Letters to the Editor
Quiet Type
Published Letters: 655 Editor's Choice: 32
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Rather. Not.
[Read the article: The Bill Moyers documentary on our failed and barren press]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I hadn't seen that blustering, smarmy, crybaby/blind patriot Dan Rather performance on David Letterman before watching this Moyers program. Good God, that was one part embarrassing, nine parts frightening. (And btw, "drumroll" is sadly all too literal a phrase for the hyped up media mania of the network headline montage.)
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Why God invented the delete function.
[Read the article: My husband read my journal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The LW says: "It contained all of my fears about our relationship --- many in unflattering terms -- it was basically my place to get my worst thoughts out and then let them go."
About that "let them go" part: That's where the delete function would have come in handy. Spill the vitriol, then dump it. I can't imagine why the LW didn't edit out this stuff once she was married (if not before). I'm sure it was hardly literature she'd prize for her old age, and I'm surprised it didn't at least occur to her that she was risking her husband someday finding it. He simply found it sooner than later.
Good luck to these newlyweds, and may this serve to caution others. Privacy? There's no stinkin' privacy.
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Gwool:
[Read the article: My husband read my journal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh God, I just read your post from Wednesday and was cracking up. Wonderful stuff. Thanks, many thanks, for the many laughs!
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"Her Mother, Herself"
[Read the article: Should I tell my daughter about her mother's two abortions?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm more inclined to think that if the daughter knows her mom has had abortions, it will legitimize the abortion option for her. (Not that there's anything wrong with it; I'm just saying that daughters who see their mothers as role models tend to be okay with the things their mothers have done.)
And yes, Dad, keep your mouth shut. It's your business, but it's none of your business.
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Was she wanted?
[Read the article: Should I tell my daughter about her mother's two abortions?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Also -- I guarantee (GUARANTEE) your daughter will be plagued with the thought that she wasn't really wanted, either.
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Unfunny Fondling
[Read the article: Fondling Stephen Colbert]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Fonda Fondling wasn't funny. That's why it was cringe-inducing. It was all about her, crashing in to tell the world that yes, yes, I'm still sexy, using Colbert as a prop.
The amazing, charming, adorable Colbert as nothing-but-prop is pure ick, no matter who's attempting it.
Fonda isn't sexy anymore, and she should stop trying to be. Heck, when you're 20, if you're trying to be sexy then you aren't.
It just wasn't funny.
Now Ann Coulter crawling all over him? THAT would be funny!
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"Can we keep him, can we?"
[Read the article: I don't want more kids but my wonderful husband does]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You know how kids beg and beg for a dog, promising to high heaven that they'll take care of it? And they do, for about a month, and then Mom takes care of it for the next 15 years? That's all I'm going to say.
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How about being a social advocate????
[Read the article: The boss's incompetent son wants an employment reference!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You know what, LW? I think YOU'RE the one not qualified for your job. You work in social advocacy -- hello, irony.
Damn, the young man has problems. Give him a break. You told the reference checker the truth; you said the kid had some deficits but may have overcome them at college. Just say it again next time someone calls. The calls will stop as the poor kid gets some new jobs under his belt and you recede into history.
And Cary, either you have never worked in an office in your life, or you are as brutal as any soul-deadened corporate clone.
Unbelievably mean, cowardly, stupid advice.
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Don't tattle to Dad because:
[Read the article: The boss's incompetent son wants an employment reference!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]P.S. What do you want to bet that Board Member Dad TOLD the kid to use LW as a reference?
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What outcome is LW hoping for?
[Read the article: My sister is having an illicit affair]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I guess I'm missing something here, because I am failing to see any connection whatsoever between revealing the Cheating Sister's secret to Mom and Other Sister, and the greater happiness of any of the parties involved.
Unless -- the Adulterous Sister feels utterly unloved and abandoned by her family, and that's why she desperately gravitates to men who can give her nothing, and if she only knew how adored and unconditionally supported by her family she really is, she'd develop the confidence and inner strength to find a decent man....
Is that the case, LW? If so, tell the secret,right in front of Cheating Sister, and share the most uplifting, huggy, cry-y, loving, supportive moment of your lives together.
If this isn't the case, what's the point?
And yes, go visit her, and tell her how much you love her and that it breaks your heart to watch her self-destruct over some useless cheating man (and the next useless man she hooks up with after him), and then take her by the hand to a family counseling appointment. LW, your sister is deeply, deeply disturbed.
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We need a "war on drugs," all right!
[Read the article: Psych meds drove my son crazy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ms. Bauer, we all owe a debt of gratitude to people like you, who are willing to share the sad horror stories lurking behind our culture's sick ease with prescription drugs.
Bless you and your son, who have suffered so much from these alleged treatments. It is a miracle he managed to stay alive during this harrowing episode that must have felt like decades.
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To Brian Neary:
[Read the article: Psych meds drove my son crazy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Brian Neary writes: One could only hope that no one in Quiet Type’s family should ever need prescription drugs and be denied them because of “our culture’s sick ease” with their usage.
Brian, since you're so interested in my family, perhaps you'd like to know of my mother's allergic reactions to several prescriptions, my brother's depression exacerbated by "anti-depressants," and my father's death from internal bleeding created by cocktails of drugs with tiny little mouse-type warnings of innocuous little side effects like stomach bleeding.
Drugs are prescribed like candy, with very little depth of knowledge and very little respect for their power.
It's time we all got a lot smarter and a lot more cynical about them.