Letters to the Editor
David L.
Published Letters: 188 Editor's Choice: 9
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BTW, love the "breeders" comments...
[Read the article: I let my friends stay with me and now they're evicting me!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I didn't have time to address what another post mentioned...about the "utter cluelessness" of parents. We are going through that right now (we are the childless ones), and while I understand that the child is suppose to be the center of the universe, please don't let them dictate your life. We are seeing varying degrees of this cluelessness going on amongst other breeders we know, and while it's perfectly understandable given the great responsibilities of raising children...please GOD, try to remember not everyone is in that same boat.
I'm lucky that my place of work is filled with non/ex-breeders...so this issue of picking up somebody else's slack on maternity leave has never come up. And while I think our maternity leave system is pretty lame, it's not really fair when employers pass that shit on to the rest of the folks NOT on maternity leave...I hear about it all the time now, and that just sucks for us non-breeders.
I can't remember the last time one couple has even returned our calls...it's as if the rest of the world doesn't really exist any more outside of that little cocoon of the nuclear family...
Anyway, this situation is WAY beyond that excuse...DTMFA, my friend.
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"Reitman -- whose last picture was the limp satire "Thank You for Smoking" --"
[Read the article: Toronto Film Festival]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are you f'ing nuts? How could you say that was a limp satire?
Although kudos on the Big Chill, though...looking back at that now, and on World According to Garp, and Forrest Gump, and...well, the list goes on...it's quite apparent that the Boomer Generation really thinks too highly of themselves. Too bad we have to take care of them now, and their outlandish debt...
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Tnx for the mammories...
[Read the article: Bill Maher: "Don't show me your tits!" ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can't agree more..."lactivists" are just trying to get attention for their precious me-me lifestyle...I frankly don't give a damn whether they do it public or not, but a little discretion would be nice.
I challenge one of these ladies to do that in a board meeting at their places of work...sure, if they get canned, they can try to sue and take it up with the Supreme Court, but everyone can take a guess on how that's going to turn out, what with Bush's court packing over the last few years...
Now, can we get on with something more fucking important, like bringing our troops home?
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I'll be the 1st Texan on this board to say it...
[Read the article: Texans turn against Bush's war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But having lived my entire 35+ years of existence in the DFW area, I can say without a doubt that the majority of it's residents are narrow-minded, un-thinking, Republican-minded brutes...this used to be a Yellow-Dog Democrat state...now it's a Yellow-Dog Republican state...despite what this article sez, most people here still support their President, as shown by their continued insistence on displaying their various W 2004 stickers. Even now that they are faded and pealing off the backs of their trucks or Yukons, these morons still support that heffer...
However, this will ALL change after the next census or 2, when Hispanics take over this state...and despite this little hiccup with Bush, Hispanics here are going to vote OVERWHELMINGLY Democratic in the future, especially given the furor over immigration (on this one aspect, Bush know more than his Rep. colleagues...too bad they didn't listen to him). I would have said this would happen after the next census, if only for the fact that the Republican-gerrymandered mapped is still very much weighted against Democratic districts...but in 10-20 years, this too shall change.
Need proof? All you have to do is look at the Dallas County election results from 2006, when damn near every elected city/county official that was Republican got voted out. Hell, a Hispanic LESBIAN won the Dallas Sherriff's dept. head race back 2004...what does that tell you about the growing Hispanic influence on politics in this state?
So...Tnx. for the story Salon...but until a new political map is implemented, all these little pleas from people who NOW suddenly want to end this war are falling on the deaf ears of their elected (Republican) officials...
Yeah, it sucks to be a Texan right now...As a friend of mine used to say on TX/OU weekend..."There's only 2 kinds of sons in this room...Sons of Texas, and sons-of-bitches"...I guess we're the SOBs now, huh?
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1 in 4 gays voted Republican?
[Read the article: The gay voter's guide to the GOP]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]WTF??!!!
If this statistic is true, then it should be no surprise why we have a boob as President...25% of homosexuals felt MORE comfortable with Bush in office than with Kerry?
Somewhere in the outer circles of hell, there's a place for these idiots, and the other 55% of Americans that were stupid enough to fall for the Bush propaganda in 2004...now everyone is falling all over themselves trying to say "Yeah, I was wrong for voting for that man"...
Here's to the folks like me that never fell for that clamp-trap!
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Scientology and LDS...
[Read the article: The Mormons are coming]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sorry, but the comparison between the 2 couldn't be more appropriate in this discussion...both require INCREDIBLE leaps of faith if you take the facts at face value...
Look...explain to me how immaculent conception, rising from the dead after being nailed to a cross, or being given a bunch of gold tablets from god can be any more implausible than us being descendents of an intergalatic slave-labor workforce? Both are EQUALLY outlandish, but why do we call one a "religion" and the other a "cult"? Because one has more supporters than the other, that's why.
If you want to persecute a religious group because they're assholes to everyone else that doesn't like them (which is my only real beef with some Scientologists), then that's a different issue altogether...but don't go attacking a religion because of it's belief system seems more implausible (to you, at least). You can't win that arguement, ALL religion taken at face value is UNBELIEVABLE to rationally thinking people.