Letters to the Editor
Quiet Type
Published Letters: 698 Editor's Choice: 32
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stop being stooooopid
[Read the article: Obama co-chairman: Clinton didn't cry for Katrina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I didn't see any tears. I don't know why anybody's talking about tears, except that somebody decided to say they saw it, and every other fool reporter just glommed on. Take a look at the freakin' footage. There's no tears, fake or otherwise. Now if you want to talk about that fakey little waver that came up in her voice, fine. Actually, not fine. All these petty dissections of candidate performances (wow! candidates perform? who knew!) are stupid as hell. Keep it up, keep it up, and we'll have another anti-America Republican in office again.
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The Ball Wall
[Read the article: Boobs to cure cancer?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They can pretend flashing breasts is noble instead of just more participation in the pornification of womankind, but it's "Girls Gone Cancery!"
To see this a bit more clearly, try to imagine men sending in shots of their sacks to promote testicular cancer awareness. Charming, isn't it?
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Troll La La
[Read the article: Help! I'm an Internet troll!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Want to bet this is a right winger pretending to be a liberal Salon reader for his own amusement?"
And here I thought it was Cary pretending to be a guiltridden troll for HIS own amusement. ;)
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Living in poetry
[Read the article: The letter E is purple]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Then again, maybe your son was watching Sesame Street that day and E was in purple. But I hope not. I think experiencing anything in more than the mundane conventional way is pretty wonderful. Mankind's feeble metaphors, actually lived. What richness.
It's why I liked acid.
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Sensing this is misunderstood
[Read the article: The letter E is purple]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Judging from these letters, either synesthesia isn't all that rare at all, or there's a misunderstanding of what it is?
I would think pretty much everybody creates associations between things, likely from either powerful childhood imprinting (I would associate January with white, too) or later repetitive hammering. But with the rare exception of that twilight almost-asleep period someone else mentioned (such as when I'm suddenly startled by a noise and see a flash of red before my closed eyes right before I open them), I wouldn't say I literally experience one perception as another. I don't look at a flower and taste paprika in my mouth; I don't hear a song and smell smoke in my nostrils. I thought that kind of overlapping sensory EXPERIENCE (not just mental association) was what distinguished synethesia from more ordinary mental connections, i.e., "I think of this sound as this color," as opposed to "I hear this sound and SEE this color before my eyes." The latter would be true neurological overlap, I would think, while the former would be just our average brains doing average things.
Well, I'm off to google all this.
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@lisacd about dreams
[Read the article: The letter E is purple]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have dreamed in color all my life and never quite believed it when I read most people don't. It doesn't make sense to me. If real, daytime life consists of color, why wouldn't the brain's processing of all that during dreams also be in color?
To me, the dreamers in black and white are intriguing, just for my puzzlement at how (and especially why) the brain would create that conversion. It seems akin to photography, where the stark contrasts of black and white and the gradations between are frequently far more compelling and interesting than "truer" color.
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@AJCalhoun
[Read the article: Chicago is Barack Obama's kind of town]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"If you can win, you do. If you can't win you do whatever else you can to further the peoples'business. Why would anyone just step aside? Obama gambled by challenging her signatures. I guess that was ungentlemanly, but by Chicago standards it was the equivalent of a salute."
Haha - it's funny because it's true. And there are far worse machinations going on at every petty job in America.
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Who's on top?
[Read the article: My partner is being stalked by a trolling MILF]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think the handling of the MILF (by the way, is that just you being mean about her being older than you?), has to depend on your man's professional relationship with her. What's the power dynamic? Who's on top, as it were? If he's more beholden to her, such as she's offering goods and services at the best price or best quality he can get, or she provides him work projects and assignments, he needs to nicely let her know he's unavailable, like, say, letting her know your wedding date. :) If he's in the power seat anyway, and she's as obnoxious as you're painting her, he can get a little caustic about it. Or if he's got a certain type of sense of humor, he can probably good-naturedly jolly her off this track.
I do think it's up to your man to handle this, though. Your getting involved in setting her straight is going to be just weird for him and frankly more than a bit emasculating.
One thing to keep in mind, though, is that her entire shtick could just be that, shtick. She may approach all the males in her business life like that, in the belief that it makes THEM feel all manly and good about working with her. It's quite possible that she has no real interest, and that reference to you as "competition" is just part of her empty flattery of your partner.