Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 67 Editor's Choice: 5
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Typecasting
[Read the article: The joys of home fries and wine]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"You know how some people got perfect pitch, and always like wince and complain about whatever you play on your musical instrument, or point out how the music you listen to isn't actually "correct"? And they only listen to classical music? They are like the people who worry about wine matching food. Everyone hates them."
Sez you, stereotypically. Up to that point, I was amused.
You make it sound like you are actually in the same room with a [wait for it] Classical Musician. OMG!!! OOOH, how did you manage to come out alive? And then you were the victim of stereotypical rudeness and uppityness. Oh sure. Love of ALL music is pretty much a prerequisite for being a musician. You act like "classical" musicians actually act in the way your text suggests. Oh, and, of course, we've never, ever listened to anything but Mozart. No other genres for us, no siree. Well, most of us are under 100, golleeeeeee, and actually have heard/liked/loved/played all sorts of music. So quit with the tired, stale and boring streotyping.
Get a life. Quit being a "labeler".
I bet you go for the fat opera soprano stuff, too. And horned Viking helmets. You live dangerously, don't you?
I rant, I know; but I'm tired of all this stuff. Kind of like that "Italian" or "French" music used in ads---oh yeah, like they listen to that crap in France and Italy and wherever these days. WTF decade are they describing? And where?
It is sort of an American aversion to reality. I want my Italian to come with a concertina, not an opera, dammit.
Ah, the revered, all-American typecasting. Guess we're all just too stupid to understand "we're an Italian restaurant", without the little cues, visual or aural.
I know, this is a serious rant for a light article; now think about the recent damage Don Imus has done, with stereotypical labeling.
Is is just a matter of degree?
IGNORANT TYPECASTING IS ALWAYS HURTFUL.
So think about it.
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Post-scare anger
[Read the article: My boyfriend's climbing partner let him fall]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Like the stages of grieving, the letter writer is experiencing delayed shock and anger. No big surprises there. The novice climber "friend" probably should have been vetted more carefully before the climb, but that is easy to say after the fact, isn't it? The novice sounds like a class-A jerk; he's probably never been called on his excuse-laden behaviour ever before. [I bet he's "special" and therefore everything is always someone else's fault. "Special" people always need to be cut slack.] Letter writer should cultivate the skill to say what's on her mind. Why tip-toe around the jerk? Don't pay him, tell him to get lost right quick, and --[she sounds like a lot of women, unfortunately raised to be "ladies" and not make waves--I was raised that way, too, no criticism]---at this point, concentrate on the BF's recovery.
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Boring?
[Read the article: "Fracture"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The article states: "The picture is clever, somber, quiet: There's just no reason it has to be as deadly boring as it is.".......but neglects to provide examples. I don't count the difference of accent/emotion between actors as an example, nor do the mentions of visuals. I still want to see this movie. Perhaps it is just too clever for the LCD-types out there?
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A Nitpick for Whale10
[Read the article: A Gonzales resignation is not enough]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"In Myers v. United States 272 U.S. 52 (1926), [b]in an opinion written by Chief Justice William Howard Taft the USSC rules that officers named by the president were subject to removal at his pleasure[/b] and they declared unconstitutional several laws which granted the Congress oversite over the firing of political appointees, including the Tenure of Office Act of 1867 which led DIRECTLY to the impeachment and trial of President Andrew Johnson."
You seem to know the Constitution, and its opinions, very well. So, I'm wondering
why you mis-spelled a simple little word like "oversight" [overSITE to you] ?
Ooooof, ouch. There goes your credibility, right along with all the caps, with which
I REALLY DO EMPATHIZE.
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Baseball
[Read the article: The 2008 election, explained by Yogi Berra]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There's nothing, including politics, that a good baseball quote won't clarify!
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Oedipus
[Read the article: Should I tell my daughter about her mother's two abortions?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH. Another "daddy" stepping up to the plate with belated and useless "concern" for the daughter, but not having the cojones to be honest about his motives. Yeah, riiight. Sounds like he wants to get back at the mother. Daughter doesn't need any more crap stemming from her parents' divorce. I know ALL about yelling, boundary-breaking fathers who presume to know what their daughter wants/feels. "I'm the DAD, I get to tell you what to do, I get to yell and be angry, and if you still go ahead and do what I don't want, don't expect me to stand by you; and oh, by the way, your mom had two abortions. NOW will you listen to me? After all, [absentee] fathers always know best. I'm here to protect you. And, by the way, your sexuality scares the living shit out of me." It takes years to overcome the damage--yeah, you heard me right. Damage. Now, perhaps the mother and daughter couldn't get along at this time-who knows? This family's dynamic is already messed up, Does dear dad here think that scoring easy points against the mother now will not be remembered later? Perhaps he was planning to deny personal responsibility in the pregnancies? I'd be willing to BET that this dude got into "pregnancy difficulties" at around the same age as his daughter is now. The daughter can probably see through the father in a heartbeat. More likely is that the father doesn't want to have to be emotionally or financially involved if an abortion situation does arise. We don't know when the divorce happened--if daughter has such identity-issues, I'd also be willing to bet that she's just counting the days until she can get away from both parents. Poor kid.