Letters to the Editor
Anne in NYC
Published Letters: 342 Editor's Choice: 38
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More background would be appreciated
[Read the article: My interview with murderer Hans Reiser]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not living in the Bay Area and not being a huge 48 Hours fan I’m not at all familiar with this case. Perhaps it has made all the talk shows and all the glossy news magazines have covered it so that it seems like common knowledge – but if you’re not a Nancy Grace fan you really can avoid these sorts of cases and still be well informed.
From that perspective this character study left a lot to be desired. I think this would have been a much, much stronger article had it been more in-depth. I think Salon makes this mistake a lot – they assume everyone already knows the details so they jump right into the finer points.
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Can’t we just mock the boys too?
[Read the article: Sex ed expert of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Like other posters I wonder if these boys were tricked too. But honestly – in this day and age NO boy or man should be hearing ‘but, I’m on the pill’ and feel free to bareback it. Just like no women should hear, ‘but I had a vasectomy’ and take the risk. IMO all these kids (and at least one man) are dumb, reckless and lazy (I expect them all to be on the public dole). They should be used as a cautionary tale.
Of course – would any of them have been this dumb if they’d had a proper sex-ed class?
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But NYC is very safe
[Read the article: There's no rape in Williamsburg]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I’ve also never had a problem out and about late and tipsy in Brooklyn. NYC really is a very safe city and pockets of Brooklyn really are some of the safer places in the city. The vast majority of women here don’t have violent sexual experiences. Certainly there are crime statistics that back this up? This isn’t some question we can never know the answer to.
I find it hypocritical that everyone freaks when SM said she hadn’t been raped because she was ‘smart’ when the question from Lizz was about how her dumb behavior could lead to rape. You can’t have it both ways. Lizz was very much a part of this messed up conversation.
And this cartoon isn’t at all funny.
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Bacon - $1 a slice
[Read the article: A wonderful, magical animal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That’s how much I pay for my small farm, heritage breed local pork. But it’s seriously the best bacon ever. Forget that too thin, too fatty stuff that tastes like fake smoke. I’d way rather have two slices of perfect bacon then twice as much of the grocery store stuff. And since the drippings aren’t crazy salty and smoky I always save it to use in other dishes.
A couple of weeks ago I paid $30 for two thick cut pork chops. No kidding it’s expensive but they were great. It made all other pork seem like cardboard slabs. My pork vendor also sells chickens and rabbits – those are less expensive and really nice. The chicken is so much nicer then the stuff available at my grocer store (even their ‘natural’ selection) I really can’t see myself going back. Factory farm meat is really out of the question when you’ve tasted what it’s supposed to be like. And I don’t even have the most refined pallet – it’s just that dramatic.
As far as the pigs death is concerned? I have to confess it doesn’t bother me in the least. I’m cool killing animals for food so long as they’re raised in a decent way. I was a PETA member – I’ve seen all the films, read all the literature and gone to all the protests. No one here can tell me anything I haven’t heard and seen over and over. I eat lots of tofu and my TVP chili is fantastic but I have zero interest in converting to a full vegetarian diet. To hear people rail against this brand of decency and moderation seems crazed. Don’t forget – these wonderful, magical animals would never have been breed in the first place and would soon go extinct if it wasn’t for people like me looking to eat them.
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No vaccines?
[Read the article: Amanda Peet gets her shot on ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What a bunch of crazy hippies! It should be a crime not to vaccinate your kids. It actually makes me a little paranoid that there are so many upper-middle class kids who are potentially passing these diseases around. These letters have set me up to be one of those insane parents who won’t let anyone near their pre-vaccinated newborn. I hope that ‘concerned mom’ has told her unvaccinated daughter not to go anywhere near a newborn for the rest of her life. Can you imagine setting up your kid to be a thphoid Mary like that? Craziness.
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@ chicago2
[Read the article: Amanda Peet gets her shot on ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Typhoid Mary never got sick either. But she was still a public health hazard. As others have pointed out – vaccines aren’t to protect the individual but to irradiate the diseases we’re talking about. With all the ‘research’ you’ve done I’m really shocked you don’t have a better handle on that.
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"You don't feel like it, but you do it for him"
[Read the article: "You don't feel like it, but you do it for him"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I often have sex with my husband when I’m not really feeling it – and I know damn well that’s not rape.
I think this is an interesting subject to get into – but you can’t just throw out a few confused quotes and do it justice.
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@ Mama Blaise
[Read the article: Amanda Peet gets her shot on ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The diseases we’re talking about move in waves. If, for the sake of conversation, there was a big measles outbreak in 1900 the survivors of that out break are basically ‘vaccinated’ – but 50 years down the road that ‘vaccinated’ population has died off and been replaced by a young population that is ripe for infection. So the declines you’re seeing are part of the normal cycle of these diseases. The fact that these vaccines came along in a period of decline means nothing.
We can’t let ourselves get lazy when it comes to keeping these diseases at bay. It’s when we start feeling like we’ve won the fight, and people stop getting vaccinated, that we can expect more outbreaks. Make sense?