Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 158 Editor's Choice: 40
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The way this guy is carrying on...
[Read the article: I lost my engagement ring -- and secretly replaced it at Wal-Mart]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...you'd think she'd stuffed her engagement ring down some guy's jockstrap at Chippendale's.
Unless this woman has a history of extreme carelessness, the fiance is a passive-aggressive, grudge-toting weinie--and in any case, he seems way too enmeshed with his family; he doesn't understand that you do not break confidences with the person you're engaged to, as that is where your first loyalties now lie. If he can't forgive her for something that wasn't her fault, what chance will she have when something is her fault?
He should read Corinthians 13:4, especially the part about how love "bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." If he can't even endure something as unimportant as a ring lost in a lake, through no fault of his fiancee's, then he doesn't know a lot about love.
I lost a ring that my husband (then-fiance) had given me for my birthday, an estate ring that he searched high and low for after I described the kind of ring I like. I was devastated and justifiably guilt-ridden, and he was angry and upset -- and then he immediately started scouring around for a replacement, although I asked him not to. Fortunately, after a frantic search, I found it before he blew any more time or money trying to make up for my carelessness. (I was lucky, as there was no lake involved.)
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A coupla things...
[Read the article: San Franciscophobia]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Republicans have never done well managing the country's money--historically, the economy has almost always done better under Democrats. And the Republicans have been good at running up deficits since the Reagan years. They lost the right to the checkbook quite a while ago
Also, the Bushes don't have a "smart son," unless you're talking in relative terms. (Excuse the pun.)
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He could follow his conscience AND do his job...
[Read the article: Judge upholds pharmacist's termination]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To the guy who brought up conscience: he could have done what he was asked to do by his employer--refer the women to a different pharmacist--and still been true to his beliefs. Instead, his so-called "conscience" led him to treat these women with extreme disrespect and leave them with no care at all. That is not something a conscientious person would do.
And yes, if he fills Viagra prescriptions without checking that the man is married and with a child-bearing-age, non-contraception-using wife, then he is not being consistent to his religious beliefs. He's just being hostile to women, which, to me, seems to be the real story here.
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The family you want does exist...
[Read the article: My family gives me no respect]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...you're just not related to them.
Find people who love you and respect you and appreciate you, and do the same for them. Hopefully you already have people like this in your life; find a few more if you need to!!
You may be making the same mistake I made with my abusive family: you assume they know you better than you know yourself, and that they must have some rational basis in reality for their judgments. They don't. Their behavior, difficult as it may be to understand, has little or nothing to do with you. You know your worth. Hopefully you have friends who do also. They and you know best.
It took me a long time and a lot of therapy to "get over" my family. It can be done. Good luck to you -- and your disobedient dog, too!!
I hope this helps!
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Grand theft autowriting
[Read the article: Ann Coulter and plagiarism by the numbers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]According to the dictionary I wrote (okay, Webster wrote it, but why pick nits?), plagiarism is defined as: "1: a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work; 2: the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own."
No mention of word count anywhere in the definition.
I also love how her UPI syndicators are now looking into whether she's a plagiarist, presumably because such a notion would violate their journalistic ethics. So as far as UPI is concerned, sleaze, hatemongering, and serial lying--good; plagiarism--bad. Firing Ann Coulter over plagiarism would be like chiding Attila the Hun over his table manners.
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Wow, you know you should give up writing when...
[Read the article: Cool Jews]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...the big debate is whether your article is worse than one written by Ayelet Waldman!!
I agree -- this article was badly written, self-indulgent, self-aggrandizing, and pointless. And frankly, if anyone who was Irish, or Italian, or German, or Catholic, etc. tried to publish similar tripe, it would never make it into Salon.
Get over yourself, indeed. And get over your obsession with your own ethnic group, too. Here's a hint: Everybody has one!!
You say you're Jewish, we say what else is newish, get used to it.
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Around my house...
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...we call Jeannie Zelasko Jeannie's An Asshole. And since I've already sworn once, I won't tell you what we call Joe Buck.
Recently I watched a classic-sports rebroadcast of the final game of the 1969 World Series. What a pleasure!! The announcers called the plays crisply and succinctly, and filled in the gaps with some RELEVANT information and nice color. The only other sounds were the fall breezes blowing through Shea Stadium. All broadcasters should be FORCED to watch old films before they put one foot in the booth and the other in their mouths.
Nowadays we watch with the sound turned down. Even the car alarms in the street are less annoying than the Fox announcers, who seem to have two speeds: belabor the obvious until it's beaten and bloodied and begging for mercy, or miss the obvious completely.
Of course, that doesn't do anything to remedy the missed plays due to drunken camerawork, shoddy direction, replays that overlap live action, and endless whots of Fox "stars" in the stands.