Letters to the Editor
Lygeia
Published Letters: 15 Editor's Choice: 1
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The food manufacturers, not life, will kill you
[Read the article: Life will kill you]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The FDA has approved the use of aspartame as an ingredient in over 9,000 food products, which in and of itself is not news.
What is news, however, is that these 9,000 products do not have to list aspartame as an ingredient in the product. So, you can buy something, after having read the label which gives no indication aspartame is in the product, and you are buying a product with aspartame in it.
Additionally, aspartame is an excellent preservative because when it breaks down, it turns into formaldehyde.
It is not "life" that will kill you. It is the food manufacturers who are adulterating what we eat who are endangering us.
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No girls in the treehouse
[Read the article: Quote of the day: Take that, Jodie Foster, Nicole Kidman!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This whole Jody Foster/Nicole Kidman thing is an excuse for Hollywood to produce the type of action films they believe are easiest for them to sell across the world.
This means minimal dialogue and lots of violence and explosions. Dubbing is expensive and audiences generally don't like subtitles. Also, images of violence are understood across all cultures. The target market is men between the ages of 12 and 28 whether they want to be the target market or not and whether or not they really like violence and explosions.
Hollywood has decided a certain type of movie is most cost-effective and is looking for a justification to make live-action cartoons instead of films.
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The dog bullies
[Read the article: Ellen, the dog bullies and me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is all about normalizing the police state.
Yes. Celebrities do get special treatment. But we are seeing a lot of this. Nicole Richie doing 82 minutes in jail. Paris Hilton, sentenced to several weeks in jail, while ultimately doing less time. Britney Spears losing visitation rights with her kids. Ellen De Generes engaged in this puppy drama where the dog she gave to her hairdresser was taken by SWAT cops from the arms of a a little crying child because she was 11 years old and the head of the shelter thought small dogs can't be in families unless all the children are over the age of 14.
And people are buying it. Posting things like "she should have asked permission," "we have to follow the rules," well of course the police can take the dog, the child was 11."
I understand people need to think before they act and act wisely. And of course we should treat animals better in this country.
But a thug class is developing that is pushing us around for violating infractions of multitudinous rules.
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The world's scariest wedding dress
[Read the article: Train-zilla ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It looks Adobe Photoshopped.
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Clarence Thiomas is not a sellout
[Read the article: Clarence Thomas is not a sellout]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Um. Is too.
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Have I ruined my karma?
[Read the article: Have I ruined my karma by sleeping with prostitutes?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who cares if you ruined your karma.
Just DON'T tell your wife.
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Mother of Tears: The Third Mother
[Read the article: "Mother of Tears: The Third Mother"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This reminds me of the Bill Hicks routine where he rails against marketers. "You make sick, violent crap that is poisoning our world, kill yourselves."
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The Last Mistress
[Read the article: "The Last Mistress"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So we get a movie about a woman who shoots her lover and then has sex with him while he is dying?
Didn't some of the decadent ancient Romans get off on having sex with a person whose throat they had just slit? But, oh how 18th century, the bohemian mistress uses a gun.
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Wanted
[Read the article: "Wanted"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Assassinating people is not necessary to "maintain the balance in the world."
This is just more violent corporate-media crap designed to poison our world.
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Legendary German rock groupie tells all!
[Read the article: Legendary German rock groupie tells all!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just have one question: How can a blow job lead to a quarrel? Especially four times?
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Cheesy Scandinavian pop
[Read the article: Knowing me, knowing ABBA]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This makes me glad I listen to classical music . . .
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It takes a Westerner
[Read the article: It takes a piglet]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why didn't the people in the Tharu village come up with this idea on their own? It doesn't seem like it would be too hard to put 2+2 together like this and come up with this idea to save their daughters from slavery. It will be interesting to see if they fall back to their default position of selling their daughters into slavery in a few years. Then another Westerner can come along and save them from themselves again.
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I have to chime in
[Read the article: Touched by a vampire]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tomreedtoon:
The reason why some women are "attracted" (if that is even the right word) to bad boys is because they mistakenly think someone that badass can protect them. These women don't realize such men will actually turn around and hurt them. It is a psychological affliction and normal women do not share an interest in or a desire for a rapist.
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Hookup Culture
[Read the article: In defense of casual sex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Promiscuity disguised as women's liberation.
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Sgt. Eric Kocher and being a Marine
[Read the article: Big Think: "Emotion is only weakness"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To Xvandadu Hutman:
You are watching a corporate video.