Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 481 Editor's Choice: 17
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Emily...huh?
[Read the article: My boyfriend is checking out chicks while I'm standing right there!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What are you talking about. Those generalizations as I've seen them tend to be expressed either by fictional television character, or dumbass fratboys.
I've called my friends gay for not acting manly, but I was being ironic.
What are you on about. You haven't said one thing here that is grounded in reality.
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Amily
[Read the article: My boyfriend is checking out chicks while I'm standing right there!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ah. You were joking. My bad.
Carry on.
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Emily
[Read the article: My boyfriend is checking out chicks while I'm standing right there!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ah. You were joking. My bad.
Carry on.
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Emily
[Read the article: My boyfriend is checking out chicks while I'm standing right there!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No, I noticed I misspelled your name in the subject line and tried to correct it right after I hit the "publish" button. I corrected it, hit "publish" again, and hoped it didn't post twice.
Whoops.
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Do you think Mike Scherer likes Hillary Clinton?
[Read the article: What you missed while watching "Ask a Ninja"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hmmm. That's a tough one. Seriously, how about giving fair coverage to all the candidates next time instead of going on about how great Hillary is?
I will not vote for her if she gets the nomination and there is nothing she can say that will convince me otherwise. From looking at the polls, there are many others out there like me. You can help us out a bit by characterizing the other candidates fairly so we can make up our minds on who else is out there. Or we can just stay home.
"Modern progressive." Yeah, right.
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Heartbreaking.
[Read the article: I can't get home to see my mom before she dies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My heart goes out to you, friend. I don't know what to tell you except that anybody with a mother can understand what you must be going through. From the way you decribed her, your mother sounds like she does too. Allow yourself to mourn, but don't blame yourself for this.
Cary's thoughts on the matter were spot on and much more eloquent than my own.
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Sorry. The Times is right.
[Read the article: The New York Times misses the CNN/YouTube debate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, some of the questions were good, and it would have been nice to have the candidates actually answer them instead of resorting to the same canned soundbites they've been using since the beginning of their campaign, but it didn't work out that way.
Wishing it were otherwise isn't going to make it so. I agree that this format was a babystep in the right direction, but we aren't quite there yet.
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Relax
[Read the article: I've got a stupid racist ditty playing in my head]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your problem, and your reaction to it made me laugh. I think you are blowing this whole thing out of proportion. It doesn't sound like you are racist to me, just that your brain has was branded at a very young age. Have fun with the absurdity of the situation. Even if you tell someone about it, I think most reasonable people will understand. We've all got a few vestiges of our parents, friends, or neighbors prejudices stuck in us somewhere. The best we can do is recognize them for what they are, laugh, and get on with it.
On a related note, my brain will sometimes remind me that the Chinese think it's a good joke to put pee pee in my Coke. I caught myself humming this stupid little ditty one day, and came out and told my wife about it (she's Asian). She shared with me a few of the racist assumptions that were branded into her brain about other races (including whites) when she was a kid. We both had a pretty good laugh about it.
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Both of you are entitled to want you want out of a relationship
[Read the article: Are men spoiled rotten?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And if the other can't offer it, maybe it's time to split. I've personally experienced women doing this to me because I didn't make enough money. It hurts, but what are you gonna do? No use in getting bitter. No single sex holds the monopoly on selfishness.
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I'm surprised no one has posted this yet
[Read the article: My wife is terrible on the cellphone!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dump her. She's no good for you.
Heh. Just kidding.
Cell phones suck. Deal with it.
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My cellphone is my portable Tetris machine
[Read the article: My wife is terrible on the cellphone!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's really the best thing that's come out of that damned infernal machine. However, I recently dropped my phone mid-ring and now none of the sound works. No ring. Nothing. It still vibrates though. B
Best thing that's happened to me all year. It's so refreshing.
Now I can ignore all the inane phonecalls I get during the day with the excuse that my ringer is on the fritz and I didn't hear it. No more REAL conversations have to be interupted by that damn thing.
I love my lady, but she calls me at least 40 freaking times a day to talk about every boring trivial event in her life. Jeebus. I feel like I'm doing my boyfriendly duties pretending to listen to that nonsense when I'm at home. Why would I want to hear it during my own time? Sorry, baby. I just didn't hear my phone ring. And oh how I couldn't wait to hear all about that bitch at work you hate so much and the shoes you saw on sale. Golly gosh darn it.
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I...uh...agree with Newt
[Read the article: Newt goes off message]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Holy shit. I never thought I'd say that.
Just kidding. Actually, I agree (to a point) with core conservative beliefs about fiscal and personal responsibility. The problem is that is exactly the bullshit they feed their base to win elections. Once elected, all of that goes out the window.
So what should we make of he said? Nothing. Wait and see. It sounds like he's trying to position himself in the middle in anticipation of his run for the presidency. Let's see if he keeps it up. It's be very promising if he did. I've gotten really tired of this knee-jerk partisanship and the counterproductive rhetoric coming from the pundits on both sides.
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Traister never fails to disappoint...
[Read the article: Cupid's science]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...if you have given up on looking for quality reporting and good writing, that is. If you expect to be disappointed by Salon's standards, Traister will never fail to disappoint.
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Ok, it's obvious Anonymous is ignorant, but is this any better?
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]calgodot writes:
Why do women cheat? A deceptively simple question with a complex answer. Generally, women cheat because they find the man with whom they are partnered to be inadequate in some manner - an inattentive lover, an insufficient earner, an inadequate sharer: these are but a few of the more common reasons a woman may "cheat" on a man.
Really? That's it? Everytime a woman cheats it's because the man in the relationship is inadequate. Got it. Thanks.
Why is your bullshit generalization any better than his?
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The husband got a job, so the original agreement applies
[Read the article: My husband won't do his laundry]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why is this so hard? It seems pretty cut and dried to me.