Letters to the Editor
sunny miller
Published Letters: 107 Editor's Choice: 3
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Stereotypes
[Read the article: Is thyroid disease the new hysteria?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's no more hypothyroidism than it is space aliens from Alpha Centauri causing her to be heavier than she wants. It's just a way of shifting the blame, and finding a new (hopeless) trend to follow. It won't make her thin anymore than Optifast did, or the Best Life diet or running or having Rosie the personal chef.
-- Laurel962
This is why doctors are skeptical of hypothyroidism when overweight women come to them needing treatment. They view hypothyroidism as an excuse almost as much as the general population. It took my mother and sister years to get diagnosed with thyroid disease because no one thought to test for it until they demanded it.
With the huge amounts of money Oprah has spent trying to lose weight, don't you think it is conceivable that after all that effort her thyroid condition could have been thwarting her weight loss? I notice she didn't mention taking any medication. Perhaps meds would help? I'm not saying it would be a magic cure, but with medication, my mother and sister were both able to lose weight with diet and exercise wheras before they could not.
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Chill out, King of Chill
[Read the article: "American Gangster"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and speak for yourself. Crowe's talent and charisma are almost chiche by now, they are so obvious. He can play anything not just thugs. Have you seen "Cinderella Man"? The humility and tenderness he displayed in that role could break your heart. Crowe as Jeffrey Wigand was beautifully nuanced.
But it's his face I go to see. Actors these days seem incapable of acting with their faces, but Crowe has mastered the art. What other actor do you know of who can seem an innocent boy in one instance and a ravening satyr the next? Behold the scene in "Gladiator" when Commodus is taunting Maximus with descriptions of how his family died. The subtle and fleeting but unmistakable look of excruciating pain for himself mixed with compassion for his family was a brave choice for an actor-most would evince a cartoonish furrowed brow vengeful rage. That singular moment is probably the reason producer Douglas Wick, who, upon accepting the best picture Oscar for “Gladiator,” thanked Russell Crowe, adding, “You filled a whole arena with the force of your face.”
Russell Crowe's face-one of the best of many reasons to go see "American Gangster",Ms. Zacharek's disdain notwithstanding.
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Did the Feds have a warrant?
[Read the article: Report: Spitzer caught on federal wiretap]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If not, and they try to prosecute Spitzer, we may finally get adjudication on whether the Feds should be violating the 4th Amendmant on behalf of the Republican political blackmail racket.
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Lady, it's worse than you think
[Read the article: The strange case of midnight renegade oleander gentrification camouflage]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From Wiki:
Oleander is one of the most poisonous plants and contains numerous toxic compounds, many of which can be deadly to people, especially young children. The toxicity of Oleander is considered extremely high and it has been reported that in some cases only a small amount had lethal or near lethal effects
This was a hostile act. Rip those suckers up and dare her to do anything about it.
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The author of this tome seems to have left out one very important word: COINTELPRO.
[Read the article: Through a bong, darkly]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]COINTELPRO, while promoting, financing, encouraging, co-opting and otherwise lifting up the shallow, cruel, consumerist, and ineffective sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll "counterculture", were systematically destroying the real agents of change, the hard working and committed New Left revolutionaries. Leaving out this aspect of the "60's" renders this book and all it's assertions entirely irrelavent.
DeGroot is doing what most ordinary folk do, and are meant to do, but as an "historian" he should know better: conflating the cultural with the political elements of the '60's. He charges a cultural movement with failing to achieve political goals The amorphous mass of mayhem loving youth one associates with the "counterculture" were more interested in 'tuning out'of the sytem, not fixing, changing, or overturning it.
Degroot also seems also to have left out the series of ruthless murders of people who could have led the revolutionary change he rightly laments as being a myth.
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Thank you, Glenn
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For saying, or at least very strongly implying, what should be pounded into the craniums of these war whores: Drezner, McArdle, and every other war cheerleader in the "news" media are complicit in war crimes and should be held accountable, to the fullest extent possible.
Of course they are lashing out like wild animals-deep down, they know you are right.
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The thing that kills me
[Read the article: David Brooks' fictitious defense of his industry's behavior]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, a lot of things kill me about MSM political coverage, but right now I'm just bowled over by the unmitigated gall of the infotainment pundits to dare suggest that voters are not bitter. Of course they are not bitter, sitting up there in their plush corner offices getting their shoes shined by a bitter untouchable.
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It is so patently obvious
[Read the article: David Brooks' fictitious defense of his industry's behavior]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why "journalists" and/or infotainment pundits refuse to address issues, and instead focus almost exlusively on "character issues" and petty attacks based on personality. They cannot possibly discuss issues in an honest, forthright manner because if they did, every Republican everywhere would be swept from office on a wave of revulsion. These attacks by the GOP enabling MSM upon Democratic politicians are the only reason there are any Republicans in office at all. Corporate America, inclucing media giants, depend on the GOP's slavish devotion to anything corporations want. Media figures of any stripe quickly learn that their jobs are on the line if they deviate from the company line.
Some of them like the petty gossip mongering and do it gleefully, some of them loathe it but go along to keep their jobs. It's as simple as that.