Letters to the Editor
MomoCat
Published Letters: 34 Editor's Choice: 14
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Berkeley Republicans
[Read the article: Young voters are stoked]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]tangerine, Berkeley's non-student voting populace tends to be very progressive, just like in the 60s.
The student body reflects the fact that UCB is simply a place to get a good education, regardless of your political persuasion. As far as a lot of the students are concerned, the sixties are just an era back when their parents were little kids. The Berkeley sixties era as a political point of reference was over at UCB back when I was there in the early 80s and my fellow classmates were rooting for Reagan. I couldn't believe it then, but I sure can now.
It's time for a new vision and looking forward.
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Have an SSRI inhibitor...
[Read the article: "Definitely, Maybe"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, I can agree with some of the comments leveled at this review, but I think Thadeus just got up on the wrong side of the bed - it's a movie review with a few missteps, nothing that merits a full breakfast serving of vitriol.
But I'm with Thadeus on the Christopher Hitchens remark - that was exactly my thought. Why would lovely Rachel Weisz have the latter-day Hitchens as her 'mentor'?
And on that topic, what happened to that guy? He was so brilliant back in the day.
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Giving feminists a bad name
[Read the article: Work sucks? Blame her!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This little article ditty manages to sock it to women on two counts. First, it repeats the insipid nonsense in the original article (i.e. feminists blew it when they entered the workforce). Second, through the lazy logic of the Broadsheet 'rebuttal', accepts the parameters of the original as worthy of engagement.
BernieO summed it up succinctly with:
"Blame Republicans
The prioritization of profits as the ultimate good coupled with the disempowering of unions has allowed corporate American to demand more and more from workers while paying less and less to all but upper management. This is the legacy of the sainted Ronald Reagan."
But I would disagree with pointing the finger solely at Republicans. Blame it also on a society that bought into the corporate model of success, that deifies corporate scions as the ultimate in achievement, that refuses nationalized health care, higher taxes and investment in infrastructure while supporting entire lifestyles and communities on credit.
You wanted that McMansion, huge flat screen, newish car and private schools for your kids while not pissing off the powers that be? Well, you got it. And we are all to blame - Reps, Dems, ladies and gentlemen.
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And what about the gardener?
[Read the article: The strange case of midnight renegade oleander gentrification camouflage]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's not the lady across the street who is actually doing the trespassing, it's the guy she hired to do her trespassing for her.
Does he even know he is doing unauthorized planting of toxic plants...?
Maybe he is operating under the assumption the elderly house owner has given her permission, and would be very unhappy to find out otherwise.
If revenge is what the LW wants, a little messing with the employer/hired hand relationship might be the soothing balm she seeks.
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jonathanseer - Inventing modular female genitalia:
[Read the article: "Virginity is more important to me than life"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Already on the market.
You can buy them on Amazon.
No, I am not kidding.
Now, the question is, does a man still get to count himself chaste if he has used one?