Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 10 Editor's Choice: 2
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Camille Paglia article
[Read the article: The Fix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I guess it is my mistake, but I clicked on the link for the Camille Paglia article and was surprised to see ads with naked men on them. I am no prude, but I was attempting to read this article while on lunch at work, and well, I think this might be a little too risque for state government.
While you do mention that the interview appears on a gay porn site, it did not register with me that the page itself would be littered with porn. Perhaps next time a NSFW (Not Suitable For Work) designation could be placed on the link.
Thanks, Sal
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One weird thing..
[Read the article: My friend went to bed and her husband tried to seduce me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just have thing to say because I think most points have been hit upon repeatedly. Please forgive me if this point has also been made, but I only read about 6 pages in.
I find it a little hard to believe that this woman has not listened to the voice mail message. Does that not seem odd to everyone? I would have listened to it immediately, wondering what this worthless pr1ck had to say for himself. I also would think that there is probably another friend in her life that she would have shared this story with, perhaps a friend they do not have in common, and any of my friends, would of wanted to know what the voice mail said or actually listen to it.
I really find that odd, and if the LW can not even muster the courage to listen to the voice mail, she is not going to tell the friend and others may be right in that she needs to be a little more assertive in her life. (that last statement is not blaming her, just speculating on the kind of person who is so traumatized by someone hitting on them, that they can not bear to listen to the person's voice again, even through voice mail)
Anyhow, that is all I have to say.
Sal
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not about Duke, but rather the nostalgia for Salon's early days
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I always enjoy reading your columns, and happened to receive an email just a few minutes ago that I thought might feed a bit of the nostalgia you seem to have from the early days of Salon. The email contained a link to the following site: http://www.archive.org/index.php which maintains an archive of old websites. You can look up the early days of Yahoo, Netscape, and even Salon or salon1999. Really just for shits and giggles as they say, but thought you might like it.
I would have sent this directly to King, but do not see the columnists' emails listed anymore.
Sal
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Final conclusion is correct
[Read the article: Are clean shirts and energy efficiency only for the rich?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your final conclusion is correct. As time passes, these higher efficiency washing machines will improve their performance. This is exactly the same thing that happened with the low flush toilets. If you are one of the unlucky homeowners that replaced their toilets when the water saving restrictions first hit the toilet market, you have an early technology low flush toilet. These may need a second (or third) flush to properly dispose of their contents. As a reader previously suggested, this is often less efficient than the toilet that was replaced. However there is light at the end of the tunnel. I have just completed a renovation of 2 bathrooms. Both received middle of the line toilets, and both flush like champs. My understanding in doing research in this area is that after a couple years of poor performing toilets, companies improved their technology and now most low flush toilets on the market do a proper job of disposing of yours.
As for washers, I have a middle of the line $600 front loading washing machine from Sears that is Energy Star, and it was not only rated highly by Consumer Reports a couple years back, but it cleans like a champ.
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women in men's bathrooms is not acceptable.
[Read the article: Women need johns]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This may have been covered already, however I do not have time to read all of the responses, but it is absolutely unacceptable for women to use the men's restroom facilities. Period, end of discussion. This has nothing to do with the women's comfort in doing so and nothing to do with the lack of adequate facilities for women either, nor does it have to do with me being a prude, cause I could really care if you hear or see me in the bathroom. This has to do with men's right to an expectation of privacy in the restroom.
I agree that most women's facilities at large events are inadequately designed, and this should be remedied. This a no brainer, and I doubt most people would argue with that. Women need to make their voices heard, and I think on some level they are doing so. Recently I was at a Detroit Lions football game, and all of the men's restrooms had lines, while there was no line to speak of at the women's restroom. This stadium was recently built within the last five years, so perhaps we are seeing a trend when building new facilities.
My problem, is that some women very cavalierly think it is no big deal for them to enter a men's bathroom because they don't want to wait. I'm sorry, if we were to enter a women's bathroom because we did not want to wait for a line or for some other petty reason, women would be outraged, and most likely we would be arrested.
Yes the problem needs to be rectified, but go about it the right way. Don't violate men's privacy to make a point, target those at fault or your code writers/enforcers or legislators and get things done in an apprpriate manner.
Sal