Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 3
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they don't know the story
[Read the article: All quiet on the gay western front]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They don't know the story yet, but when the wingnut dementalists find out that one of the cowboys get beat to death for being gay, they will be in full support of the movie...wages of sin and all that
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Family of 4 or 5 or 3
[Read the article: I don't want more kids but my wonderful husband does]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Odd how the Reluctant Mommy and Cary and all of the respondents left out the twins.
I hope she will carry the pregnancy to term, deliver and keep the baby. She may or may not try Cary's advice regarding a contract making her husband the primary caregiver for the baby. I hope he will take on as much as possible, as he will be capable of doing more than either he or she may currently believe.
My point about remembering the twins is this: they are part of the current family and will be part of the family of five. They have lived the last eight years - the last two especially - seeing him as Daddy. If they see this child as essentially tying their lives to this loving, giving man in a real genetic sense, then this baby could have three men loving it and willing to help raise it from the start. Assuming they will be around for the next five years, until they leave the nest for good they could help get this kid raised to the point of kindergarten. Along the way there are lots of teachable moments that can help them become better people - more loving men - than their biological father was/is.
Reluctant Mommy needs to think about possible outcomes for all of the people in the family, not just herself. Sorry that fact upsets some people but that's what marriage and parenthood entails.
Let me quickly spell out the worst-case scenario I could forsee: Abort; Daddy resents Mommy for showing him to be a sucker for loving her and helping her to raise another (horrible) man's children; twins see that Daddy is really just a motherfucker not important enough to create a family with; twins grow up to be men like their biofather, with problems squared so Mommy will have four times the heartache and for the rest of her life because you can't divorce your kids; Daddy divorces Mommy sooner or later.
But at least Mommy gets to pursue her dream of being a ballerina dancing for royalty. Or whatever.
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Mere irony, or a deeper truth?
[Read the article: Killing "Bubba" from the skies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As a Northerner (South Dakota) I thought the term Bubba was Southern slang meaning brother. So seeing it applied to an enemy combatant was startling.
Is the Air Force still racially and regionally balanced with regard to its personnel, or has it also slid into a definitely Southern majority?
Did the term Bubba arise from some Southerner who remembered the chanted cant of his Xtian indoctrination "all men are brothers, love one another" and decided that it should apply to even his Islamist enemies?