Letters to the Editor
David L.
Published Letters: 193 Editor's Choice: 9
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This is a bit late...
[Read the article: My girlfriend tried cocaine at a party! She was drunk! Oh my God!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But look in the Webster dictionary under the words "snobbish" or "prick" and you'll find this man's picture right next to the word.
The LW clearly has a self-esteem issue with himself, to not respect someone because of their past...LW, would you have the same opinion of this person if they had done 3 years in the slammer for forgery or something? Better still, what if she had been looser than you in the past and had participated in a menage a' trois (or "mangie-troy," as we call them in these her parts)? Or what is she said she had an abortion when in high school? What if she said something like "I used to beat nerds like you up in elementary school on a daily basis."? Or what if she said she didn't like dating judgemental dickheads, who scrutinize other people's pasts because their own past was kinda lame?
While it's apparent the LW has strong moral opinions of others, he's certainly quite lacking in the Humility and Forgiveness Dept...he should be able to look past a person's so-called indiscretions and accept this woman for who she is. But if he isn't capable of that, then he needs to go to the physics lab and find some homely-looking lab tech girl to date.
I disagree with those folks that say you should dump the girlfriend...on the contrary, the girlfriend should dump YOU for being a raging cock and a tight-ass...some catch you are...
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Interesting that...
[Read the article: Hurricane recovery, Republican-style]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you look at other articles about Larry Craig, there are 20 times as many posts elsewhere on this website than on this article here...not sure if that's a sign of indifference, or just plain acceptance by Salon readers of how impossible this situation is to fix with a White House hell-bent on some farcical chase after terrorists...you be the judge of that. We have more lives affected by this catastrophy than anything some terrorist could possibly do to this country, and yet we spend 100's of billions of dollars basically wrecking other countries in the Middle East...and for what, "national security"?
Despite Brickbat's hard to understand prose, I will agree that this whole mess is just plain sad, and it's fuelled by greedy Republican's that are pro-business to a fault. The article even takes a very Old Man Potter-esque swipe at the mayor of Biloxi. I can just imagine seeing George Bailey running down the main street in "Pottersville" in his alternate universe dream-sequence...
All I have to say is woe is the day when one of these highway bridges collapses out there...if what happened in Minn. had happened down there in a similar gulf city, can you imagine how furious people in this country would be at the U.S. govt? Unfortunately, without some kind of NEW major disaster, this kind of neglect about our national infrastruction falls off the radar screen.
To the post about NC and Hurricane Floyd...to use your phrase, the takeaway from your post is that people have to rebuild on their own and can't rely on the govt. to do so...look at NC, they did it after Hurricane Floyd, right? Sure...nevermind the fact that Katrina caused $81 billion dollars in damage to the Gulf coast, compared to a mere $5.7 billion dollars from Floyd (that's inflation-adjusted dollars, I might add)...and Floyd happened at a time when FEMA was at it's peak performance under Clinton's admin...not the FEMA we had under Bush when Katrina hit. So if you want to back up your arguement, make a better comparison next time...Katrina does NOT = Floyd...
If you want to make a difference rather than bitching about it here, go volunteer with one of the many reconstruction groups going to Gulf area...they could use a little bit of your time and effort, because money given to reconstruction obviously isn't getting to the right people down there.
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I can just see it now...
[Read the article: Lately I've been kissing women I'm not married to]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Sorry honey, I went out drinking with a couple of business associates, then I tripped and fell and WHOOPS! my dick entered her vagina...sorry about that!"
You deliberately put yourself in these situations, then plead your case on this forum by saying "Why is this happening?"
I'll tell you why...because you're a manwhore...no, in fact, you're man "whor-ah" (which is a special phrase I use for the most eggregious, attention-needing, marriage-wrecking, co-dependent sluts of this Earth, male and/or female). Sure, you COULD stop putting yourself in those situations, and sure, you COULD possibly stop drinking while out of town on business...and you COULD stop hanging out with other co-dependent home-wreckers...but what you COULD have done vs. what you DID do are 2 different things.
And you let this happen twice now? Please...you're laying it on real thick with this why's-it-happening-to-me bullshit...
Go ahead, bring on the flamers...all you relativists out there keep trying to make the guy feel better about himself, and you're falling right into his needy little hands. I'm not saying every marriage has to be perfect, because they aren't...but fucking be honest with yourself about what you're doing outside of it...you're insulting our collective intelligence here.
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Now I know why animals eat their young...
[Read the article: I let my friends stay with me and now they're evicting me!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Because something in the LW's brain allowed him/her to equate mooching with "helping people out"...and something in the couples twisted minds allowed them to think that what they were doing was in their child's best interest...who spawned these people?
If it were me, and only my name was on the lease, I'd be a cold-hearted bastard and turn them out on the street...let them run home to one of their parents to help raise the child, it's not the LW's job...even if he/she has a good heart. And to have the nerve to ask for that apartment...
I like the idea of eating cabbage and beans, though...it would require the LW to become a mannerless oaf, but it sure would be fun to watch!!!