Letters to the Editor
David L.
Published Letters: 224 Editor's Choice: 9
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To quote Don Corleone...
[Read the article: My wife keeps cheating but we have two kids. Should I leave her?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...Look at the mess they made of my boy..."
That's rather fitting, given the response from the first page about taking a baseball bat to the car of the LW's lover and whatnot...these comments about the lack of anger from the letter response audience obviously were written without looking at all of the posts here, because there are some VISCERAL replies from folks that want to inflict some pain on someone...and who can blame them...
But that's beside the point here. This is just another simple story of boy meets girl, boy and girl get married and have a seemingly perfect life, but girl has some co-dependency and/or father-figure issues, girl f's a business colleague, girl seriously lies about it, boy gets pissed and f's 2 other folks to even the score (I guess !?), boy and girl seem to patch it up, then girl starts drifting down that road again, boy gets pissed again...okay, maybe it's not the typical boy meets girl story...but I wrote that above to prove a point.
The LW needs to hang this one up and call a lawyer. There's no fixing the wife's lecherous needs (otherwise she would have earnestly dumped the other guy forever and shown SOME kind of remorse). The LW could go on a rampage and scare this other homewrecker off...but that assumes that the LW's wife is a helpless lemming, a faire lady that has been beguiled by some man-whore's wiley ways...no, I'm afraid sir you are married to that WHOAH. She asked for this affair, and fell back into more than once, whether she'll admit it or not.
And face it dude, you obviously don't respect her any more than she respects you...maybe even less, since you just HAD to slip your dick into other folks to get back at her. True, she broke the vow first, but your jealously and inability to forgive basically pushed this marriage further into the can.
Seriously, there's no hope. Call a lawyer, figure out what you can do to minimize the damage for yourself at least. Your therapist should be sending YOU a set of steak knives for Xmas, because your kids will be seeing therapists for years thanks to you and your wife's shenanigans.
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Less people...
[Read the article: America's water war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Equals less fighting for resources...
Face it, just about all of our wars have been fought over resources...sure, they may dress it up in fancy language about "leibesrahm" (sic, German for "Breathing room" from WW2), or about lofty notions about independence (think U.S. Revolution, or the "liberation" of Kuwait, one of the most oil-rich countries in the world), or it may go under the phrase of "genocide" (aka Rwanda) etc. But when it comes right down to it, it's all about who owns the resources...it's a natural by-product of our evolutionary instincts to survive.
But we can ALL take an active part and reduce this kind of unnecessary turmoil...by NOT having more children.
Yep, sounds radical, I know...I'm not talking about killing off civilizations or anything, I'm talking about making a conscience choice to not bring children into this world. Doesn't mean you don't have to have children, adoption is always an option if you just gotta have kids around...but the fact is, there are only so many resources left on this planet. The fewer of us there are to use that up, the less of a problem it's going to be.
Besides, don't worry about the "environment"...Mother Nature is a tough broad (as George Carlin used to say), she doesn't need us to take care of it...we only need to take care of it to preserve ourselves, Mother Nature can live without us.
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From a guy that lives in a state where football is king...
[Read the article: What's worse than watching your teams lose? Watching them win]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I say to you Bahstonians...wwaaaaa!!! WAAAAA!!! Our football team is the greatest ever WAAAAA!!!
Actually, I disagree with the whole premise about this story...I don't believe for a second that Bahstonians aren't loving this winning stretch. To say otherwise is just hogwash. Living in Big D, and having been alive for most of their franchise history, there's nothing better than seeing the Cowboys win the Superbowl. I can't possibly see how that could be any different, even for angst-ridden Pats fans.
I will say one thing, though...this tone of indignation about the Pats going from a Cinderalla team to the villians of the NFL is bullshit...you guys have been to the Superbowl, what, 5 times now, and won the last 3 of 4 (and probably another one for this season)? And you feel the title of NFL villians isn't justified? Bite my ass, okay? The Cowboys have been playing that role for years now, so grow up and deal with it...enjoy it while you can too, because winning 3-4 Superbowls in 5 years is an amazing feat, one that many teams never have enjoyed.
Also, with all of the Bill Belichick shenanigans (illegal taping of defensive, misleading injury reports on Brady during Week 9, etc.), are you surprised that some folks just don't like the Pats right now? The Cowboys are no saints either (i.e. anything T.O. sez, signing of Sullivan), but please spare us of the Cinderella fairytale story crap...nobody is buying it. Pats are a dynasty now, there's no denying it. Take it from someone that knows.
And if there's one thing we can all agree on...is that we BOTH hate the Yankees...