Letters to the Editor
budhaboy
Published Letters: 30 Editor's Choice: 2
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when I was 17...
[Read the article: The endless, meaningless blather from the Washington establishment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here](back in '83) I moved out, and into a low-rent neighborhood to be cool and get an education (college, whatever). On the corner of my block was spray-painted by the anarchist/punks of the day the following:
be silent.
consume.
die.
I've obviously never forgotten it, and at the time, i was into the fasion of it, never actually become quite that cynical. I was convinced that perhaps when Nixon was in office, there was a need for such things, but ever since watergate, it just wasn't so... you had to actively search for changes in nuance that smacked of hard-core hypocracy. Now my faith in this was rattled a bit with Iran-Contra, but even still... it was such small potatos... they funneled what, $20M? and they had to keep it under wraps, and the president almost went down over it? Clearly the system still worked.
Crap like you've outlined... this entire war... I think that at 40 I've finally become cynical enough to believe that 'the machine' really does exist and have a hidden agenda.
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man
[Read the article: The science of strippers' tips]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you are such an idiot, It's a wonder I waste my time reading your crap at all.
Why in the world would you give a crap about the reason a study was done? Because it offends you? I'm sure a lot of Nazis hated 'studies' that showed Jews weren't inferior as well... Don't attack the study because you don't like the results, attack the study because of what it shows, or suggests.
Some examples:
It's idiotic for the researcher to suggest strippers time thier nights to their cycle.
What, specifically is the stimuli that causes men to give greater tips? Is it the smell? the look on a woman's face, what?
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umm... pop culture, duh...
[Read the article: "30 Reasons Girls Should Call It a Night"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They tried to make me go to rehab, I said, "No, no, no"
Yes, I've been black but when I come back you'll know, know, know
I ain't got the time and if my daddy thinks I'm fine
He's tried to make me go to rehab, I won’t go, go, go
What's interesting is having come of age in the early eighties, I witnessed pop-culture drive men/boys to wretched excess... Sure the women went along for the ride, but it was mostly about the boys. For some reason I don't really recall their being an 'equal' opportunity for highlighting drug use (with Janic Joplin the notable exception... but then again all sweeping statements have exceptions). But in the last year or so I've noted:
Medow Soprano scoring meth, Cleopatra (from Rome) getting hapitually wasted... Octavia (again from Rome) getting wasted, mostly with her friends.
The only boys that spring to mind getting wasted, are non-powerful, secondary characters who are clearly stamped 'stoner', not 'cool'.
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Why Apple sucks (IMHO)...
[Read the article: Once and for all, proof that Macs are cheaper than PCs]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Apple is a hardware company, not a software company. Tragically, people 'use' software, and the hardware is irrelevant.
Examples:
1) I bought my four year old a mac Mini core solo for his birthday when they first came out. He loved it as he'd been using an old G3 and the games he favored ran pitifully slow. Unfortunately, a game he wanted to use, no longer ran with the intel achitecture... but since the disk was MacWin, and I had an old copy of XP laying about I installed bootcamp, and the windows version worked wonderfully... until it hit a brick wall with some goofy problem with the video card they put in it not being entirely compatible with XP (this has actually been a recuring problem).
2) I recently bought him a brand new game, featuring a pixar created rat. When I tried to get it to run in Mac, the installer said, "you aren't using a core duo... this machine isn't capable of playing the game..." and it REFUSED to install. I rebooted in Windows, and installed the game it seems to be working flawlessly (although the goofy vidcard problem has yet to rear it's ugly head).
The two point I site underscore why apple suck: THEY WANT YOU TO BUY NEW HARDWARE... Sure they give you fancy softare to run on it, and it works well at first, but if you want to keep the machine for a few years, because, well it's wastefull to encourage them to keep making more when there isn't a realistic need to do so... you're out of luck, as Apple, by it's nature wants you to consume more of its products reguardless of whether or not you need or want more.
For Christmas this year, I'm getting the boy a wintel/linux box. !@#4 apple.
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umm...
[Read the article: A Democrat in '08? In theory, yes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Isn't there something more substantial to discuss about politics than polls?
Aren't you doing exactly what every other hack in the MSM is doing by empowering those who are prone to be willfully ignorant of the issues by turning it all into a contest of numbers?
Can we please try to aspire to be more?
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err...
[Read the article: Karl Rove is ... right?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since when do we take seriously seeds of doubt that spawn divisions in our resolve from the enemy?
Even if he is right?
By making this post, you've expanded his echo chamber.
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think outside the box...
[Read the article: Are kids worth the cost?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm guessing the typical business week reader can rationalize a BMW or a Hummer as a rational consumer choice.
This would suggest the point of the article isn't to have someone actually decide to have/nothave kids, rather to inform them that the money the sacrifices they are making are similar to the GPS/NAV options on that BMW... It feeds into that whole 'new' dynamic of well educated women (who I'm guessing also drive BMWs and Hummers) 'choosing' to have more kids, rationalizing that it takes an ivy-legue education to manage such an extravigant lifestyle.
In short: the article helps to upscale the brand of parenthood, by pointing out how frivilous it is...