Letters to the Editor
Blue Sun Cola
Published Letters: 19 Editor's Choice: 5
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Crispy Christ on a Cracker!
[Read the article: The Fix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The baby fell hard enough to get a skull fracture and a clot and they WAITED on the hospital visit? I'm just boggled. That poor baby.
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Silly bullshit?
[Read the article: Top 25 reasons to hate high school]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When you're in high school, "the entire world" doesn't mean, well, the entire world. It means the miniscule universe you live in - your town, your school, your classes, your friends.
To the girls on this list? Yes, this is possibly the worst possible thing in the entire world that could happen to them. It's embarassing, it's degrading, and most of all it opens you up to more ridicule and harassment as word of the list gets around and people scramble to see it.
We had a similar situation at my high schoo, though if I remember correctly that list was ordered on the basis of "fuckability". I was friends with several of the girls named and to them, it was like the sky had fallen in. Some girls skipped school, some hid in the bathrooms and cried, and some got angry and tracked down the people who did it and got them punished.
In my school's case probably about two hundred people saw the list. That's, again, not the whole world, but for the girls I knew, that was pretty much everyone they might come in contact with in their daily lives.
It's not "silly bullshit" if it happened to you.
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Re: Mentors
[Read the article: Woman vs. woman at work]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Both my "official" and "unofficial" mentors are male. That's because in my industry, the vast majority of the women are assistants and administrative workers and the vast majority of the men are in management and leadership positions. This is changing pretty rapidly, and I know of women in at other companies who are in their 30s and 40s and are holding down the sort of high-level positions I aspire to. While I would love to have one of them as my mentor, at my company the potential mentors are all men, so therefore, I have male mentors.
Of course, I still think the absolute smartest move I ever made at work was becoming friends with some of the oldtimers, women who started in this business at 18 fresh out of secretarial school and now 45 years later are priceless sources of institutional memory, general office gossip and the sort of everyday familiarity with the work that the guys in management have lost.
I just think you need everyone when you're young and starting out - you need mentors, or just plain friends, in all levels of the company to help you find your way.
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Stupid three hour finale
[Read the article: "Gooey girls' fare" goes prime time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I've never seen this show before in my life, but I wandered across the season finale. But. . .at least in the episode that aired here, the guy doesn't die, there's no outfit-changing scene, there's a marriage proposal, and everyone is happy in the end, much like a hallmark card or ABC after-school special."
All you saw was the first part of the three hour finale - they showed a two hour episode Monday night that did indeed contain Denny getting a heart transplant, Izzie changing her dress three times, and Denny dying.
And I have to admit, I like GA, but that finale would have been so, so much better if they had hacked it down to one hour. I just don't think that the arch, "fizzy" tone of it can sustain itself for more than that amount of time.
Bailey, though, is still my hero. I'll watch next season just for her.
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American?
[Read the article: The Velvet Revolution -- on the field]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I thought it was pretty clear that the writer of the piece is British.
I have no idea about the accuracy of the rest of your comment, but perhaps you should edit it to read "shoddy British journalism".
Me, I liked the excerpt. But then I do have such a soft spot for the men and women who engineered the Velvet Revolution.
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John Fairfax -
[Read the article: Home sweet shelter]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Towels are always good. I hate it when you have no clean towels left and have to make due with the "used" towel that's been used for a week and that is still slightly damp. I imagine that's a pretty universal feeling.
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I guess it's a cultural thing
[Read the article: I've lost control of my son's christening!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I mean, everyone I know had the same sort of Christening - private ceremony with maybe 50 or 75 people in attendance, mostly family and old friends. After the ceremony, everyone trots off to the country club, or maybe the grandparents' house if it's sufficiently sized, and has brunch or canapes and drinks champagne and makes cooing noises at the baby.
We're upper middle class Episcopalians in the South, but I know Catholics and Methodists who have christenings just like ours, so maybe it's some sort of convoluted religio-social-cultural-regional thing.
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[Read the article: The Fix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Methadone is not used solely for treatment of heroine addiction. It's also frequently used as a pain killer.
From WebMD:
"Methadone is used to control cancer pain or chronic pain not caused by cancer when other opioids, such as morphine, have not been effective."
They also go on to say:
"Methadone was originally developed as a substitute for morphine to relieve pain. Its effectiveness and long duration of action led to its use in maintenance programs for the treatment of heroin addiction. For this reason many people are reluctant to use methadone for cancer pain even though it is very effective."
Methadone is chemically related to codeine drugs like Vicodin.
A guy I went to high school with has been on methadone in the past for chronic pain caused by a football injury. While in the public mind methadone = heroin recovery, that's not always the case.
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Heroes getting axed in three weeks?
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry, Tomreedtoon, but not gonna happen. Not only was it #2 in the ratings last week, it's been given a full season pickup.
I'm glad, I have to admit. I'm a sucker for overwrought, portentious genre shows, so Heroes is totally my Monday night tv crack.