Letters to the Editor
mattielisbon
Published Letters: 86 Editor's Choice: 17
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Wow
[Read the article: Paris isn't free -- and neither are we]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Garry:
Fuelled and Realised are both acceptable spellings for those words, so no need to insult people over it.
Okay, back on topic:
What a farce this all is. I live in the area and was thus subject to the drone of helicopters beginning at an ungodly early hour. I have sympathy for Ms. Hilton insofar as I have sympathy for anyone who goes to jail. I think the judge is being an ass but a lot of judges are asses and a lot of folks in questionable mental and physical health go to jail and do their time without mercy from the likes of Sheriff Baca.
Ms. Hilton has grown up in such rarified air that she hasn't been required to grow the same outer "skin" nor inner strength to muster in uncomfortable (let alone horrible) situations. It's a sad situation. I'd love to send her some books to read while she's in there (longer than is really fair considering what normally happens). I hope during her hour out of solitary she is able to meet some other folks in there who are just as freaked or surprised or just depressed as hell to find themselves in there - good people she can talk to. She might learn a thing or two about the rest of the world.
This woman doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. She's a "christian" and the jail is the lion. And we're the decadent spectators who can't tear our eyes away. Scary.
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We hate her for her freedoms?
[Read the article: Paris isn't free -- and neither are we]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]J.C., I don't hate Paris Hilton "for her sexual freedom". Her "sexual freedom" is another word for lack of self respect, and I feel badly that she thinks she has to have boring sex (she answers the phone or something in the middle of it, doesn't she?) with some asshole who would tape and distribute it, but I'm certainly NOT jealous of her sexual freedom.
I'm free to have sex with whoever I want to also.
I don't "hate" Paris Hilton. What I hate is what Heather and Rebecca are talking about - that our society is at a point where someone completely devoid of any native talent (or not displaying any) and completely divorced from the reality that most of us live every day, and lacking any drive to add one positive thing to the world nor any glimmer of recognition that the rest of us exist, can capture our attention while things that really matter (Romney thinks the inspectors weren't in Iraq? Cheney directed the wiretapping thing? Our judiciary is being stacked with neocon fundamentalists who threaten our voting rights? People are dying by the millions in Africa?) go ignored.
Paris Hilton is a symptom of the death of any real news media in the U.S., a seriously ominous sign regarding the state of our Democracy at its core. The rich/poor thing is interesting, but people aren't using this as a launching point to improve the situation (why not solve the deplorable conditions instead of avoiding putting "soft" rich people in there?).
It's a frightening symptom of the deteriorating state of discourse, knowledge, and engagement in things that really matter to our way of life. It doesn't portend well for the election next year that the lies and misrepresentations of our would-be leaders go unchallenged and lives around the planet go unsaved while we jaw on about the "plight" this poor, foolish woman. Will we be voting for the best media image next November, or the best candidate, and how will we know?
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I must be missing something
[Read the article: Why won't my boyfriend introduce me to his daughters?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but Cary only used the word "like" because he was mocking his conversation with his friend on the phone. He doesn't normally use the word "like". Get over it.
Seriously, after two years it's not just "let it go" - the guy needs to at the very least give a freaking reason why he doesn't want to introduce her to the kids.
In an adult relationship, it's perfectly acceptable to say "well, they're young and I don't want them to be confused" or "they're nasty teenagers, let them grow up a little" or whatever. Any acceptable reason (i.e., non-threatening to the relationship) should be easy to discuss between two grown ups who care about one another and have an honest relationship.
"You're too old and I'm embarrassed!" or "I don't know if this is permanent" or "I'm totally full of shit and I've been boinking my ex-fiancee and my wife all this time" or "There are no daughters and I'm stealing all your money" and whatever other reasons people are speculating about here are less obviously stuff one would discuss, and more obviously reasons to dump this a-hole before he really fucks her up.
So, in other words, either it's something he can talk about, and in that case he should because this is a mature loving relationship, correct?
Or it's something he can't talk about, and in that case it's not a mature loving relationship but one that is either not all it's cracked up to be or worse, based on lies, and needs to end.
The ultimatim isn't "introduce me or I'm gone" but "give me an honest decent reason why not or I'm gone". Being a chickenshit is not an honest decent reason, by the way.
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I think it's funny
[Read the article: So, a pig walks into a bar ...]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and apropos.
It's not saying all men are pigs, but in a bar full of guys you don't know, you're safer assuming they are, correct?
And note the commercial ends with the word "Evolve" followed by "Use a condom every time". I think it's a great message.
It's not just the rubber in his pocket that shows he's evolved. Any piggy can show up at the market and buy a condom. He transformed into someone we assume IS evolved, in many ways other than what he now has in his pocket. No, the other thing.