Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 324 Editor's Choice: 8
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Baby Grumpus
[Read the article: The beast]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wasn't arguing with you. That was my point. You are entitled to think that gymnastics is a carnival side show. That it isn't a sport, that like someone else said, its comprable to ballet, etc. But trying to instigage some sort of fight between those who think gymnastics is a sport vs. those who don't is stupid. Which is what you were doing with the whole, Why is everyone buying into Sey's delusion and the fact that you needed to post 2 times on it. We get the point. Gymnastics is dumb.
Would you feel the same if Michael Phelps wrote this blog (he wouldn't because winning has most likely made him gracious.)
Granted, Gymnasts get scholarships to college based on their ability in their "sport", they go to the Olympics, get endorsement deals, etc., just like dogs and circus freaks. Oh wait...
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Re-Read the article
[Read the article: The beast]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I want to make a suggestion.
All of you who are so offended by Sey's article and have posted incredibly negative comments about her as a person, about how she must treat her children, etc., please re-read the blog post.
Because I know that at first, I took offense at what she said. Then, after perusing the 230-or so negative letters, I started getting irritated with the increasingly over the top attacks on Seys. That she wasn't an elite athelete at all. That she couldn't even manage to get a gold medal so who cares what she thinks. Basically, the sort of comments that prove her assertion that armchair fans suck. There are plenty of elite atheletes who never make it to the Olympics because of timing and injuries. And in gymnastics, its just cruel because the window of opportunity to compete in the Olympics is basically between 16 and 20. The folks who compete with each other on the elite level recognize and know each other and I'm sure that the ones Sey was competing with back in the 80s would put her in their class, even if the armchair fans here, who only watch these sports during the Olympics, don't know who she is.
I don't want to say I'm defending her; she starts out with this incredibly provocative and hurtful sentence and she does sound like a dick most of the time.
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Ahoy
[Read the article: 1,250,444 ways to please your man]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The girls in my office and I were laughing at how correct wise Chappelle.
I don't mind doing the first two things, and the 4th, but I'll be damned if after a session on my knees I'm fixing some mofo a goddamn sammich.
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I didn't know about this...
[Read the article: Girl crush: Julia Child]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]so it is news to me. And I grew up watching Julia Child on Saturday mornings on PBS (along with Yan Can Cook and the Frugal Gourmet.)When my parents were asleep on Sunday mornings, I would whip up crepes and I ALWAYS read the recipe aloud while I was cooking, using a combination of her voice and the swedish chef. My father caught me once; needless to say, he thought I was a freak. He wasn't the most imaginative man.
But I didn't know she was an agent, or if I did, it didn't stick in my over loaded on pop trivia brain.
What makes this "news" however, is the fact that they government is releasing the files on what she actually did as an agent, or at least thats what I'm getting from the article.
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The Howl
[Read the article: Our cupboard was bare]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"My children will never have to eat at soup kitchen" Dear lord, woman, do you want to call down the wrath of the gods with that little comment?
I suppose it must be nice being prescient, and knowing the future with the kind of certainty of living 29 years on this earth. You know, I betcha plenty of rich folks in the 20s felt the same way as you do, drinking bathtub liquor with oodles of cash in the bank...and then the crash. Next thing you know, they are living in shanty towns in Central Park and their children are starving to death.
I'm not saying that this WILL occur, that some economic cataclysm will turn the vast majority of us into paupers, but anyone who studies their history knows bad shit happens, and the little people can plan, keep their money in jars under the their house or invested in stocks or in diamonds and poof...its gone. Bad shit happens and in my 32 years on this planet, I've learned to not to tempt fate by starting any sentence with the word "I would never or my family would never..." because its arrogant and invites hubris. Because if your kids were starving I hope to god you would get your ass to the damn soup kitchen and feed those kids.
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Raphella
[Read the article: Our cupboard was bare]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think your figuring is wrong; she paid that amount in child care. because it was the summer. You know, summer, when kids aren't in school? Which means the kids would have to do a full day somewhere, as opposed to maybe an hour a day between when Mommy gets off from work and they get out of school. And because she has a mildly autistic child, that probably costs more than a "normal" kid.
I know nothing about the cost of child care, but I do know that my boss who is married was really worried about finding something to do with his 7 year old for the summer. Because he moved down here for a better job, he doesn't have any family to watch the child, and they were already in the hole due to a series of unfortunate events (the house they owned flooded, so they had to fix the water damage before they could sell it which without the crappy economy probably would have been difficult for them to recoup their losses on the house)
I don't think there are really enough details in this essay to call bullshit. But whatever. People are entitled to their opinion.