Letters to the Editor
mkelly9772
Published Letters: 13
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Turn the question around
[Read the article: My vegan friend insists I justify myself]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The meat from one cow can feed hundreds of people. You need thousands of grains of wheat to feed one person. How does this person justify massacring millions of souls in order to save one cow? Is it because the cow belongs to the animal kingdom? If so, then why is this person so prejudiced against organisms that do not belong to the same kingdom as he (or she) belongs? Who's going to stand up for the trillions of wheat plants we systematically raise in factory-like conditions and murder in cold chlorophyll each year, not to eat them but to eat their offspring?!? They have as much right to live as any other organism on this planet, don't they?
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Dummy
[Read the article: Did New Yorkers pay for Giuliani's affair?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You don't expose him for this now. You do it in late September or early October.
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Point of order
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You said:
"I'm not going to put something in my body for a quick fix that's going to tear me down," he told Wallace, meaning steroids. But he also said he'd eaten the anti-inflammatory drug "Vioxx like it was Skittles."
At the time he took the Vioxx, he did not know the side effects. Nobody did, not even the FDA. He assumed that since it passed FDA approval that it would be fine to take, as most of us do.
And I do not agree with the reader who said that taking Vioxx was unbecoming of an upstanding athlete (not a direct quote). Advil is an anti-inflammatory, and we don't begrudge athletes from taking that. As long as he obtained the drug legally and it was not considered a no-no (anti-inflammatories are used all the time by all pro athletes, even the "good" ones) I don't see how we should have a problem with that. And besides, you can tell by his demeanor in the interview that he was pissed off that he didn't know then what he knows now about those pills.
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Avoiding NFL conflicts would be easy
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Make the semifinals the day before the NFL conference finals, which are both on a Sunday, and the final either the Saturday or Sunday before the Super Bowl if the NFL has a bye, or the day before the Super Bowl if there is no bye.
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Fourth and inches
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]JRoth95 am right there with you, King. Not to mention the ultra-scientific method of having the refs run out with the chains exactly perpendicular to the sideline. I mean, they'd never get that wrong, would they?
Well, it doesn't matter how they run. They have a little marker on the chain that sits on the painted yard line (the 30 or 35 or 40 or whatever falls in the middle of the 10 yards) and when they run out, they place that on the stripe. That part's accurate.
What I find really hysterical is that even with all that inaccuracy the ref still finds the need to hold the link of chain to spot the ball on a fourth and inches to spot it on the hash just exactly right. And you know, they could use all of this same logic to make sure the stick does get placed exactly where, well, where they eyeballed where the guy went down or out of bounds.
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This isn't political, it's about humanity
[Read the article: King Kaufman Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Boycotting Russia was political, we just didn't agree with their form of government. If we were to boycott a British games because we don't like who they elected to Parliament, that would be political.
This isn't about the Chinese structure of government, or about the people running it. This is about a group of people who kidnap and murder people for no good reason. This is an issue of humanity, not politics.
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A 10 second clock would keep the game just as long as it is now
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you only had 10 seconds to get a ball upcourt and shoot it, defenses would just employ a full court press on every play and double team all the best shooters once they get to half court, which would create turnover after turnover. And of course there would be substitutions after each clock stoppage so the defense can put in defenders and the offense can put in shooters and good dribblers, which would keep the clock stopped even longer. And even if the offense did get to the point where they could get off a good shot, because of the urgency of the situation I would think there would be even more of a chance of a sloppy foul, which multiplies the clock stoppages even further because with a 10 second clock you'd have more possessions in which a foul can occur.
I do agree that we need to shorten the 35 second clock after two minutes, but you have to give them a reasonable chance to set up good offenses and defenses to keep the flow going. So anywhere from 16-24 seconds would probably be more reasonable. 10 seconds just strangles the flow to much.
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Hmm...
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A hot Rick Pitino coached team from a certain bourbon loving state playing against an ACC stalwart in a game to decide who gets to go the Final Four. Now why is this stirring up memories?
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I love how waterboarding is described as "simulated drowning"
[Read the article: Ashcroft suggests CIA sought legal approval after torture began]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]CNN.com is doing just that in their article about Ashcroft. There's no simulation involved. If you are being waterboarded, you ARE being drowned. Just look at the video at unsubscribe-me.org and try to tell me otherwise.
Anybody who uses physical pain as a tool to get another human being to do what they want or to punish is a torturer and thus a criminal. It's really that simple.
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The more we talk about this the less we talka bout the real issues
[Read the article: Palin, pregnancy and the presidency]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Republicans would love to have a nice long drawn-out debate over this issue. They want us talking about moral issues. They don't want us talking about the real issues or Sarah Palin's qualifications as a Vice-President, because that is a debate they cannot win.
Yesterday on Larry King the Republicans were actually trying to make a case that this issue shows Palin is qualified for the job! My grandmother went through the same family issues when my sister and I were born that Palin is going through now, but my grandmother, rest her soul, is the last person I would have wanted to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.