Letters to the Editor
stilltheone
Published Letters: 506 Editor's Choice: 31
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patrick
[Read the article: Finale wrap-up: "American Idol"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Um, I'm not dumb and I've never voted with a cell phone.
Tens of millions of people watch this show. They include most teenagers I know, most of the professional and non-professional people in my office (they're not dumb either ... if a dummie gets in accidentally, we fire them).
Oh yeah, and my 80-year old mother-in-law who was a major David Cook fan (I don't quite understand this and it may take some time to heal the breach in our relationship this has caused). She didn't vote on her cell phone either, but she kept calling her kids -- only the DC kids not the DA kids -- and telling them to vote, early and often -- right up front she psyched out the fact that you're not limited to one vote.
Let's see, what else. Oh yeah, the Idol dummies raised $65 million for charity this year alone. I did use my cellphone to make a donation to Idol Gives Back. Now, THAT truly was dumb! I thought David Archuleta would take my call.
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Bravo, laserhorse...
[Read the article: Finale wrap-up: "American Idol"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What you said. Exactly.
I've only watched attentively last year and this. You don't get it until you watch. And when you do, it's just this great talent competition with a kind of love-to-hate-it format and some fun, funny (and sometimes moving) backstage stories, combined with this huge payoff at the end for the finalists and winner. It's an absolutely brilliant combination of competition, reality TV and celebrity lotto. And you can watch it with the kids, too. What's not to like?
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No easy answer
[Read the article: My brother abused me -- now our parents want us all together again!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Life is full of difficult choices. This is one of them. Your choice is between hurting your parents and revisiting your own painful relationship with your brother. I tend to agree with Cary. You were injured in the past, but now you're in the position of strength, and in a postion where what you choose to do today can either be hurtful or healing to others. What matters now is how you deal with this moment and this choice.
Your mother is not asking that you become best buddies with your brother. She's asking that you put aside your hurt for a couple of hours so that she can experience all of her kids together in one place on a big day in her life. I don't think in the scheme of things it's too big a request for you to honor.
I once made the mistake of sharing with my mother a disagreement I was having with one of my siblings (nothing, really, in comparision to your issue with your brother, so I'm not trying to compare), and I regretted it as soon as the words came out of my mouth. The expression on my mother's face said that she thought I was telling her becuase I blamed her for my own inability to get along with my sister. I say this because part of your mother's request, I think, is asking you to let her know that you don't hold her responsible for what your brother did. I don't know what your relationship with your parents is like, but I think that you'll regret it later if you don't give her that peace of mind.
Good luck.
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Please...
[Read the article: Flip this house. Please!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You rented for 2 decades? Wouldn't that make you 38 or thereabouts? And you're this immature? I pity that child of yours.
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I can't wait for the sequel....
[Read the article: The ugliest election]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]HBO will be airing Part II "Sunshine State pushes McCain to Electoral College Victory" this Christmas. Obama fans, keep those cable bills paid up.
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Right on the money Cary.
[Read the article: He dribbles! He shoots! He drives me insane!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You don't move to the suburbs to avoid noise. You move to the country for that (or at least to the 5-acre zoning suburbs if you can swing it). The sound of dribbling and shooting is the sound of a kid getting off his ass, putting down the video games, avoiding drugs and alchohol, getting exercise and staying out of trouble. Everything we say we want our kids to do! Yeah, and maybe stoking his dream of being in the NBA. It's hard to imagine a happier sound! GET permanently over yourself and start being a good neighbor.
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Who's fact checking what?
[Read the article: Fact-checking Clinton's RFK comment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This article fact checks Hillary's comment about her husband's 1992 nomination. Not her RFK comment. Why does the headline suggest otherwise? Typical anti-Hillary press shit.
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Please...
[Read the article: I'm a mom who needs more solitude]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Someone who "needs a lot of personal space and a lot of time just by myself doing nothing, recovering from the shock waves that even very low levels of stimulus can bring about in my inner world" has no business being a parent. Give your kid up for adoption, now, before you irretrievably screw up its life.
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Thanks Glenn.
[Read the article: Network news anchors praise the job they did in the run-up to the war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your coverage of this important issue is really terrific.
I was pleasantly surprised that Katie was willing to accept some blame. Good for her!
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The world only spins forward...
[Read the article: Has California reached a turning point on gay marriage?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's not possible that the movement for equal rights for GLBT people, having arrived at where it is today from where it began (in the sense of the modern gay right's movement) in the late 1960's, will be stopped anywhere short of full equality. Not in this country, and not with the younger generation polling the way it does on these issues. It's purely a matter of time, purely a matter of waiting for an older generation to die off. I hope I'm around in 25 years when elderly politicians are forced to make tearful apologies for where they stood on these issues today. (I'm sad to say that includes BOTH Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.)
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Call me crazy but...
[Read the article: The fight over Florida and Michigan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Perhaps the "uncommited" Michigan delegates should remain uncommitted, i.e., free to vote how they please. Or is that too simplistic?
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A True Leader for Gay Rights
[Read the article: Blow-back from Clinton supporters hurting Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If Obama were the great man his followers seem to think he is, he'd make the plain, beautiful statements in support of gay marriage that another straight, black leader just did yesterday. You Obama-ites should read about Governor Paterson in NY. THAT's what a leader does. Not talking about marriage being between a man and a woman and surrounding himself with homophobic black ministers so he can get the black vote in South Carolina.
Obama will never be my president. But I'm sure glad Paterson is my governor.