Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 156 Editor's Choice: 40
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When I said that nowadays we watch with the sound turned down...
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...I was talking generally, not about last night, which we watched with the sound on but with a bottle of wine. Each.
Mets and Yankees games are often hostage to Fox, so we turn the sound down and listen to the radio then. Although frankly, with the likes of John "Can't Get Enough Of My Voice, Babe" Stirling and Suzyn "Master The Obvious With An Air Of Smug Congratulations" Waldman, that's not much of an improvement. The other day, Waldman was instructing us all as to how the manager doesn't like it so much when the pitcher walks the opposing pitcher. Ya learn something new every day!!
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Is Mr. Mason joking, or overcompensating for something?
[Read the article: I'm so mad at my ex I could explode!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mr Mason bloviates: "It is a fact of life that once the novelty wears off, us men seem to get to the stage when our wives no longer have any kind of sexually stimulative effect on us."
Sounds like somebody has a sad case of "say it about her before she says it about me."
My husband and I are in our mid-40s, and I think it's safe to say the "novelty" wore off for both of us a quite while ago. But I still can't get dressed in front of him without ending up late for work, and I still grab his relaxed-fit butt while he's bending over to empty the car of groceries. We have a great sex life, as do a lot of long-married people we know.
Perhaps if my husband were five and I were a spaceman toy, he'd have tossed me aside for lack of "novelty" by now. Fortunately, unlike Mr. Mason, we're both vibrant, highly sexual, funloving and just plain loving grown-ups, who are still thrilled to be married to each other.
Take heart, LW. Many men are NOT like Mr. Mason and your husband. (By the way, your last name isn't Mason, is it?) Look at it this way: one nice thing about being 45 is that it automatically weeds out all the middle-aged morons who looking for women a fraction of their own age.
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Psychotic?
[Read the article: Area man mistakes Onion story for reality]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The pro-abortion movement is "psychotic"? Doesn't that mean "unable to distinguish fantasy from reality"? As in, foaming at the mouth about obvious satire? Or believing contraception is the same as abortion? I was once engaged to someone I later chose not to marry. So the marriage was prevented. Does that mean I'm actually divorced?
"I know the average person is going to say I'm a religious wacko," he laments. I disagree. I'm sure below- and above-average people feel that way as well.
Another once-happy leftist who found religion and lost his mind.
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Hard to believe this is innocent
[Read the article: My husband is making me suspicious]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If it were just a few emails with colleagues, that would be one thing. But LW already knows that her husband went out of his way to track down an ex-girlfriend--whom he's now had considerable correspondence. And the emails to the other women make reference to conversations.
This seems like a guy who's restless and looking for something, or someone.
Does the LW know any of the women he's communicating with? Maybe she could make more of an effort to get to know his colleagues, and get a sense of what his relationship with them is. Are they just "work wives"? Or is there more to it? Is he reluctant to have her meet them?
My husband is good friends with several women at work, but I know them and we socialize with them, so I know there is nothing beyond friendship there. The LW needs to meet her husband's colleagues--or, if her husband resists that, find out why.
They also need to talk about the ex-girlfriend, who seems symptomatic of a larger problem. And they need to talk, period, probably to a counselor. Immediately.
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Criticizing the wrong thing
[Read the article: Men at work]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, the story featured a glut of "desperate houswives." But frankly, the bored, materialistic housewife with the rich husband is a stereotype precisely because these people do actually exist. And in some communities, like parts of Manhattan, Bevery Hills and the East End of Long Island, they exist in pretty large numbers. And frankly, the Times loves them!!
I think the real Times prejudice at work here is not that it thinks all women are pampered and neglected, but that the only people the reporter talked to were high-end contractors working for rich princesses and their hubbies. The upper and upper-upper demographics are the only ones the Times give a damn about, or even seems to realize exist.
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Even his "criticism" is phony...
[Read the article: About that mysterious Republican]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...as he claims the Republicans have become "just like the party they replaced." So... the Democrats were destroying environmental and other public-safety regulations, leading us into oil wars, running up humongous deficits to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest individuals and corporations in the country, underfunding their own education initiatives, letting industry CEOS and their lobbyists write legislation, declaring ideological wars at every turn, shortchanging our veterans, writing anti-consumer and pro-business prescription drug legislation, gutting the Constitution at every turn, ignoring homeland security issues like port and nuclear security, and appointing industry whores to head every cabinet position?
Damn--who knew?!? Nader was right--both parties are exactly the same!
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If relentless whoring on one side of the fence means that you actually prefer the other side...
[Read the article: Coulter: Bill Clinton is a "latent" homosexual]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...does that make Ann Coulter a closet liberal?
Or a closet sane person?
Or, from what I hear about her rather active sex life, a closet lesbian?
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Remember, these are the same people...
[Read the article: Coulter: Bill Clinton is a "latent" homosexual]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...who said Hillary Clinton was a lesbian having an affair with Vince Foster.
And these are the clowns who want to take over sex education.