Letters to the Editor
c4lynn
Published Letters: 5 Editor's Choice: 2
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Arizona Past & Present
[Read the article: Destination: Arizona]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As another letter writer mentioned here it is a shock here when someone is actually from this state. Not only am I from here my descendents homesteaded here, so I'm around a 3rd generation Arizona native. People moving here have a barely disguised contempt for this land and the people in it. I live in the Phoenix area and all I hear is how much everyone hates it and it's not like back home (i.e Chicago, New York, whatever). The article and the books mentioned are correct about how developers and others try to create a slice of the mid-west in the middle of the desert which not only wastes water but in the long term probably cannot be maintained. And there is also no need for it. In the southern part of the state it is what is considered lush desert, plenty of plants and grass grow here naturally but it is usually ripped up and replaced with non native plants. I apologize for rambling but it is a great concern to me because I do love it here and I see so many people moving in, abusing it, resenting it, and then after they’ve trashed it returning in disgust to their home states. The whole Phoenix area is treated like everything is disposable. Oh well, maybe I’ll move further out into the desert and become a grumpy miser. It does run in the family.
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Fakery Sucks
[Read the article: Live girl-on-girl action!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who can deny that some men like looking at two girls together and who would begrudge them of that pleasure? Not me. The behavior described in this article is sad for one reason above all others: It's fake. It's all a contrived show, there is no passion or lust behind it. There has to be something more to make a display erotic beyond the simple mechanics of it. And it's taking something very sexy and hot; i.e. two women in the throws of desire, getting ready to get down and dirty, and turns it into a cheap play. It destroys the sanctity of hot lesbian sex!
Guys and girls alike in these situations need a good kick in the butt. But what can I expect from a generation who gained their sexual knowledge from porn and not real life? Phony, trumped up quasi-lesbian play like this I suppose. It's a sad day indeed. Maybe some real lesbians need to show them how it's done. Oh and gentlemen, there will be no three ways, but you're welcome to watch.
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Ahhhhh!!!
[Read the article: Show us your... balls?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Those do sounds like screams of horror at the end! What were they thinking? I mean everyone, producers, flashers, et al.
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Just one point...
[Read the article: The Gen Xers are driving me crazy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I only have one thing to point out in this discussion: Gen Xer's were raised by Boomers. Is this a case of reaping what you sow?
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Tempe
[Read the article: Taking it to the streets]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I used to work in downtown Tempe (I currently live a few miles away now but still in the Valley) and the street kids are absolutely 100% dangerous and no one wants to confront it.
I was in my very early twenties when I observed the rise of these groups in Tempe so I was the same age as these kids; it wasn't some generational inability to relate. I hung out in the coffee bars and watched it first hand with sick fascination; the beatings, the retaliations, the meth use. One incident I remember clearly was where a group of them took the belongings of a young homeless family and set them ablaze in the city park. When the police responded they attempted an ambush, came out of the bushes with weapons right out of Mad Max. After it was all said and done the cops were accused of provoking the incident and even of starting the fire. It was portrayed as ‘Local Cops Harass Homeless’. No one sees these gangs for what they are, gangs. During this time period it was the late 90’s and the kids had this whole fantasy scenario going about how Y2K was going to hit, there would be a battle and only they would know how to survive. Real Helter Skelter Manson like stuff and they were stockpiling weapons. I overheard all this stuff on the coffee shop patio where they congregated on Mill. One of them told me this point blank and how I would not survive the coming inferno. I told him he couldn’t survive a day without getting food or money from other people. If there was an apocalypse there would be no one to panhandle from and he’d starve. If anything, I would be eating him for breakfast, not the other way around. This was a shocking to him, I could almost see his fantasy world implode in his eyes. There’s a side to this fantasy world they are constantly creating that is almost cult like. My naïve roommate of the time became pals with some of them and invited one back to our apartment to use our shower. I went ballistic and tossed him out. Lo and behold a few days later someone tried to break in, and from the looks of it it was someone whom had been inside and knew where the door locks where because the glass next to it was knocked out in only those locations.
They use the trappings of the hippy generation to appear harmless and bohemian but they are not. Now that I think about it what went on at the old Spawn ranch with the Manson family very much mirrors these groups except the scary thing is the scale they function on is so much bigger and they slip around undetected.