Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 646 Editor's Choice: 32
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Cary's DMV hangup:
[Read the article: My therapist is making faces at me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fear of the DMV is utterly reasonable. It's really very simple. Your driver's license represents your freedom, autonomy, independence, adulthood -- that is to say, your very personhood. And the DMV is a powerful, crushing entity, with annoying little folks given the terrifying authority to capriciously grant or refuse permission to maintain your personhood. For anyone whose parental/childhood buttons may be pushed by the unpleasantness of groveling to some bureaucrat, holding one's breath in fear that the test will not be passed, the DMV can be an absolutely awful experience put off as long as possible.
But here's the thing: If you go sooner than later, the anxiety-producing deadline aspect of it all is reduced. Also, if you treat those DMVers with some humanity, give them a smile, look them in the eye, they appreciate it. Think of it from their point of view: It's gotta suck knowing people kind of hate you just because of your job!
All that said, yeah, I'd probably appreciate someone who said, "Get the hell over to the DMV before your license expires!"
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Just ducky
[Read the article: My therapist is making faces at me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Whadda fuck? You lookin' at me all da time widdose squinty-kinda eyes. You fuckin' FAKIN' it wid me? Are you?"
Haha - I gotta admit, visions of Tony were dancing in my head too when I read LW's letter!
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Murdoch would love it
[Read the article: Don't sell my company to Rupert Murdoch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Good grief, readers, take a quick moment to schadenfreude it up all you want, then settle back and ponder the reality of the scummiest man in media scummying up yet another American institution. Is that what you really, really want?
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I LOVE this:
[Read the article: "The World Without Us"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"There is no wild, simply the places man chooses not to live. The only truly wild species left are those that live in opposition to man. The rat, the roach, the pigeon, the ant, the beasts who make their way surviving because they are the most fit to do so. That is the wilderness not the secured and hermetically sealed environment of Yellow Stone.
Yellow Stone in a museam, beautiful and filled with wonders, but it is not the wild. The wild is between the cracks in the sidewalk where grass grows in defiance of man's will."
Clockwork Smurf, this is simply beautiful. I'm sending it along to some friends, if you don't mind.
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Back at Clockwork Smurf:
[Read the article: "The World Without Us"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Presuming you weren't being sarcastic, feel free to quote me. =o)"
Not being sarcastic, and already did the copy edit thang! (As a lover of Yellowstone --and btw I found breaking it up as "Yellow Stone" extremely interesting -- I had a bit of an epiphany reading it and wanted to share.)
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What's the relationship context?
[Read the article: My boyfriend is checking out chicks while I'm standing right there!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, LW's already written back that she's going to have a civil talk with boyfriend.
Still, I can't help but be curious (mostly on behalf of many others who deal with this) about the context of it all.
IF he really does blatantly scope other women as opposed to merely notice them:
She's been seeing him for a year. Was he always like this, and she's tired of dealing with it? In that case, it's a natural time in the evolution of a relationship to stop pretending that you like what you don't, and get real with your mate.
If it's a new development, it can signal that their relationship is fizzling.
And either way, if he's being "appreciative" of strangers but never gives her a compliment or is otherwise taking her hugely for granted, that's BIG trouble.
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Bloviating on blogs
[Read the article: I have guilty knowledge about my girlfriend]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please. This relationship blogging stuff is puffed-up, self-serving, one-sided fantasy anyway. File it in your brain as fiction and create your own non-fiction with her.
And DON'T blog about it. What a creepy violation of privacy and trust.
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The truth is in there.
[Read the article: What you missed while watching "Ask a Ninja"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I don't believe we are at the advent of a third party, but third party events in U.S. history have always had an effect on the two main behemouths."
Behemouths? Best typo/misspelling/wordplay ever! Thanks for the morning laugh.
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Asking about Ask a Ninja
[Read the article: What you missed while watching "Ask a Ninja"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, why the juvenile headline? Reeks of Republican-putdown, I'd say.
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Restless legs and cheesy songs
[Read the article: Joseph LeDoux's heavy mental]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tomhere, music has the power to create permanent mental connections, but for me, so does a truly magnificent pun. I will never be able to watch that restless legs commercial again without thinking that somewhere out there is a band they should be dancing to!
Back to the connections, again -- last weekend some spontaneous karaoke broke out at a party; the host had a karaoke function on his cable programming so we were selecting songs from a relatively small menu. Here's a question for the neuroscientists: Why were the cheesiest, most annoying songs that were hated so much when endured on radio, so much blasted FUN when we were singing them together?
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Next show, O'Reilly will be wearing a "Nominate Clinton" button.
[Read the article: Michelle Malkin's hate sites]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I caught a few moments of O'Reilly's laughably transparent (at least to me)indignation at posted comments about Senator Clinton.
When Bill O'Reilly can bluster about poor Hillary Clinton's terrible treatment on DailyKos or any other site, it is SERIOUSLY time to realize that Republicans are salivating to see her get the nomination -- and to ask why that is so. The answer is: They're savvy enough marketers to know that AnyWhiteGuy will win against her by virtue of being White and Guy, and ESPECIALLY now that all that rousing talk about getting out of Iraq has melted away like cotton candy in the mouth. This is not the way I want it to be, it just IS.
Bill O'Reilly is just one piece on the big chessboard (a knight, who can make all kinds of stealthy,surprise moves). Democratic spokespersons appearing on these shows have got to stop playing it so goddam polite and get on the offensive!
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Not to be nosy, butt...
[Read the article: A man farted in my face on the plane and I said nothing!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Desire is the root of all suffering. Do not desire to not suffer the flatulent among us. Namaste.