Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 84 Editor's Choice: 16
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Californication
[Read the article: TV Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is the funniest show I've seen in . . . forever. Raunchy and gross, and fantastic. Honestly I had to watch Hell-A Woman a couple of times because I missed stuff due to loud laughter - my own.
I described the episode to a friend of mine. For some reason, he got extremely turned on. Must've been the whole "lunch meat" discussion.
David Duchovny's delivery is perfect for this character's cynically surprised view of the world.
Thank goodness for cable . . .
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To be fair
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Olbermann isn't a "talk show" and doesn't have "guests", at least not guests that can be predicted a couple days before. His guests depend on what happens in the political/public realm sometimes that day.
It would be great to see Keith listed here, but it would be difficult to describe the upcoming show given the relatively impromptu nature of his format.
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Timbuktom - not good advice
[Read the article: Lately I've been kissing women I'm not married to]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]See, "try it" is really dangerous. Following alcohol induced lust "for the fuck of it" is likely only to cause trouble.
What will he "discover"? Perhaps that this strange is, well, different than his wife. Maybe better in one way or another, or maybe just the strangeness makes it better.
Maybe that it's more exciting than sex with his wife of untold number of years, the woman who squeezed those kids out in his presence, the particular set of stretchmarks or sags with which he's familiar. Maybe she tastes like peaches, and his wife doesn't taste like anything at all anymore.
Would it really be a good idea for him to experience that, and "then decide"? Do you honestly think he would be able to rationally weigh the 20 years of marriage, the devotion, the friendship, the trust, the shared parenting, against the wonders of discovering all that strange out there?
Once it's done it can't be undone. What if these other women fall in love with him? What if he falls for one of them - and he wouldn't have done that if he hadn't allowed himself to get that close?
Tasting that bit of honey could end up destroying an otherwise workable marriage, not because the marriage was doomed anyway, but because he removed part of the foundation of the marriage, which is the daily choice to remain faithful in spite of all that lovely pussy out there, not only out of devotion but out of the knowledge that the price for it is too high.
Think what you'd be losing, man. And for what?
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Dear Anonymous who is cheating
[Read the article: Lately I've been kissing women I'm not married to]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't get it. If you need to have sex with this other woman so badly that everything else goes out the window, why stay married to the other woman?
It doesn't feel the teensiest selfish and self-indulgent to try to have both?
If this other woman is worth everything, is she not worth giving up the other one?
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Wow, Parson, were you frightened by a feminist at some point?
[Read the article: Lately I've been kissing women I'm not married to]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sheesh. Yeah, sometimes when you fuck around on your spouse, you end up divorced, and usually the mom gets the kids barring serious parenting flaws.
And if you scare the shit out of her with your ranting, yeah, she may call the police. My ex screamed in my face that I was Evil! EVIL!!! because I wouldn't let him live in the guest room - I was paying the mortgage, he contributed nothing, and he was fucking/in love with another woman (if you can call 19 years old a "woman"), and he used my SON to gain entrance into the house and then berate me for not allowing him to live there.
I locked the bedroom door on him and called a friend, scared out of my wits as he pounded on the locked door and screamed. I should have called the police. Apparently your ex-wife did.
Perhaps it's not that she's a feminist prig, Parson. Maybe she's just a woman you scared with your insane ramblings. People call the police when they fear for their safety.
And maybe you're just angry you couldn't get away with fucking around behind your wife's back, and you blame her for all the consequences because the "bitch" couldn't handle the fact your penis was too manly for one woman.
Or maybe she kissed someone else, and you ended up divorced, but she doesn't seem to be suffering enough for her "sins".
It's hard to tell with you Parson.
The LW actually seems to want to stay married to his lovely wife, who apparently has done nothing to deserve this sort of vitriole from you. And neither have those of us who warn of the real consequences of destroying trust within a marriage.
Try yoga or camomile, guy. Women aren't that scary. Marriage isn't prison, and doing what it takes to remain faithful and maintain trust in a marriage isn't a shackle, but a choice. You are free not to choose it, but be prepared to live with the consequences.
I know there are men out there that understand all this. But I don't seem to be meeting any of them.