Letters to the Editor
timbuktom
Published Letters: 2938 Editor's Choice: 143
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Radio Ads Too
[Read the article: The waning power of the War Myth]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Chicago radio suddenly is running preposterous ads about the unacceptable impossibility of defeat in Iraq. This message still has power among Americans.
A Democratic candidate must say "unwinnable," and explain, rather than just implying, and hoping for support from everybody. Somebody must bring American "patriots" such as my dad to understand how W. Bush and his guys have tried to dupe them.
Then, the patriots' outrage will bring about a good result. Otherwise, it's just Round Three or Round Million in the same-old regurgitated-cliche shout-down.
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Barack Says a Lot of "In Theory" Stuff
[Read the article: Obama casts out the mortgage lenders]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Barack Obama speaks and writes pretty well, but I am noticing that he says a lot of general, "common-sense" things, rather than addressing the actual details of real situations.
When he came to Detroit, he gave a boring lecture on the basic facts of the auto industry. He added nothing of value to the discussion. He seems the same in his mortgage comments.
Maybe he does not have enough real experience to be President. We need more than theory and the conventional wisdom.
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Maybe The Smell Turns People On...
[Read the article: Why bathroom sex is hot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Public men's rooms stink, and I hate the smell, but is there some sexy, hormoney component to that smell? Does some pheremone comprise part of the smell of pee? So, maybe, is there an unconscious physical aspect to public restroom sex?
(Even if so: TOO GROSS! BARF!)
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Rally Caps, Underpants, Pockets ans So On
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wear my cap inside-out when I want the Tigers to win. I wear my underpants inside-out when I want a beautiful woman to fall in love with me. I pull my pockets inside-out when I need money to pay the rent.
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It Is NOT About Homo-ness...
[Read the article: Craig to resign Saturday]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This whole thing is about a stinky airport men's room and a creepy old man.
This is not a homo issue. It is a creep issue. This guy does not belong in the US Senate.
Amen.
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Demasiados de este topico
[Read the article: Why bathroom sex is hot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hay muchas locas de este topico. Nosotros ganamos! Este Senator es muerto. !Hasta la vista, Senator Larry!
Ahora, tenemos que ganar el pais de los EUA. !Buena suerte, amigos! Yo quiero ganar, pero no podemos ganar facilmente.
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Holiday Weekend Post re Easy Wins for College Football
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Appalachian State just beat the arrogant, boring Michigan Wolverines! In the Wolverines' arrogant "Big House" stadium. Har-Har!!
I did not see ths game because we have great free jazz in Motown today. Always go to Barbara Ware and Yuseff Lateef rather than the Lloyd Carr (Mich. coach).
Jazz always wins. The Wolverines usually disappoint.
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Even True Gossip Is Evil
[Read the article: Psst! Have you heard...?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Do not talk about your friends to their other friends. Somebody had an abortion. I talked about it. Eventually, I did or had something worse. They probably talked about it.
We grow up believing that Gossip is a laughable, low-class thing, not the sort of thing we higher-class, smart people ever need to worry about. We are not prepared to deal with our own human tendencies.
Please never gossip, and teach your kids never to do it. As other posters have said, go bowling or take drum lessons instead.
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Maybe Just Try It
[Read the article: Lately I've been kissing women I'm not married to]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If the attractive partner also is married, and wants to stay married...
If the attractive partner is a grown-up who is not likely to rat you out...
Maybe just do it.
You want to do it. See how it feels, when you do it, the next morning, a week later. Then make up your mind.
We all need to get beyond the cliches, e.g. "happily married," and find out what we really think, what we really feel.
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Does it hold a lot of dirt?
[Read the article: The new Roomba sucks. Really well]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It does not look very big. Does it stop automatically when its bag or dirt chamber fills up?
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The Weakly Reader
[Read the article: National Review's new tough guy, Mark Hemingway]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How's that for a title?
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Be Polite, Smile, and Make Up Your Own Mind
[Read the article: I'm a new university student. How do I make friends?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1. Manners (being polite) make a big impression during Freshman year. People such as you who have good manners seem mature (that is good) to the college dopuses from Podunk. Even if the dopuses themselves try to be hip by acting antisocial, they and everybody else will admire you if you shake hands and look people in their eyes.
2. I advise you to smile at people, even if your smile is nervous or forced. (You are young; the less-than-perfect young smile is charming as all-get-out.) And pity the people who believe they are real because they never smile. Even they will start smiling by Sophomore year.
3. Have you ever had any friends? Maybe yes. How did you get them? Who knows? Friends just come. Please bear with your life and your worries until after Thanksgiving break. Then go back to college, and evaluate. I predict you will be so mightily glad to be at college, away from your parents, that you will find plenty enough happiness to get through college, and keep on. Have fun! Good luck!
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V.P. Cheney actually IS a Mandarin...
[Read the article: Why George Bush should study Mandarin]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why didn't they send him to this meeting?
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Craig was try to stub a different part of his anatomy...
[Read the article: Just don't stub it on the guy in the next stall]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not his toe.
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This Guy Lazlo Mozzerella is a Rich Twit...
[Read the article: Countrywide hits an iceberg]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And Countrywide has been an arrogant creep of a giant company. Their customer service was worse than terrible. Their FAX machines did not work. If I had not been on top of my situation, Countrywide and Lassitudo Mortadella would have turned me into a tax delinquent.
And now the mega-don't-matter-no-more-I'm-so-rich Lackwit Mezzanino is going to lay off TWELVE THOUSAND HARD-WORKING EXPLOITED EMPLOYEES who mostly are Countrywide mortgagees to boot!
Deep doo-doo! And Lowrent Malfealso will just skate away. Such a disgrace. Take him to Guantanamo.
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Thompson Loves Torture Too
[Read the article: Thompson proposes a new gay marriage amendment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please do not vote for him. Can you believe this Hollywood guy, who has dealt with gays his whole adult life, will not support gays?!
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Do not pidgeonhole The King!
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Ramus1 I don't think I've ever seen an article by you about tennis. Why not?"
Good old Ramus: King Kaufman has been hospitable to (e.g.) Fencing in his column. So please do not make any sort of Boring Too-Obvious Conclusion.
Please give our King some credit. And if you want to talk Tennis, give him, and give us, something to chew on. Make a post with something fascinating about Tennis, and we will bite.