Letters to the Editor
Quiet Type
Published Letters: 655 Editor's Choice: 32
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I hope that navel you're gazing at is nice and healthy.
[Read the article: I'm brilliant but I can't settle down. I can't keep a job. What's wrong with me? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry, I just can't get past the scary part of your letter. You haven't had health insurance in years? What's up with your husband? Does he work? Does he have health insurance? Are you on it?
Because I have to tell you, if you don't have health insurance, you certainly don't have precious time to waste asking yourself all those other questions.
The starks overriding fact of life is that you are one injury or illness away from disaster. Yet you're screwing around with temp receptionist jobs that also do not offer health insurance, apparently putting off -- what, I'm not sure.
Geez, kids today! Get a job!
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Subtext, people, subtext.
[Read the article: This just in: Women are stupid!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't have to read more than a sentence of this to know that the article is a (not so)subliminal Hillary Pillory.
Come on, ladies AND gents, get with it.
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Pass the donuts.
[Read the article: My name is Jane, and I'm a drunkorexic]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let me count the disorders modern gals suffer all in the service of taming their appetites:
Call friends - yakkexia.
Hang out on the computer - internexia.
Get frisky - sexexia.
Smoke ciggies - nicotexia.
Exercise - sweatexia.
Fill out long forms - taxexia.
Oh, the slender humanity!
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Brain Drano
[Read the article: Could I quit the drinking but keep the hangovers? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As a person who nearly falls asleep after two drinks, I don't have much to contribute to the discussion of alcohol.
But I am familiar with the state of feeling purged, revitalized, just about born again after an 8 or 10 hour acid trip, so I find this letter intriguing.
There must be some type of chemical activity that goes on during the altered state of consciousness, with your mind discharging all kinds of clutter and stuff (even if it's beautiful stuff, like on acid) that just seems to get in the way of ordinary productiveness. Perhaps sweeping it all out during the period of intoxication, releasing all manner of thoughts, feelings and even aggression, renews psychic and physical energy for some people.
People who regularly fast report similar energizing experiences, with the added benefits of staying slim and cleaning out the old colon. Maybe that's the answer for those of us who are fond of that emptied-yet-fulfilled feeling.
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About that mortality thing
[Read the article: Die, Daddy, die!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just may be even more morbid than Shields, because I have a really strong feeling his dad is going to outlive him.
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@Shazzer4400
[Read the article: Could I quit the drinking but keep the hangovers? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You wrote that your "usual waking state feels like a hangover."
If you haven't already, have your blood pressure, blood sugar and thyroid checked. Diabetes and hypothyroidism can make you feel almost unbelievably lousy. If it's just low blood pressure, getting exercise forces the blood to move and clears the head.
Hope you feel better.
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Hot? Now that's funny.
[Read the article: Women ARE funny. And foxy!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Referring to Tina Fey as "hot" reminds me of the weight loss commercials where average looking women are kvelling over each other about how sexy, great, and beautiful they look. Of course, there's not a guy to be found amidst the ogle-fest.
Look, I'm a woman and even I can figure out that Tina Fey is not "hot." I think it's kind of sad to feel the need to describe her as such. She's plenty worthy without the empty flattery.
And about Rosanne Barr? I watch reruns of that old show and laugh my ass off at every one.
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Should have stuck with that initial "appalled" reaction.
[Read the article: Do not go gentle into that Eileen Fisher]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I second Blackpaw's emotion concerning the travesty of bumping the Gygax tribute from the front page for this beyond-drivel drivel, and I've never even played a videogame in my life. I had read about Gygax in the Chicago Tribune, which painted a picture of a 69-year-old man who still loved hearing from his Dungeons and Dragons fans, warmly welcomed travelers, and continued to host game parties at his home even while ailing. That is how you go gently into getting older, Mary Elizabeth.
I just can't understand why Salon tosses additional debris into the landfill that is the hysteria over having a 40th birthday. It makes Salon look as truly stupid as everything else out there. Come on, you can do better.
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Psycho Siblings
[Read the article: My half-brother locked me in the closet and I think I'm to blame]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think it is terribly telling that LW goes out of his way to say there was no sexual abuse. I actually think far MORE trauma went on than his baby mind has allowed his adult mind to remember... thus the confusion and shame that are percolating in this letter.
It is only in very recent years that sibling abuse (I'm not talking about rivalry, I'm talking about a powerful older sibling annihilating a younger one) has been recognized as the twisted thing that it is and not some charming rite of childhood. To those who can't believe that parents allowed this to go on (obliviously or otherwise), believe it.
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Hear me meow -- I mean roar
[Read the article: "Project Runway": The rundown]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The fiercest thing about Project Runway is the shark it's jumped.
Buh-bye. This bird has flown.
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That better part of valor thing.
[Read the article: Obama advisor Power resigns]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wouldn't have called Hillary a monster. Sybil, more like.
But I have to agree with those who think it's pretty unbelievably dumb to use such colorful, quotable language outside the USA and not expect it to reverberate here.
Can you get a PhD in street sense?
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She's mightily insulted.
[Read the article: Clinton camp uses "monster" comment for fundraising appeal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh God, this is hilarious. Hillary is insulted all the way to the bank.
It was only a few weeks ago that I would have been happy to see either her or Obama elected president, but I'm having serious doubts about her. How's that thin skin going to work for her when real life piles on? She is really making me nervous.
(If she had any sense of humor, she'd tie-in with Monster.com and be proud to call herself a "monster," somebody who's going to keep America employed!)
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A Little Fear Based Advice
[Read the article: Help! I'm committing professional suicide!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone....
If you leave this job, don't leave without a real plan for alternate income. It's getting seriously bad out there.
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The American Way
[Read the article: Tucker Carlson unintentionally reveals the role of the American press]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]American reporters have been kissing ass for at least as long as they've allowed the rest of America to believe that FDR could walk. And probably a lot further back than that.
I don't know what accounts for it, other than that keeping things looking rosy and under control keeps consumers spending and wars humming, and that's really all that's ever been terribly important.