Letters to the Editor
David L.
Published Letters: 159 Editor's Choice: 9
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From the Grave of Edward G. Robinson
[Read the article: Matthew Dowd's not-so-miraculous conversion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To Matthew Dowd:
From: The Grave of Edward G. Robinson
"Where's your God now, Moses?"
Myah, Shee
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2 Bits
[Read the article: I'm a small-town girl dreaming of the big-city lights]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree with everyone on option 2, but after you get over the whole collapse-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-in-Tupelo-MS bit, do realize that cost of living differences will make it harder for you to pick up and just move to the Big City up northeast. I know, NYC and Boston are great, but be prepared for a major dose of sticker-shock...
Also, it sounds like you want to have your cake and eat it too. You want to be a city girl, but you also want to start spitting out kids before you're "past your prime." Well, it's kinda hard to have it both ways, because most folks up north are even LESS inclined to marry quickly and start having kids...but the fact that your current fi-ance is a knuckle-draggin' brute that clearly doesn't want to have childrens doesn't bode well either, so you might as well pick up the pieces and move on...there are plenty of other fish in the see, and you're still very young.
Being a Southern gal in the northeast will make for some interesting conversation for people up there...but I wouldn't let that be a deterrent, especially in regards to dating. But as progressive as you claim to be, you'll almost feel out of place in comparision to the liberal masses you'll encounter up there (the dichotomy of a liberal Democrat with a conceal-n-care handgun license is rather amusing to most Yankees).
The suggestions below to going to Athens, Atlanta, etc. are all very good...if you REALLY want big city flair, come out here to Dallas or Houston...cost of living is very low compared to other big cities, you should be used to the heat out here coming from Da South, and things are a bit more racially diverse (and tolerant), especially with the large hispanic population here. Sure, TX is a red state at present, but in 10 years time, hispanics will be running the major metro areas any way (they own Dallas County now), and they are overwhelming Democratic when they vote.
I'll throw a bone to KC and St. Louis as well, and the Raleigh-Durham and Baltimore/DC areas up north would be a good transitional area for a Southern gal to move to. I think your best strategy is to move to a major city somewhere near the South, get used to how that kind of life is, then take the next step to a major metro area. It sounds like you can continue to go to college online, and since you have no other real baggage (other than yo' man), there's nothing stopping you.
Come on, take the plunge!
Just remember: "You're gonna make it after alllllllll...."
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Look, about Pulp Fiction...
[Read the article: "Grindhouse"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's a nice movie and all, and I like it better after repeated viewings...but come on, it's not Blade Runner or Clockwork Orange-caliber work, guys. Reservoir Dogs might come closer to perfection, and I'll put Kill Bill way up there on the list (sorry, zombie-guy, you're dead wrong on that account)...but PF was just a really good film, it wasn't really that ground breaking...not unless you hadn't seen a Tarantino film up to that point. But I had seen Reservoir Dogs and True Romance before PF, so that film didn't nearly impress me as much...maybe my expectations were too high, so if Stephanie Z. didn't like PF for that same reason, then I can sympathize a bit. I still say it's a good film...but it's not the X-Generation's version of Citizen Kane, for crying out loud.
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What can I say...
[Read the article: Iraq: Why the media failed]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To quote Chapelle's Negrodamus:
Audience Member: "Negrodamus, why is President Bush convinced there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?"
NEGRODAMUS: "Because he has the receipt."
Paul Mooney, in that skit, reminds us that everyone (from your lowest McDonalds cook to the most learned official govt.) forgets their history way too much...or they choose not to remember it, then when things go wrong, they suddenly say "I didn't think this would happen..." Wrong!
Well, we now know all that's a lie, but that line acknowledges the fact that we made Saddam what he became, and the fact that we acted surprised at all back in 1990 when he invaded Kuwait is a big, self-defeating lie in of itself. We knew all along what Saddam had or didn't have, so this whole bloody war has been one big lie built upon a heap of lies...and the media fell for it hook, line, and sinker. They CONTINUE to fall for it, depending on the network you watch, or news source you read.
People KNEW what would happen in Iraq long before we invaded, yet the Bush Admin. chose to ignore that info. Now look at the mess we are in. I've been saying all along "I told you so." But being right for a change doesn't fix the problem, nor does it make me feel better...
We just need to get the hell out of the Middle East, sooner rather than later...