USAF lieutenant colonel, in a recent speech at Virginia Tech. First she quotes Aldous Huxley:
"... Aldous Huxley, from his Propaganda in a Democratic Society:
'In their propaganda today's dictators rely for the most part on repetition, suppression and rationalization – the repetition of catchwords which they wish to be accepted as true, the suppression of facts which they wish to be ignored, the arousal and rationalization of passions which may be used in the interests of the Party or the State.' "
She continues:
"One need only to remember George W. Bush’s famous line, in Rochester, New York on May 24, 2005, and I quote: 'See in my line of work, you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.' "
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Sad but no surprise
[Read the article: A.J. Rossmiller: "Still Broken"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is an unfortunate consequence of the political process that everything within its purview will become politicized. This is the danger of expanding government power. This is the danger that the Founding Fathers warned of they attempted to limit the size of government through the Constitution, when they warned of standing armies, when they instituted a balance of power.
You can have better government but you cannot scrub politics clean of politics. Like a lion, you can only attempt to control it, not tame it. You can only limit its scope, not its essential nature.
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Constitution? Apparently they don't need no stinkin' Constitution!
[Read the article: Osama bin Laden's "Second Life"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You rather blithely throw in that spying on Second Life communications would be unconstitutional and imply that the government couldn't do it.
"Any monitoring by law enforcement of innocuous activity and communication in a virtual world, conducted broadly and without oversight, would be unconstitutional and could invade the privacy of millions of persons."
While it is unconstitutional, as well as unconscionable, the government already broadly monitors our online communications. Oversight, of which, at present there is none, is largely pro forma and a joke.
Perhaps you should read your fellow columnist Glenn Greenwald's entries more carefully.
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The problem with Gardasil shots
[Read the article: A vaccine for gentlemen]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wouldn't hesitate to inoculate my son, but the problem with the shots is that they require a series of 3 fairly painful shots. Even when it is covered by insurance, it is a nuisance to have to do these follow-up visits.
As busy as most people are, are a lot of parents really going to do it?
If they can get the vaccine down to one shot, it will increase participation.
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Cultural Commentators
[Read the article: Curious George]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you're "... not accustomed to thinking of comedians as cultural commentators" then you haven't been paying much attention to comedy.
What else is comedy but poking fun (and thus observing and commenting upon) cultures?