Letters to the Editor
Electro Robot
Published Letters: 1110 Editor's Choice: 9
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yes of course
[Read the article: Your very own climate change Victory Garden]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your patch of herbs is going to save the world. Keep sucking up the resources and calling yourselves GREEN. That clearly is the answer. And as to 'mine'? Yes it's not mine, it's YOURS obviously. Please please grace our farms with your water because we'd really like to offer you vegetables to eat.
did you get that? Vegetables. not golf courses. thank you.
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But even your knockoff is made by slave labor
[Read the article: Your handbag is hysterical!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How do you live with yourselves?
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Word to da Wize
[Read the article: Desperately unhappy in the top Ivy League school]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Kick back, Chill out, Blaze up, Embrace the Slack
We'll pry you lose from the Lay-Z-Boy when we need the space. Remember, Apathy is the new excellence.
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Obama will win by eleventy billion percent
[Read the article: The epic battle for Pennsylvania]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He will win by such a large margin that mankind will make him President of the Solar System for Life.
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Desigirl
[Read the article: Your very own climate change Victory Garden]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe you're in the wrong zone. What zone are you in? I'm 7+/8 more or less not counting the 500 year drought we have. If I were to 'grow' something I would lose my water hookup and get fined $2500. My county even wants to put meters on wells that homeowners use to get water up out of their own ground.
See the problem is that water usage, is not, no matter how many PSAs they throw up on the tv, a personal problem. It's a regional problem, always is. Look at LA - it gets its water from hundreds of miles away in the mountains where the people there can't even legally get access to the water that runs through or under their property.
Personal gardens are simply not an efficient use of what water people have.
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Lynx
[Read the article: Your handbag is hysterical!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are precious. Don't ever lose that childlike wonder.
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Grey water?
[Read the article: Your very own climate change Victory Garden]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well if you're hooked up to city water the grey water goes back into the sewer system. If it's not raining then rain barrels are besides the point. The soil is largely hydraulic clay so if you want to sink your own well you can count on that being fairly expensive. Not as expensive as blasting but still about 300ft is the norm.
Also, in the SE you have to appreciate some of the oddest water use laws in the country. Water that's running over ground you're generally not allowed to redirect or disturb. So when it does rain, and your property floods, well it sucks to be you.
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Yes but reassessment is a be-otch
[Read the article: Housing market refuses to stabilize]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My house is now assessed based on an UNREALIZED value 35% higher than what I paid for it. And it will be 8 years before the next reassessment even if the market dropped 10%/year or more. Now granted my market hasn't really suffered, yet. So we assume that by the next reassessment the market will be, at worst, about where it is now. None the less, the price equation is only part of the problem. The other part of the problem is all your local and county tax entities that floated billion dollar bonds for every project under the sun based on insane homeowner appreciation projections. Now when those bonds have to be serviced, what are they going to do? Emergency tax increases that's what.
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Then you need to ride the 7 train in Flushing Queens, NYC
[Read the article: Strangers on a train ... under arrest?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Because the old ladies who dash into the train holding their umbrellas like a lance, the crackheads, the people who had scotch and fried onions for breakfast, the preachers and the rest of the stoners and losers, well they just come with the scenery. I have a female relative who either is insane or just acts insane and she rides the train growling at people and talking to herself. The fact that she's a well dressed attorney is just more disconcerting.
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Carter is as Carter does
[Read the article: When my finger was on the button for Israel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I always get a laugh out of people when they chant "He's a better ex president than president" which is a little like saying "Bone cancer is better than being eaten by a shark". Look the fact is that Carter didn't achieve anything. He speaks for no one but Hamas and the BBC. He's a gadlfy, always has been.
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Earth day is the cute furry puppy of holidays
[Read the article: Let's dump "Earth Day"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No one ever much cares if some slimy toxic blind prawn goes extinct. But polar bears are the furry remorseless sharks of the great white north. Where would the damn penguins be w/o Morgan Freeman? Yeah Earth Day is fine. As long as you don't start throwing people into the volcano to appease your new God.
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I know someone with fully functional Y2K bunker
[Read the article: The oil seesaw]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He might let you have it cheap. But you have to provide your own anti-zombie gear. Braaaaaiiiinnnnnnsssssss !
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You don't have
[Read the article: It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's Abortion Man!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A Ray Carruth sense of humor, do you?
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I deny gravity and fire
[Read the article: When my finger was on the button for Israel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I cast you into hell with my Jew magic!
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The proper use of a cell phone during an assault
[Read the article: Ladies, fight rape with ankle bracelets]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is to smash the motherfucker's face with it. This is probably the greatest selling point of ruggedized Nextel phones that they never mention in the ads. They have those stubby antennas too which are great for plunging into an eye.
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I expect that whatever happens
[Read the article: What to expect when you're expecting (primary results)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Salonotrons, KOSkids and other unmedicated shitheads will declare something or other a great and glorious victory. Or it was stolen. Or it's Israel's fault. And someone's best friend is black.
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I'm sure it doesn't matter
[Read the article: Obama rules the Pennsylvania airwaves]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]None of this is reality based, it's spin based. Other than loons and junkies no one is really really paying attention.
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I do hope there are voting irregularities from both sides.
[Read the article: What to expect when you're expecting (primary results)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It will amuse me to see you scream for each other's heads.
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I'm sorry I was busy exsanguinating goyishe kindern for my blood matzah
[Read the article: When my finger was on the button for Israel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now I'm back. Where was I? Oh yes. I highly recommend David Meir-Levi's "History Upside Down, The Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression"
You can get it from Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/History-Upside-Down-Palestinian-Agression/dp/1594031924/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208912202&sr=8-1
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Environmentalism is like obesity
[Read the article: Let's dump "Earth Day"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They are both diseases of affluence. When we can afford gourmet food for our dogs and $17 vinegar at Whole Foods, we have a broader horizon of other remote broken things to fix. But I for one will never be the person to deny a newly lower middle class Indian family their opportunity to own a car no matter how much it pollutes.