Letters to the Editor
aeschylus
Published Letters: 217 Editor's Choice: 4
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34 years old with kids?
[Read the article: If the first date isn't great, why go out with him again? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]LW seems to think she's bargaining from a position of strength. Listen, sweetie -- you come with an instant family, so you better be prepared at least to settle for a man with kids of his own. Is that what you want? Package deals make lots of single men skittish.
Chemistry's important, but more important is the fact that in a few years you'll be playing the back nine. How many chances at happiness do you think are waiting for you? If couplehood is the only thing that will make you happy, then you'll either need to lower your standards or else endure years of lackluster dates and loneliness hoping you meet Mr. Right, who might not be out there.
LW strikes me like a lot of divorcees (my sister's one) who want to take a mulligan for their first horrible man choice and meet Mr. Perfect *right now* so as to commence living happily ever after. Good luck with that.
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I used to be a fan, but...
[Read the article: Heigl didn't love "Knocked Up"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Then there was were histrionic role in the Isaiah Washington thing, now she's complaining about this movie...I just saw in a magazine somewhere that she feels pressured to be a size zero, and why can't she just be curvy? Kathy, sweety, when men talk about fat chicks, they're not talking about you.
She seems like a person who *needs* to feel outraged at something or other. Feh.
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LW should mind his own business.
[Read the article: A friend is involved in Scientology. Should I interfere?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Seriously. The only reason Scientology looks kooky compared to Christianity, etc. (hell, even Mormonism) is that it hasn't had the benefit of time. There was a time when the Romans thought Jesus was some hippie walking around talking shit 'cause he couldn't hold a job.
If you can't look past the Scientology, find another friend.
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Existential artist? Ugh.
[Read the article: I'm an existential artist. People just don't get me!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dressing/grooming to please others is a fool's game. Obviously there are parameters depending on your work situation, etc., but be yourself. On the other hand, little miss strikes me as the type who thinks "non-conformist" is the same thing as "deep." The world may not get her, but I'm not sensing a real effort to be understood (or even understand others).
Still, she's in her mid-twenties, so her attitude is understandable. Five to ten years ought to cure it. If there's no change at that time, then her "existential" posing isn't a product of her youth -- it's a product of her being an asshole.
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Bravo, John Anderson!
[Read the article: I'm an existential artist. People just don't get me!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well said. Any further comment would be like painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa.
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Jesus, drichmond...
[Read the article: Romney and Huckabee's religious intolerance ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hitler advocated Christianity, thus Christianity is bad? Y'know, he built the Autobahn. Should we scrap America's highway and freeway systems? He was also a vegetarian -- maybe we should get rid of all of them, too.
Schmuck.
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I gotta invoke Godwin's Law on this...
[Read the article: "Missing" evidence is familiar Bush pattern]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Somehow this became a discussion about Nazis. Time to move on, folks.
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No, if Clooney had said it...
[Read the article: Roundup: Do these punching bags encourage female violence?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]he would likewise be an asshole. Here's a novel thought: if you're making a handsome living as an actor and you come across a project that you find objectionable...pass! What's admirable about a big Hollywood star remembering his or her principles after the check is cashed?
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I don't get Catholics who say...
[Read the article: The accidental heretic]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I'm a Catholic, but...I like these authors the Church condemns; I'm pro-choice; I practice birth control; I'm not against premarital sex; I don't observe Lent; I don't go to church. I believe in the Sacred Feminine"
There's no such thing as an agnostic Catholic. Catholocism is strictly a religion, not also a culture (like, say, Judaism). If you're not all in, you're not Catholic! How anybody can remain a Catholic after all the abuse scandals is beyond me. The Church *is* the religion. Otherwise, you're nothing more than Protestants.
Donna, you're not a Catholic.
P.S. I'm an atheist. The rest of you Christians are all nuts, too. And Muslims, into the bargain. I'm okay with the Jews on a case by case basis.
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@AJCalhoun
[Read the article: The accidental heretic]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The reason I said I'm okay with the Jews is mainly due to the fact that, historically, they haven't been that big on inquisitions and jihads and coming to my house uninvited to give me pamphlets about God. I said "on a case by case basis" because some of the Jews I've met were, alas, assholes. But the same could be said for (say) pharmacists. You have to take the good with the bad, I guess.
Jewishness does often have an ethnic component that I am not qualified to define, but it's there. I have no idea what Martin Landau's religious leanings are, for instance, but I'll hazard a guess that most who've seen him would say he's a Jew. So "Jew" isn't necessarily a religious tag. "Atheist Jew," therefore, isn't contradictory.
And I don't want to get into a thing, but if you're Catholic, then no: you're *not* allowed to think (that's true of all Abrahamic religions, no?). The tenets of the religion were decided by God and the Church hierarchy. That's what Catholics signed up for. So the cherry picking makes no sense to me. It's like taking the Ten Commandments and retitling them the Ten Suggestions; and then pruning the list down to six. Either get with the program or pick another religion. I actually had a Catholic coworker who still adhered to the no-meat-on-Friday thing, but was totally unembarrassed about living in sin with another man and having his bastard child. WTF?
As for what I find attractive about Jews in general? I dunno. They're good with numbers. They've produced a lot of comic luminaries. That Einstein guy was pretty smart. And potato pancakes. I like potato pancakes. Happy Hannukah!
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Good lord.
[Read the article: What would we see if we were behind your eyeballs, Cary?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cary, you obviously aspire to be something other than an advice columnist. Why don't you just go do that other thing and hand the reins to someone who understands the job description? Either that, or do the art projects on your own damn time.
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@Davis
[Read the article: My ex-con neighbor owes me money]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Do you intern for Cary? Fucking up an ex-con's auto is about the worst response I can imagine.