Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 60 Editor's Choice: 2
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Were you listening?
[Read the article: My boyfriend dumped me and I'm desolate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your problems predated this relationship. You brought these problems into the relationship. He told you these problems were now his problems. He tried to address these problems. Probably in a myriad of forms. How many times did you shrug off a grimace, a turned back, signs of frustration? Did you kick out at him in bed? How many times did you push away or turn away? How long did you expect him to accept this? He didn't have anyone else. He just did not wish to be saddled any longer with you and your problems. You are suffering from what can only be called terminal infantilism. And the advice you have received will only reinforce this social disease.
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No Letter I Could Write Would Be Worthy
[Read the article: Stranger than science fiction]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow. So much to consider and so little mental energy. A bit too much on the Pop psychology with the parental disapproval, attitudes, competition, etc. But it is rewarding to see such detailed, rich, compassionate, complex accounting of one case of human genius on the ashpile of unforgiving nature.
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Crush This Spectre of Democracy!
[Read the article: Sore losers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We must all band together to crush this spectre of democracy before it spreads. Money! Give me more money! Screw the Constitution! Give me money! Front door, back door, honest money, hidden money! Just give me money!
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Something is Mightily Askew
[Read the article: "I didn't like sex at all"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is it just me, or does something appear mightily askew in the reviewer's judgment regarding this individual? Undoubtedly, she would have been well worth knowing, and can certainly act as a role model for those who need one. But the end of this article sends prickles across my scalp.
" . . Gelhorn's capacity for anger remains the most beguiling aspect" of these letters? First, the examples of anger in the review depict political angst, which all of us right thinking liberals (no puns intended) can share. It is not awe-inspiring. Then we have examples of moral deafness towards an abused and dispossessed population and outright viciousness towards an adopted son -- not spoken in the heat of the moment, but written and sent in cold contemplation of the effect of these words, or in an awe-inspiring indifference.
This is hardly beguiling.
And what exactly were this person's accomplishments? She was a journalist. She knew, wedded and bedded various famous men. It is nice that she be remembered. But something happens when excessive air is pumped into small balloons --- they go pop!
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The homework issue says so much about . . .
[Read the article: Building a hate for learning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]. . . about ourselves, our culture, our view of childhood, what we see as the road to success, happiness, etc. Can a child learn in the classroom? Of course. But how is a teacher to know what each child, YOUR child, has learned? How much time can a teacher devote to a child, YOUR child, during each class time? Not much, if any. Can a child learn without DOING? No. What are we teaching when we support a child's complaints about work, when we say that the work required to learn is minimal, and that play is more important? THINK ABOUT IT.
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Hudgins has got to be a made-up name
[Read the article: The Sept. 11 that never was]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This has to be a fake letter from a fake person, right? I mean, nobody could be so stupid and still exist. I mean, this has to be some bored right-wing provocateur who is guffawing up his sleeve. Compare a movie about Reagan that was pulled from mass exposure because of Republican outcry over the truths that were about to be aired to a mythological diatribe? Good joke, Mr. H!
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Could Blair have been something more than Bush's poodle?
[Read the article: Labor's love lost]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It occurs to me, call me mad, but it occurs to me that Blair has seen his role as being a buffer between Bush's amentia and a vulnerable world. Re: the episode of the open mike. All the concentration has been on Bush's comments. Blair received them, tried to deflect them, as a good trooper playing a double role. Is it his fault that his climbing into bed with the devil to prevent him from worse mischief failed? Oh, what a twisted fate! To have meant so well and still be so at fault, to ultimately sink into moral blindness and corruption, while still imagining one's self pursuing, perhaps covertly, a moral imperative.
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I can't believe this nonsense
[Read the article: How can great love just stop, just like that?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I love reading letters like these, because there is so much left unsaid, in a transparent effort to disguise unpleasant or inconvenient little truths. This lasted one year? You saw each other every six weeks? That is eight times! Eight times! If I believe you that the meetings were every six weeks. And you are 40, and have never had a close relationship? But with a daughter? And your interchanges were always loving and cheerful? No pressures? No complaints? No expectations or demands? He fled because he sniffed you out and he recognized what he was getting into. Ladies, men have as much right to test the waters, to pursue our happiness and avoid our unhappiness as you do.
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"The stuff most people are writing . . ."
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Heather: logorheia. Please edit.