Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 217 Editor's Choice: 4
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My cat likes to bite (hard)
[Read the article: The cat whisperer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...when being pet. And not in an "ouch, I don't like the way you're touching me" kind of way; but in an "Oh yeah! Baby likes it rough!" kind of way.
Anybody care to cure that?
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Which monologue was it?
[Read the article: I did a vagina monologue but didn't tell my husband!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That needs to be taken into account, no? I pray it wasn't "Reclaiming 'Cunt'".
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"The Barack Obama depicted in the Republican playbook..."
[Read the article: The GOP attack plan for Barack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, are those characterizations accurate, or not? Did he (e.g.) push for licensing illegals, or didn't he? "Depicted" implies dishonesty. You should back that up, shouldn't you? "Playbook" also implies using smears that are without merit. If he is the most liberal senator, why wouldn't that be a legitimate issue?
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I can't help but think that...
[Read the article: Robbing the cradle of civilization, five years later]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]a lot of this is melodramatic piling on. I'm not defending the war. And maybe a few of the poster are actually professional historians/archaeologists who would understandably be upset. I'm a Classicist with similarly geeked-out concerns with little relevance to the majority of the planet.
But I'll bet that the majority of posters are anti-war people who otherwise couldn't give two shits about the Warka Vase, and wouldn't know a cylinder seal from a Milesian ivory dildo if it was shoved up their asses.
But the war is bad! So I'm going to gnash my teeth over some missing artifact that I've never heard of and would never have wanted to lay eyes on before I knew it was missing! Arrgh!
Get over yourselves.
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Truman...
[Read the article: The GOP attack plan for Barack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I love this "context" argument re: Rev. Wright. Anyone who subscribes to his AIDS and drug conspiracies is simply batshit nuts. Period. All points of view are not created equal. Of course associating with such a person is a political embarassment.
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@Feelfree and brightstar
[Read the article: Robbing the cradle of civilization, five years later]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The point I'm making is that I suspect for many, the antiquities aren't really the issue. It's the war. The antiquities merely provide another opportunity to decry the war (which I am not defending). This museum stuff seems the least of the problems. The Colossus of Rhodes is gone, but somehow we're carrying on. Let's get some perspective, people. I would be interested to see a catalogue of what is still missing. 5,000 is a large number, but I'll bet a large portion of that is (comparatively speaking) junk. Not every holdling in a museum is the equivalent of (e.g.) the Parthenon friezes
Again, I know there are some people (mostly professionals) who are really into this stuff. Most are not. I'll put it another way. At a large Classics meeting some years back, I said to a colleague: "Do you know what would happen if this hotel exploded and all 500 of us Classicists were killed? Nothing."
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@Walter
[Read the article: Robbing the cradle of civilization, five years later]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you for making my point for me. Several times.
P.S. Your psychological diagnosis of me is the *definition* of irony.
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Dump him.
[Read the article: My boyfriend won't give me his apartment key]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The guy's a selfish prick. Even if he caves on this (refusing sex works), his trust/power issues will resurface again and again.
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Anyone with a lick of sense...
[Read the article: Would you please get out of my swimming pool!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]would know that "Come over any time! No, really!" shouldn't be followed to the letter. A good guest doesn't take advantage.
Of course, when you throw a familial relationship into the mix, all bets are off. Leave it to jackass cousins et al. to assume that shared DNA supercedes good manners.
Next time it happens, let 'em know what's what. And tell your husband to grow a pair.
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"made it seem like that's exactly what he was saying"?
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That *is* exactly what he was saying. 9/11 wasn't a foreseeable consequence, it was a moral imperative. Why do some people think they can't simultaneously feel that the Iraq War was a huge mistake *and* that Wright is barking mad?
The US government invented HIV to kill blacks? are you shitting me? Oh, but that's understandable because of Tuskegee. But when I white person makes a similarly batshit statement based on the personal experience of some white folks...well, he's just an asshole.
If you're going to defend Wright, then defend what he said -- not what you wish he'd said.
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Mind your own business
[Read the article: The strange case of midnight renegade oleander gentrification camouflage]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just like your gardener neighbor should have minded hers.
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Typo
[Read the article: Limbaugh off the hook for voter fraud ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's spelled "innocent", not "let off the hook." Surely you know the difference between the two. For example: Bill Clinton was let off the hook for perjury, whereas Hillary is completely innocent where the topic of dodging sniper fire is concerned.
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Just take one from a local hospital
[Read the article: I want a baby so badly it scares me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Based on what I see on the news, it's not that hard. Just remember to sell the pregnancy before you snatch the li'l tike.
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Tell them...
[Read the article: I'm embarrassed to admit I met my guy online]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]it started off as a mugging, but it turned out you both had a thing for old movies and knishes and now here you are! Head over heels in love!
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Wait. What!
[Read the article: My new start-up: I Google For You]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's still March on the west coast with hours to spare. Damn. Well played.
Please disregard the e-mail I sent you.
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Anyone else get the feeling...
[Read the article: McCain's Vietnam obsession]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that President McCain's first order of business will be pulling out of Iraq in order to redeploy to Vietnam so we can get that monkey off our back once and for all?
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Electro Robot
[Read the article: Is the Internet eroding America's Puritanism -- or making it worse?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What internet are you surfing. I'm into some pretty fucked up shit, but there's no shortage of websites that make me blanch. We live in two Americas. The straights and the kinks.
And there's LOTS of overlap.
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Why would you be "devastated" if...
[Read the article: Buckle up those fetuses!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]to lose a baby pre-term if it's by defintion not a real person? I'm pro-choice, but let's not kid ourselves. Aborting a fetus is the taking of human life. The pro-choice movement would do a lot better to take a "lesser of two evils" tack than their phony "it's just a clump of cells" nonsense.
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I read elsewhere (politico? kos?)
[Read the article: Clinton denies she said Obama can't win]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That her "that's a no" etc. answer meant that she simply wasn't going to discuss a private conversation -- it wasn't a denial of the allegation.
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@Smith
[Read the article: Clinton denies she said Obama can't win]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just pointing out that according to one account, her "no" was not in response to the question "did you say it?" It was her way of saying "I won't discuss this." A trivial issue, in any event, but Clintonian semantics have long fascinated me.
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You know, if this were soccer...
[Read the article: Why Hillary Clinton should be winning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]instead of football, the score would be *much* closer.
Boo fucking hoo.
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The country is ready...
[Read the article: Americans more ready for a black president than a woman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]for *this* black president, but not for *this* woman president. Why is that so hard to fathom?