Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 655 Editor's Choice: 32
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GOP, the party of drugs
[Read the article: What you missed while watching the Red Sox win]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Talk about yer cultural and pharmaceutical events! You'd have to be on meth to stay alert during these snoozefests and on barbituates to go along with these old basta-fascists.
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Oh God help me, I've become a corporate defender.
[Read the article: My boss says I'm a lesbian but I'm not!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In one of the stranger ironies of life, the LW WOULD be far happier in a corporate environment, where this blatant unprofessionalism and sexual harassment would have earned the boss a pink slip long ago.
The LW is young; she can dress any damn way she wants until the constraints of her future career force her into whatever uniform is required for continued success.
I hope she'll quit this obnoxious environment and get a job at Old Navy or Wal-Mart for that matter, where she'll be treated with far more respect.
And if you ask me, both Cary and this boss have a truly puzzling and annoying interest in this girl!
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Either/or
[Read the article: My wife thinks I'm cheating on her -- but I'm not!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Okay, LW. Is your wife remorseful and ashamed of herself and eager to make things right after she realizes she's goofed in thinking the voices are women's, or the panties aren't hers, or she's hit you for some actual reason? If so, MAYBE your marriage has a chance at healing.
If not? Don't waste any more of your youth.
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They think we're clearly dumb persons.
[Read the article: Did Romney mean to call Osama Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Expect much, much more of this calculated "misspeaking," as the GOP becomes more and more comfortable in its position that Americans are the most stupid, most easily misled people on the earth.
Well? Are we? Obama, himself a truly brilliant man, did himself no favors effectively calling HIMSELF the very words that must have made GOP hearts sing: "foreign, odd, clearly black" -- WTF??
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Extorted giving
[Read the article: Our office manager is a dental despot!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It was strange reading this letter, because for some unknown reason today I was flashing back to a memory from the 1970s. I was doing crappily-paid clerical work for "a major corporation," and each year a rep from United Way and the HR people would hold a big official meeting to get us to all to pledge semi-monthly amounts from our paychecks. The pressure was unbelievable. There'd be a big dog and pony show,very public, we'd all be given our own personal pledge cards, with these corporate strong-armers coming around to each of us to badger us and make us "choose" a pledge amount. It seems like this shindig would go on for hours till everybody was signed up. I don't think a single person working there felt they had the option to decline participation and still have a job.
From what I understand, United Way these days doesn't go into places of employment and pull this anymore. (And now that I think of it, it HAD to be that HR was getting kickbacks or "thank-yous" or SOMETHING to be that enthusiastic about the whole thing.) But I have never forgotten the obnoxious extortion of the whole affair, and 30 years later I have yet to give a dime to that charity.
LW, the hell with being peer-pressured into parting with a penny, if you don't want to. This mental dental job sounds miserable any way you slice it, so hold on to your earnings and invest them for your own old age. Neither of your dentists really, really needs your contribution to their marketing plan.
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Please, please be serious.
[Read the article: On Notice: Colbert trounces Obama on Facebook]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am dead serious when I say Mr. Colbert is the one candidate who could cure six years of international sickness in six weeks. He is simply the most charming, likable man in America. Allez, Colbert, allez!
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Well I'll be moistened.
[Read the article: Linguists: "Moist" makes women cringe]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I may be wrong about this, but I thought "moist" was a euphemism for "sweaty" from the prudish old days. Therefore, "moist" would hold both the unpleasant, possibly subconsious "sweaty" connotation and the possibly more unpleasant "oh yeah, let's just continue to think bodily functions suck" connotation.
Personally, I'm okay with moist. I don't think of sweat or damp, fungal growths. (Oh wait, I guess now I AM thinking of them.) But if I just hear the word, my instant association is with wonderful, melt-in-the-mouth cake. Thank you, Betty Crocker, and thank you, power of repetitive advertising upon the psyche of a little kid.
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The cheating is the point.
[Read the article: My husband is groping my sister]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't know about this runaway alcoholic train scenario Cary has described. To me, your hubby sounds like just a standard-issue cheater who uses drinking as an excuse and a cover for whoring around. And your sister is rotten, too.
Oh, and they're both liars. There was no intercourse? Please.
Your husband is a serial cheater. Get yourself an STD test, then get yourself a divorce lawyer. Take care of yourself and your kids, LW.
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Stick to novels, Mary.
[Read the article: Are you sexually jealous of Hillary Clinton?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's say that I DID vote with my vajayjay/pink bits/quim/smerconish. Wouldn't that mean I'd WANT Hillary in the house so I could enjoy all the resulting Bill photo-ops and pleasure myself to his magnificence?
Mary Gordon's theory is offensive, but not even in an intriguing way, just in kind of a dumb, poorly thought-out way.
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Subtext, people, subtext.
[Read the article: How Oprah ruined the marathon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some people will do ANYTHING to sidle their toned, muscular rump up to Oprah's.
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We need a little nastiness.
[Read the article: Stop lying to yourself. You love Dennis Kucinich]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Great article, and great reasons to vote for him. Unfortunately, he comes off as a friendly, really great teacher, but he doesn't have a strong, manic leadership vibe. And that's the one thing Dems and Reps have in common: We all want a bulwark up there. Or if you prefer accuracy, we want the image of bulwark up there. We don't want a smart, rational leprechaun. We want someone who radiates some crazy, bullheaded strength. (And I hadn't even heard about the other-worldly stuff; he'd have done well to keep it to himself.)
Frankly, I wish Obama would stop smiling and get a crazy glint of conviction in his eye. His friendliness is going to do him in, too.
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Keeping Up With Oprah
[Read the article: How Oprah ruined the marathon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Say, isn't it time to update this column with news about how Oprah has ruined girls' education in Africa?
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@neilpaul
[Read the article: How Oprah ruined the marathon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"There will always be a group of quasi-elite anything who resent total hacks, precisely because hacks show the inanity of the whole enterprise."
I love this line, in my more pessimistic moments applied to just about any human endeavor you can name.