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Published Letters: 20 Editor's Choice: 2
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Let's not make everything sexist
[Read the article: Unstable starlets and little-girl voices]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When an overly aggressive, difficult, and unreasonable person (to you self-help fans, that's assertive, demanding, uncompromising) comes along, people will be irked one way or another.
It doesn't matter if that person is a woman or a man. People will talk, whine, demonize, and vilify. That's just the way it is. You don't like how people call Hillary "shrill?" Beats how they call guys like that "assholes" or "dickheads" or other things that I don't even want to put down.
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Try this
[Read the article: My new assistant laughs at everything I say]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Get the assistant to read this article.
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Please do not compare it with them
[Read the article: Bashing Elizabeth Edwards]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I would actually thank the gods if I ever find any one of Lindsay Lohand or Britney Spears in my bed. If I find it even ANYWHERE in my house I'd go Jack Torrance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Torrance) on her.
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As long as...
[Read the article: Interview with Helen Thomas]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Then don't. What's the point? You'd be listening to yourself while covering your ears.
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To all the regressives that find their way onto this website: hypocrisy and checks
[Read the article: Bush and Cheney walk, too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]People being people, living under a self-imposed code of morality and ethics, backed by an unseen almighty god, will do what people have always done: proclaim one thing and do another.
Were some Dems hypocritical? Sure. Were some Reps hypocritical? Definitely. So what? Just because we have had hypocrites in the past means we should stop calling out violations of laws? If so, why bother with the laws? Why don't we just amend the Constitution by nulling it out?
This same set of unrealistic guidelines says something to the effects of (and I'm paraphrasing since I don't recite something mindlessly), "let he who is without sin cast the first stone." Well. That pretty much rules out -- oh -- everyone on this planet. To claim exception is, depending on how literal you want to take that sacred text of yours, by definition, to be hypocritical.
So let's just clear the air here: we're all hypocrites. We all claim to be more saintly than we know we are. We all expect more from others than we do ourselves. How we each deal with this discrepancy within us defines us and is, for the most part, between ourselves and our conscience.
Accusing another of hypocrisy is a pointless exercise.
Now comes the second part of my post: checks. Accepting the fact that we're all hypocrites. We need to check each other (just not ourselves). When you see a Dem violating the law, by all means, do what you can (theoretically lawfully but we've seen exceptions) to convict him. Conversely, when we see a Rep violating the law, we should do the same. I am doing it. We are doing it.
With this back-and-forth of checks and balances, suggested by the establishment of the three (not four as the vice president suggests) equal branches (what this chief executive evidently doesn't believe in), it is hoped that we collectively keep our inherent hypocrisy from ruining us. Unfortunately some of us fell asleep at the wheel and/or cower to intimidation for the fear of being labeled as unpatriotic (oh don't get me started), we didn't do what we were supposed to do, and we're in this mess now. We are trying to make up for it by raising enough hell as to wake our sleeping representatives to do their jobs.
So don't expect us to stop doing what we're doing by calling our attitude and efforts hypocritical. You bet it is. And when it's your turn to check on us (in a year or so), we'd expect you to do the same.
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... so it does have something to do with oil, then?
[Read the article: "You can car pool"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not be vigilant to watch out for weapons of mass destruction.
Not be on a look out for the axis of evil.
Not bring about awareness of the Iran situation to others.
Not take an interest in international crises and work towards gathering world support to lessen unilateral commitments.
But carpool and pray?!
Oh yeah. Screw the towers. Let me finish reading this story.
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Goose vs Gander? Not even
[Read the article: Leahy and Conyers blast back at White House "stonewalling"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'd hate to have to bargain away the right to privacy just so these two will testify.
There is a significant difference between the two situations: one involves operations of a publicly held office accountable to voters while the other involves conversations held by citizens in their private lives.
I would say the former has more of an obligation to divulge its records than the latter, unless a case can be made that the testimony of these two constitute a breach in national security. And before you laugh at the preposterous reasoning behind that claim, don't for a moment underestimate how often this excuse is used by this administration.
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Didn't you want equality?
[Read the article: Women want brawn for now, brains for good?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Everyone has his or her own list of criteria when choosing a mate. Guys want hot chicks but may get tired of the dumb sex toy when she gets old. Gals want the exciting bad boy until she wants a husband to have kids with.
Either we do a wholesale critical analysis of this self-indulgent tendency in human mating behavior altogether, or we live with it and let everyone try to have their cake and eat it too. I'm more for the latter and would shut up and let it be.
As for equality, well -- we may be getting closer to it. We're now arriving to a place where women can be every bit as shallow and self-serving as the men that they have been whining about.
I call that progress.
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My mind changed on September the 11th, 2001
[Read the article: From Bush, more of the same]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"My mind changed on September the 11th, 2001."
While sitting there like an idiot trying to read from a children's book, no less.
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Oh please tell me your perfect religion, then
[Read the article: Feminist author attacked in India]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The intellectual approach would be to recognize that these are fanatics and fundamentalists and the wicked who use religion to justify the evil that they do.
But judging from the comments here, we shall have none of that.
So whose religion is better, then, yours? Please let me what your religion is that has a perfect following that hasn't continue to sin.
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Don't punish Paris like this
[Read the article: Coming soon: Karl Rove as Jesus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]>Maybe Rove and Paris Hilton will drive off a cliff together
Oh please do not punish Paris like this. She deserves much better. Try Rove and Dick.
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We did pull out too soon
[Read the article: Bush on the lesson of Vietnam: Stay longer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We should at least have deployed Bush and Cheyney and put them in frontline infantry first.