Letters to the Editor
timbuktom
Published Letters: 2938 Editor's Choice: 143
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Americans do not know nuthin
[Read the article: Pakistan's election reckoning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yer basic USA resident, and yer basic USA Senator, assumes that Pakistan is a preposterous place, and cannot pronounce or spell Musharraf, and does not care.
Thank you for this explanation. Hail Pakistan! But do not count on any benefit from the USA.
Do you remember how our President's father called for the people of Iraq to rebel against Saddam, but then abandoned them? Do you recall that our President Eisenhower encouraged the people of Hungary to fight the Soviets, and then never followed up?
You are on your own. Good luck. I am sorry.
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Kids Who Rake Your Leaves and Shovel Your Snow...
[Read the article: Life shouldn't have to take Visa]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Do NOT take credit cards... Nor do functional alcholics who help you paint your house.
I once bought a house with a Mastercard, but:
Always use cash to buy presents for your girlfriend, so that her husband and your wife will not be able to trace. Cash has its place.
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Short-Sighted Doom-Mongers of the World Disperse!
[Read the article: The ecological sins of Leon Trotsky]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Despite our retro-minded leaders, we can, probably will, reach the point where all humans have what they need, and do what they wish to do.
We can manange things so that even starving Africans will be free of hunger and disease. They will live at least as well as the average Joe in Peoria. Within fifty years.
Do you not want this? It is within reach. Please give up your moral delusions about how much people deserve. Everybody deserves good water, good health care, enough food, good education, and a decent home.
We can do this fairly easily. Famously war-torn Europe has come closest to accomplishing it. Parts of Asia are getting there. The USA's minimum standard is moving up.
All Americans used to assume this goal. It is the only reasonable goal. It is within our grasp. Oil will run out, but we will run on and on, running on solar, NOT running on empty. Relax, and do whatever you want to do... Do something worthy of a human. Trotsky is dead, and so are his enemies.
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How can you be so profound on Iraq...
[Read the article: Sex, drugs and my 15-year-old]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...and so shallow with your son?
He deserves a better, deeper discussion, the sort of discussion you give us here in Salon. He probably will be fine, though. And if he is, give your son the credit. Your silliness will not have helped him very much, except maybe to increase his sense of humor.
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So what?
[Read the article: I'm cheating on my husband and loving it. Is that a problem?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is what you do. It is who you are. Your husband knows darn well that you are sexy as all get-out. That is one of the reasons he likes you. He probably is proud to be married to such a sexy woman.
Next step [more fun]: Have you fallen in love with any of your lovers? That is the greatest. To be spititually in love, and passionately in lust to boot.
If not, probably, eventually, you will drift back into fidelity with your husband, and appreciate him deeply, and spend your life content and grateful.
In the meantime, stay secret, admit nothing, and see what life brings you.
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Nominee for New Yankees Manager
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They need somebody with experience, who can get along with Mr. Steinbrenner:
George Costanza!
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We are slaughtering the corn, wheat, and watermelons!
[Read the article: A diet for a small planet that includes some (but not much) meat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's take this to its obvious logical, moral conclusion, and do as my family and I have done:
We are Extreme Compassionate Vegans (tm). We never eat meat, and we only eat nasty, offensive plants such as Poison Ivy and Skunk Cabbage. Sometimes, for a treat, we eat acorns, but only after they have fallen off their oaks.
If you want a truly "Green" salad, try the dried-out brown pine needles from the forest floor. So yummy, and so incredibly moral!
After The Revolution, everybody will eat this way.
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Snobby is as Snobby Does
[Read the article: Snobbery rules]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is a much more complicated subject than anybody thought. Here's a little, bitty bit of input:
I am snobby enough, and experienced enough at cooking, to go to real restaurant supply places to buy really cool heavy, plain commercial pots and pans, the kind real restaurant kitchens use.
One joy of my snobbery is that these real utensils cost powers less than the fancy stuff at department stores, the kind less-experienced food-snob brides register for.
However! Now, in the latest issue of Bon Appetit, I see certain pots and pans advertised. They look very plain, like the real commercial stuff, but they cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars each! Ha!
However again, however! I worry about my own version of food snobbery: I am not snobby enough to know how to put the accent mark over the "e" in "Bon Appetit" in this e-mail. And Bon Appetit itself may not be considered cool by true foodies, even though I love it.
Food snobbery is a slippery slope, but somehow we keep climbing up.
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We should be taking care of all our kids.
[Read the article: Right-wing bullies pick on children]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It does not matter how much the kids' (plural - don't forget the seriously, permanently injured sister) parents make.
In the USA, we should take care of all our kids. Civilized countries already do so.
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Stay focused on real Torture, please
[Read the article: We must ban secretive U.S. torture]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's back this legislation, and end torture by the US government. Do not confuse the issue by including torture metaphors, and borderline cases, and side issues. We can address those things in separate bills and investigations.
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Here's a real value I might kill for:
[Read the article: An open letter to Karen Hughes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No Torture.
But I never would torture for it.
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First, laugh at yourself...
[Read the article: Apparently I'm a bisexual mom]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Think of this as the ridiculous situation it is, rather than some deadly-serious soap opera of Human Destiny. It's hysterical, not historical.
It is a phase, pretty much, and you need to ride it out, just as you have ridden out your attraction to some movie star.
Do not have an affair with anybody unless you are sure you can keep it secret. All these people who advise to discuss with your husband are full of baloney.
If you actually try it, the phase may end sooner than if you just tough it out. No matter what you do though, keep it secret, and do not break up your family.