Letters to the Editor
Xrandadu Hutman
Published Letters: 2714 Editor's Choice: 52
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Cary Tennis = Peggy Lee?
[Read the article: My boyfriend is nice, but I fantasize about wilder times]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't feel in any position to answer the LW's question, because I am there too. I am in that place of having a really good thing, but wanting something different anyway. Of being safe and secure but longing for excitement and things that seem more real and meaningful somehow. I long for a life that is bold instead of in italics.
But I do know one thing: Creativity and imagination are key. If you're a painter, and an artist, then you have a strong compulsion toward creative activity. Why stop with painting? Why not apply that imagination and creative effort to your whole life? To your relationship with your boyfriend? To your day-to-day activities? Try some different sex. Try some different hobbies and leisure fun. Be resourceful. Drive your car down the street you never go down. Etc.
"Inertia" is defined as an object remaining at rest or in motion until acted upon by an outside force. Don't wait for the outside force to act upon you. Become the outside force.
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Elizabeth Edwards, thank you for
[Read the article: Ann Coulter gets what she deserves]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Elizabeth Edwards was direct, forceful, and repeatedly made her point very clear. Ann Coulter was evasive, snide and undeniably was the loser in terms of how the audience responded.
Edwards had the additional advantage of being right. Full-on right, with a point Coulter could not address, only attempt to obfuscate.
Now what? Will Ann Coulter continue to get media exposure she has long since stopped deserving? Or will the hubbub from this little flare-up thrust Coulter back into the limelight?
My fingers are crossed that it will push Coulter back into nowheresville. The lack of any mention of this on Drudge Report seems telling. Drudge and Coulter are pals and he has repeatedly used his site to promote Coulter's books. Where's his link to this video? Could it be that he knows how bad it makes Coulter look?
Note: If you want to see a less polite smackdown of Coulter, do a search for Coulter's very brief telephone appearance as a guest on the Adam Carollo radio show. The way Carolla handles Coulter is a beautiful thing.
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Elizabeth Edwards, thank you for doing the one thing everybody else inexplicably avoids
[Read the article: Ann Coulter gets what she deserves]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Elizabeth Edwards was direct, forceful, and repeatedly made her point very clear. Ann Coulter was evasive, snide and undeniably was the loser in terms of how the audience responded.
Edwards had the additional advantage of being right. Full-on right, with a point Coulter could not address, only attempt to obfuscate.
Now what? Will Ann Coulter continue to get media exposure she has long since stopped deserving? Will the hubbub from this little flare-up thrust Coulter back into the limelight?
My fingers are crossed that it will push Coulter back into nowheresville. The lack of any mention of this on Drudge Report seems telling. Drudge and Coulter are pals and he has repeatedly used his site to promote Coulter's books. Where's his link to this video? Could it be that he knows how bad it makes Coulter look?
Note: If you want to see a less polite smackdown of Coulter, do a search for Coulter's very brief telephone appearance as a guest on the Adam Carollo radio show. The way Carolla handles Coulter is a beautiful thing.
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Garrison, you rock
[Read the article: The library fix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You articulated what I feel but couldn't say nearly as well. I love libraries. A lot of my friends think I'm nuts because I often want to pull over and stop to see libraries in other neighborhoods and towns. When I went to Hawaii, I wanted to visit the library more than I wanted to see Pearl Harbor.
I love the fact that there are public places where everybody is encouraged to (1) think and learn, and (2) be quiet! How many other public spaces can you think of that have these qualities?
I love the fact that the best-designed libraries are all about light, space, and a sense of peaceful organization and elegant structure?
I love the modern, big-window and steel-forms type libraries, and I also love to old-fashioned, dark-wood, large-table type libraries.
(Incidentally, old card catalog containers are some of the most beautiful wood furniture you will ever see.)
My favorite idea of a day-off leisure activity is to go for a long hike or bicycle ride through parks and other visually appealing sights, then to stop off at a library and go find things to read, flopping down in a comfy chair and just soaking up ideas and stories for a few hours. Then maybe afterward I'd go get some Japanese food with hot green tea...
Hanging out in a library to read and learn is like exactly the opposite of sitting home channel-surfing the TV. Being at a library makes me feel stimulated, with a promise of open possibilities in life, whereas watching TV makes me feel like I'm rotting, sitting there drooling and clicking as images are thrust at me by a never-ending stream of huckster salesman.
Long live libraries! May they always find public funding!