Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 20 Editor's Choice: 1
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Powell has an ugly history. Does the My Lai cover-up ring a bell?
[Read the article: Will the real Colin Powell stand up?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Powell’s reputation was always a media creation. He is attractive and presents well, so people are easily taken in by him. But he has always been a careerist opportunist concerned only with his own advancement. His son Michael learned his nasty values at his father’s knees, and it shows in the way he ran the FCC.
Why does everyone forget that Colin Powell was a key player in the My Lai cover-up? (Maybe because the media never mention it?) He hasn’t changed. He has always done whatever the boss said, no matter how wrong, in order to please the boss and get ahead. His loyalty is to himself—and to those who could help his career. He just didn’t count on how the Cheney/Bush administration would chew him up and spit him out when he was no longer useful to them.
Sidney, you are trying to appeal to the honor of a man who clearly has none—and never did.
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Kansas Planned Parenthood
[Read the article: Roundup: Self magazine Photoshops fitness]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First the rightwing anti-choice organizations create controversy around Planned Parenthood--and then they demand a grand jury investigation because they say there's too much controversy around Planned Parenthood. THEY are the ones deliberately stirring up all the so-called controversy!
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These guys are not conservatives, even if that is the label they give their dictatorial radicalism.
[Read the article: The sad decline of Michael Mukasey]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Blumental writes: “While Mukasey espouses conservative views upholding an expansive interpretation of the executive . . . .”
One of the problems with the current radicals who call themselves conservatives is that the views they espouse are the exact opposite of principled conservative views. True conservatives have always been particularly suspicious of excessive executive power.
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You will find contentment when all of your mirrors
[Read the article: I can't stand losing my beauty as I age!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]turn into windows.
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Sometimes I am grateful for my hearing impairment.
[Read the article: The divine sound of silence]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I will be in a stootre with someone and he or she will comment on the music being played. "Do you know that song?" or "Do you like that song?"
I inevitably respond, "What song?"
Music in stores and elevators is never played loudly enough for me to even realize it is there unless I have my hearing aids in.
I seldom wear my hearing aids out in public--only for conversation, movies, TV, or classes (I teach). On those rare occasions when I do forget to take my hearing aids out before venturing into the wide world, I am appalled at the noise pollution you "hearies" have to live with. No wonder so many people are so short-tempered and on edge. I would be, too, if I had to listen to half of the noise that bombards you all the time, no matter where you go!
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I meant "store," of course, in my previous message. Bad correction attempt.
[Read the article: The divine sound of silence]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]An edit window would be nice.
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I also spend Christmas alone most years--gladly.
[Read the article: I'll be alone for Christmas -- merrily!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sometimes I get pressured into having Christmas dinner with others, but mostly I get to spend the day with my cats. I love it. We who are introverts need some time to ourselves. Enforced socializing with large groups of people is not our idea of fun or relaxation.
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Depression and/or ADD
[Read the article: Help! I'm committing professional suicide!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This person needs to see a counselor about the possibility of depression. Procrastination is a major symptom of it. Another possibility is ADD. Many people crash and burn their lives like this because they can't get their act together because of ADD. A trial prescription for ADD meds might be just what he needs.
ADD often leads to depression, because the ADD causes a person to put himself into a situation that creates serious problems, so that the consequence is situational depression.
I bet he also has problems in his personal life: always late to social get-togethers with friends; never keeps promises to loved ones; can't remember birthdays or anniversaries; can't get his act together about anything, so everyone thinks he is either a total space cadet--or that he is just a selfish prick. He probably has a string of failed relationships or a VERY long-suffering spouse.
A one-time "hotel" cure (real or metaphorical) won't work. He needs to find out whether he is depressed or has ADD--or both. I am betting both, with the depression the result of the harm his ADD is doing to his life.
The other possibility is that he really hates his job and feels totally stifled by it. He wants out, but is making too much money and has health insurance, so he can’t justify leaving it, especially with the precarious economy we are stuck with at the moment. His subconscious, however, doesn’t care about what’s practical. It will sabotage him to get what it wants.