Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 21 Editor's Choice: 1
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Another personal note
[Read the article: Condi Rice never looks back]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ah, Dr. Condoleezza Rice. I remember her well from my Stanford undergraduate days. Dr. Rice was Stanford’s Provost and dealt with the aftermath of Former University President Donald Kennedy’s indirect cost controversy. To put it succinctly, Dr. Rice was charged with eliminating $18 million dollars from the university budget over a 3-year period. She accomplished this feat by cutting funding to many minority programs which coupled with her political leanings earned her the distrust and disgust of the undergraduate community especially the black community.
During this time, I was taking a leadership course at Stanford and one of our assignments was to interview a community leader. I, in my naivete, announced that I was going to interview Dr. Rice. Yes, I was really that arrogant back then to think that I could just command an audience with the likes of Dr. Rice. Well, to everyone else’s surprise I did get my interview albeit under false pretenses but we won’t go into that in this forum. Anyway, Dr. Rice was pleasantly professional in her handling of my softball interview questions. She talked about her love of ice-skating (who knew) which she reluctantly gave up when it became clear to her that she would not be a top tier professional ice skater. She talked about her love of music just like the article mentioned. And it was all so pleasant and yet calculating in a creepy sort of way. I felt like she was sizing me up but for what exactly I did not know.
Years later, I literally ran into Condi at the Hewlett Foundation in Menlo Park. She was on the board and I was the Grants and IT Administrator at the time. I didn’t know that she was on the board when I applied for the job nor did I dare list her as a reference. But now that I think about it I always wondered how I got that job right out of school.
Dr. Rice has an intense personal drive that transcends her gender and race. As someone with a similar background (poor black kid from racist Louisiana) and a similar drive to succeed, I can’t say that I am surprised at what has transpired within the Bush administration. Just like her earlier days at Stanford, if you have a “dirty” job that needs to get done, Condi is definitely your go to person in that respect.
P.S.
Condi, if you get wind of this letter from one of your underlings, please don’t take it the wrong way. I don’t want to end up in Gitmo! j/k :)
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Impotent? Or are you just not aroused by your lover?
[Read the article: The fall of man]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I feel sorry for all the impotent men who freak out and head straight for a quick fix like Viagra or heaven forbid penile hydraulic surgery to get a steady erection. It seems like most men (and most women for that matter) are hell bent on treating penises like mechanical tools that are broken and need to be fixed. That is the wrong attitude to take towards your body. You are NOT a machine! You are a full human being with emotions that need to be taken into account within the sexual arena. You are not just a “tool” to get the job done.
I am not surprised that a lot of men are coming up flaccid with their ball-busting partners. Barring any medical problems, if you are coming up soft during that critical moment, you might want to question why you are not aroused for said woman instead of buying into the mentality that something is “wrong” with you that needs to be rectified immediately via pill or surgery. You need to listen to your penis because it is probably trying to tell you something important. Women have no problem listening to their vagina monologues. If a woman isn’t aroused, odds are she immediately thinks it is something YOU are not doing right. Whether it is lack of foreplay, romance or merely physical attraction, a woman’s vagina will let her know and she will listen. Men need to learn to do the same and stop beating themselves up over not being "rock hard" and rearing to go 24/7/52.
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I Am Torn
[Read the article: Healthy, my ass]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]because I am inherently attracted to rubenesque, voluptuous, ah hell lets get real, FAT WOMEN but I strive to eat healthy, exercise daily and even sleep well in order to lose weight and maintain a high degree of physical and mental health. As I sit here after finishing my three ounces of raw carrots, four ounces of broccoli, tomatoe and brown rice, I note that I am extremely attracted to women who look like Buffie the Body but I am disgusted with how they got that way. The hypocrisy is so damning to me because I love being healthy, feeling great and looking like a million bucks thanks to eating healthy and exercising but my attraction to and therefore implicit encouragement of unhealthy fat women flies in the face of reason itself. It makes me part of the obesity problem although I desperately wanted to believe I was part of the solution. Is this a bizarre case of deadly opposite attraction or what?
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More like the makings of the worst sports commentary ever!
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tim Duncan is boring and nobody outside of San Antonio cares about the Spurs? What game were you watching? Oh you were alluding to Tim Duncan’s clean-cut, hardworking persona not his b-ball skills. Maybe he needs to choke his coach out, beat his lover up, rape a white girl, do drugs, cut a rap album that goes nickel, get suspended from the league or just go to jail in the off-season to impress idiots like you. And we ALL hate Tony Parker? At least put some smiley faces after that line so that we might think you are kidding. Better yet just stop speaking for ALL people because frankly you suck at it.