Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 219 Editor's Choice: 4
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People don't seem to realize...
[Read the article: I don't want to go to my college friend's wedding]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that their wedding is a really big deal for *them*. For many of the guests a wedding means airfare, hotel expense, a gift, and on and on it goes.
To brides and grooms around the world: you do no one any favors by asking them to drop everything to attend your wedding. It is they who do you a favor by showing up. Sending a gift with a lovely note is more than enough.
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DeSoto figures are off.
[Read the article: Is everything we know about American history wrong?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Multiply by ten if they approximate Antietam.
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So you got married at 19-20?
[Read the article: I hit my sister in the head with my purse when I drink]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There's a huge chunk of your problem right there. Does marrying young ever end well these days? Sure, our parents did it. But I think those days are long gone. Sadly, you can't unring a bell. Get therapy, definitely. I see a divorce on the horizon, as well.
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Women just don't get it.
[Read the article: My boyfriend has an abysmal environmental conscience]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Men are NOT fixer-uppers. You drive them off the lot as-is. The problem with many heterosexual relationships is that men think they deserve women better than themselves, and women are willing to settle for less than they should.
Then one day these same women wake up, look at the turd lying next to them in bed, and start wondering how they ended up there. Then all hell breaks loose.
Ladies: if a men doesn't measure up, or come REALLY close: move on.
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Child abuse? Calm down.
[Read the article: The atheist and the creationist: Can't they just get along?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm an atheist, and I find creationists to be batshit crazy. But child abusers? Render unto me a fucking break. Ever hear of _Lies My Teacher Told Me_? If it's not your school, and doesn't affect your kids, then mind your own business.
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Lupercalia? Nice!
[Read the article: Skirt-chasing as sport]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree with you. If the women don't mind being chased, then what's the big deal? Would it kill Tracy to occasionally write: "Nothing bothered me today"?
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If Agar had been a man...
[Read the article: What's so bad about "sweetie," anyway?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sen. Obama would have called her "buddy," or "chief," or "sport" or whatever. Christ alfuckingmighty. You must have one bad-ass microscope to focus on such subatomic minutiae.
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Hey, Cary:
[Read the article: I want to be a veterinarian but not at the expense of animals ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When you (presumably) have your choice of letters to answer, and you choose one that evokes the response "Hell if I know," you might want to think about hanging it up.
To the vet student: talk to your teachers and see if there's any leeway. If not, you need to come to terms that life is about taking the good with the bad. If you become a vet, could you work toward ending the practices you find so repulsive as a student?
If you really want it, get a prescription for Adavan, suck it up and become a vet.
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Kennedy eschewed Cold War fearmongering?
[Read the article: Obama/Kennedy vs. McCain/Goldwater]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What about all that (non-existent) missile-gap talk? And what imminent threat prompted him to send "advisors" to Vietnam?
I'm not anti-JFK, but let's cool it with the hagiography, 'kay?
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So that's your problem? A little bounce-bounce-clang?
[Read the article: He dribbles! He shoots! He drives me insane!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What's next? "Cary, my wife's too pretty! I make too much money! Help me, please!"
Good night nurse.
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Tell them to fuck off.
[Read the article: My brother abused me -- now our parents want us all together again!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fuck them.
Fuck them.
Fuck them.
Your parents are way out of line. You ought to cut them out of your life, too.
I'm happy you're processing what happened, but you might want to rethink forgiving your brother. Some people deserve our anger.
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Bravo!
[Read the article: I'm a mom who needs more solitude]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Another person becomes self-aware *after* having a kid.
Well done.
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I'm with Claudia on this one.
[Read the article: Should I confront my father about his affair?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can't believe anyone would advise otherwise. Wouldn't you want to know, if you were in the mom's shoes? Do unto others, people. Hell, I'm an atheist and even I know that rule.
LW, go to your dad first. Tell him you know. Give him a chance to fess up. If he won't, then tell your mom.
P.S. Was Cary suggesting that the LW do nothing? At great, meandering, I'm-an-aauuuuthoorrrr length? Truly appalling.
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What happened to Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins?
[Read the article: CNN/MSNBC reporter: Corporate executives forced pro-Bush, pro-war narrative]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What was Ashleigh Banfield talking about?
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Blacklisted?
[Read the article: CNN/MSNBC reporter: Corporate executives forced pro-Bush, pro-war narrative]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Their recent filmographies on IMBD look pretty robust. I call bullshit.
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Easier said than done, but...
[Read the article: I got the writing fellowship -- so now I'm terrified!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...you need to think of this fellowship money as a salary that is to be earned rather than a gift that has been received. If you want to be a writer, then that's your job. Treat it like one. Write every day. Character notes, all the minutiae. If you write a paragraph describing a character's wristwatch (or whatever), you'll probably never use it. But then again, such exercises can lead to creative revelations and pages of brilliance.
Congratulations on the fellowship. Meanwhile, I show up here trying for red stars like a loser.
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Are you *shitting* me?
[Read the article: What should we do with our $3 million?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"We're millionaires! Help!"
Jumping Jehosephats.
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I'm not against sex ed, but...
[Read the article: Make it stop: Abstinence-only education]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]why do kids need a *class* to know that unprotected sex leaves one vulnerable to STDs and unwanted pregnancy? Or that unconventional sex can also lead to STDs? Or that protection sometimes lets in STDs and babies, anyway?
I learned this through osmosis and PSA's in the 80's. What's the problem nowadays?
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Waah! He used the phrase "near dictatorial"!
[Read the article: Newest McCain official: President has "near dictatorial powers"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How spooooky. It's also true. Just as it was true when Clinton bombed Bosnia and blew up that pharmaceutical plant in Sudan. The republic survived, and will continue to.
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Look on the bright side...
[Read the article: I'm an exhausted caregiver on the point of collapse]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At least you don't have a $3 million windfall to worry about!
Totally inappropriate, and I apologize, but the juxtaposition of this letter with yesterday's just drives me nuts.
Good luck to you, LW. Follow the good advice that others have offered. Try to find some "me" time whenever you can. That's key to your well-being and, ultimately, your family's. God bless.
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What if...
[Read the article: Who will Obama choose as veep? Nope, you're wrong]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama chose his wife? Wouldn't that be something? Then McCain would be forced to choose his wife ("So your wife isn't good enough?").
No matter which side won, I bet the Clintons would be really steamed.
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"Alone" and "lonely" are not synonyms
[Read the article: Why can't I find a relationship that will last?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You say you're not obsessing, but you obviously are. Become comfortable with the possibility that you might never find the one. Because you might not. Don't look to other people to complete you. Only you can do that. Significant others are tasty, tasty gravy -- but gravy, nonetheless.
P.S. While perfect doesn't exist, don't settle for "projects." Men are not run-down houses. Why is it that so many men think they deserve more than they do, and so many women seem willing to settle for less? God bless you ladies -- your my bread and butter. But WTF?
P.P.S. Good news, ladies: I'm single!