Letters to the Editor
bcoogler
Published Letters: 46 Editor's Choice: 6
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Posing?
[Read the article: Funny, they didn't look like Hannity and Colmes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now really, did these fellows actually misrepresent themselves?
They did say they were from Faux News....
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Not my experience
[Read the article: Do loose chicks sink dicks?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Okay, let's think about this logically. If a girl is being pursued by some guy she doesn't like/doesn't find attractive, any guesses which way this unwanted attention will drive her libido? Doesn't it follow, therefore, the same conditions would be true if the roles are reversed?
One difference, though, is some guys think they have something to prove. If a guy finds a girl propositioning him unmotivating, but thinks he needs to jump in the sack to demonstrate his manliness to his peers, then you've got a double dose of performance anxiety on top of possible drug use, booze, sleep deprivation, etc.
On the other hand, guys who are like me when I was in college, who don't join fraternities, aren't on the football team, don't overdo the booze, and don't take nodoze to cram all night long, don't have performance problems either.
After getting married and trying for a baby, I was a slave to whenever my wife decided the temperature was right to give it a go. No predicting (for me at least) when I might have to drop whatever I was doing when I got the come hither call. I couldn't have been happier.
So please, don't tell me girls wanting it is a turn-off. It isn't.
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Not so fast, djt
[Read the article: The GOP begins to implode]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You cannot collect Social Security unless you have a work history. You need to have worked at least 10 years with a valid SSN number to be eligible for retirement benefits.
All those elderly parents you fear do not qualify.
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Cheney uber Alles
[Read the article: Checks and balances? Not even within the administration]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]More and more, Bush strikes me as a follower rather than a leader. His role in the White House seems to be court jester, which would fit with a lifetime pattern of behavior.
Bush seems to be someone who never really figured out what he wanted to do in life; no occupation ever fired his imagination. With all the choices open to someone from a rich family, he didn't want to be anything. He started off aimlessly, fell into drinking, latched onto religion, and is now doing what he knows best—being a figurehead. This he learned when daddy and friends made him a board member of various companies.
Given how Bush likes to strut around and pretend to be something he isn't, I think he would have been happiest working as an actor in a community playhouse. Instead, he is playing on the world stage, and what a destructive role it is.
Cheney's comments and attitude about how he wants things run is more important than anything Bush has to say. Given the track record we have, I predict the White House will simply ignore any Supreme Court decision Cheney doesn't like. After all, there's a "war" on, and we have the precedent of Abraham Lincoln ignoring a Supreme Court decision he didn’t like during the Civil War.
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A modest proposal
[Read the article: Guns on a plane]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Folks are, I hope, familiar with the term "satire?"
Don't take it so seriously--it's not meant to be.
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Red State Blues
[Read the article: Do Democrats need the South?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Three cheers for Southern Girl! A fine example of G.R.I.T.S (Girls Raised In The South).
As the Republican Party has already demonstrated by example, campaigning by demonizing population blocks ultimately leads to failure. Frankly, this lifelong Southerner is tired of the sanctimonious finger-pointing; the insipid prejudice depicting Southerners as ignorant, inbred hicks. Should I point fingers to the anti-busing riots in Boston years ago, and claim that represents all of New England? How about the Watts riots in Los Angeles? Is that representative of California?
And how do those Northern and Western race riots compare to Atlanta? Oh wait; there haven’t been any race riots in Atlanta during the same time period.
This is not to say prejudice doesn’t exist in the South; it most certainly does, just as it does everywhere else.
Yes, the Republicans do dominate the South… for now. As Southern Girl rightly pointed out, it didn’t happen over night, and there's no reason to assume the change is permanent. Do not write off the South as a lost cause.
Yes, there are liberals who live here, and no, I am not a Northern transplant. My family has been in the greater Atlanta area since the 1850’s, a longer time period than the Republicans have been a major political party.
Republicans have been good at one thing--long-term thinking. This is precisely what Democrats must learn do as well. If you think long-term, you quickly realize no part of the US should be treated as a write-off.