Letters to the Editor
David L.
Published Letters: 196 Editor's Choice: 9
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To paraphrase...
[Read the article: I have guilty knowledge about my girlfriend]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is what I'm hearing from the LW:
"I can't believe what this blog said about my girlfriend, before she was my girlfriend, and now that I know this stuff, I feel like I betrayed her by not telling her ahead of time."
This is what I'm thinking about the LW's problem:
"Waaah, freakin' waaah!"
Okay, so you get to hook the girl of your dreams, but can't seem to enjoy that for it's own sake since you (supposedly) know all about this juicy info. ("info." = gossip, in this case) about her past love life from a blog...and we ALL know the Internet is the paragon of truth, isn't it?
Tell you what, LW, here's a creative writing assignment of mine I want you to read...no, read this right now, you'll LOVE it:
Think about the tastiest, most delicious cake you've ever had. Imagine eating that magnificent cake, bite after bite, savoring each morsel as it goes down. "But wait, something's not right," you say. How was that cake prepared in the back? Did the baker wash their hands properly? Was the kitchen clean enough? Perhaps it's not enough for you to have your cake and eat it too...No, you have to scrutinize the crumbs left over, to make sure what you ate was, yes indeed, a clean, wholesome cake! "Oh no, maybe there's something in that cake not right," you say. You just gotta know for sure! So you go puking it up only to find out, no, it was just a cake after all, though it's hard to tell any more amongst the...well, you know....Now you've made a mess and lost whatever memory you had of eating that delicious cake. OOHHHH THE HORROR!!!
Okay, that was a bit gross...the point, LW, is that there's something in your wiring making you harpoon this relationship, and you need to figure it out or fix it before you spend the rest of your life nashing your teeth over your growing number of failed relationships. People tend to be their own worst critics...and in turn, their own worst enemies. Don't let that ruin a perfectly good relationship.
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Illegal immigration = guns/gays/abortion
[Read the article: Placating the GOP base or protecting the workplace?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is just another wedge issue that hardliners in the GOP have artfully used to stir-up their base...and you concerned liberals and non-GOP moderates are just falling all over yourselves to get on board with them about this one thing, when in fact the answers to this so-called immigration problem are much easier to handle, and they don't require the draconian measures that nativists are insisting we need to pass through Congress.
Frankly, I don't really see the problem here anyway. You folks that keep talking about how this is depriving jobs from citizens in this country must not have had some connstruction contractors come work for you of late, at least not here in the South. A lot of these guys I know (in Texas at least) that used to do construction jobs now just run the business operations themselves, learn a little Spanish, then source out the jobs to some Mexicans waiting for them at the "appropriate" street corners on the east side of town. Do any of you really think there's a future for someone hammering a house frame together, or tightening bolts to an automobile chassis? Of course you don't, and most of you wouldn't take those jobs if they were available anyway. I know I'll get a lot of "Yeah, well, if they paid enough, I would..." But don't bullshit me about that, because we both know that's a lie...some folks here probably haven't had a manual labor job since high school...hell, some may never have.
Another thing, most of you here don't understand the shear economics involved, and how we just can't reverse that trend without seeing massive inflation being carried down to each and every consumer. You yank the plug on these jobs and you are NOT going to see them filled with American workers...they'll basically just go unfilled, meaning lower productivity, meaning higher prices for EVERYTHING you buy. See how long you can last paying $10-$15 dollars for a 24oz container of fresh strawberries, or $8 dollar loaves of bread...then tell me if cheap labor isn't such a bad thing.
I'm a liberal-minded Demo like most folks here, but you all have got to think about this immigration issue out a little more before you knee-jerk your Senator or Congressman/ Congresswoman about how we should handle the immigration problem.
Besides, this article is suppose to be more about the lives that get trampled by immigration enforcement (and the lack of punishment for those businesses). Like I've said before, we have the solution to this so-called problem right in front of us, but until everyone figures that out and holds BOTH parties to the fire on that issue, these businesses will just go doing what they always do.
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Nutty behavior...
[Read the article: My roommate bounces my cats the wrong way]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This whole scenario is just nutty to begin with. Sure, the LW has OCD, a clinically diagnosed mental ailment...but their roommate is a tad nutty too (at least the way I'm reading this letter). Someone does something that makes the other roommate uncomfortable, roommate tells them to stop it, then they just blow it off and keep doing it...huh?
I'm not one to coddle other people's problems too much, but if this roommate continued to do something with my pets that I specifically asked them not to, I'd kick to the curb...and mental issues have nothing to do with it, that's no excuse for the roommate to ignore your wishes.