Letters to the Editor
timbuktom
Published Letters: 2445 Editor's Choice: 141
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More Human Nature Than Crazy, Maybe - The Cool Kids
[Read the article: My wife thinks I'm cheating on her -- but I'm not!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your wife wants to fit in with her group of "Abused Cheated-On Heroines." She wants her own story to be as interesting and dramatic as their stories. They are the Cool Kids, and she wants them to accept her.
Banker Girl, Rupert C., and Brightstar already have touched on this. I have seen it many times, for example:
1. I once fell in love with somebody, and she told me how awful her husband was, but much of the stuff she said sounded okay. She was trying to gin up a dramatic soap opera of an autobiography. I do not know why. It's just human nature.
2. One of my old pals joined Alcoholics Anonymous, and now he blames his father for his own booze and dope problems. Baloney! I knew his father pretty well, and I know that the father was a much better father to my buddy than my buddy has been to his own kids.
This guy just heard all the other AA people blaming their parents, and he jumped on the bandwagon. Now he has refined his fantasy to the point where he awes his AA group, where his story tops everybody else's story, and he is the king of AA. It's just baloney, but he loves it.
So... If your wife enjoys her new group more than she enjoys reality, more than she enjoys you, there is nothing you can do. This is how people act, even if they are not crazy.
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Anybody remember?...
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bob "Bleeping" Bailey??? Three twitches = Three strikes.
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Utterly Crazy!
[Read the article: It's official: GOP to punish early-voting states]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Both parties are saying this stuff! I cannot believe it will stand. I cannot believe the state parties made these moves! Nobody wins, and nothing is accomplished.
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God would not punish California...
[Read the article: Why does Glenn Beck hate California so much?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Unless California deserved it! And God would not have made Glenn Beck rich and famous unless Glenn deserved it. Repent! And follow Glenn's example. Be nasty; be shallow; be preposterous.
Furthermore, if Glenn Beck is rich and famous, he must be smart. And Rush Limbaugh must be REALLY smart, because he is really rich and really nasty, shallow, and preposterous.
[Many, many Americans think this way.]
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Bosses Usually Are Idiots - Wear Beautiful Clothes
[Read the article: My boss says I'm a lesbian but I'm not!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1. Now you know that bosses are jerks. You will have several, maybe many jackass bosses during your life. That is just the way they are. Please just remember this when you become a boss, and try to be better. This particular boss seems about medium on the Boss Assholery Scale. No need to, and no profit from, making a big brouhaha.
2. I strongly suggest that you start finding and wearing great-looking clothes. Why in the world would you put something ugly onto yourself? This "I'm too lazy" is not an excuse. You can put on beautiful colors, textures and shapes just as lazily and simply as you can put on ugly dull boring rags.
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On that Twit David Stockman
[Read the article: How Bush wrecked conservatism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He is under indictment now, facing prison time, for an Enron-style scheme which brought down his company Collins and Aichman, a giant auto parts supplier.
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Free Rein
[Read the article: Blackwater's run for the border]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]NOT
Free Reign, or Free Rain, or Free Range
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Perfect Baseball Playoffs Start Time Solution
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If the Eastern and Central Time Zones went back from Daylight Time to Standard Time right before the World Series, AND, the Mountain and Pacific Time Zones stayed on Daylight time...
Then games could start at 7pm Eastern, which would be 6pm Central, and also 6pm Mountain, and 5pm Pacific.
This would get Easterners to bed earlier, and would not affect Mountaineers or Pacificants.
OR: Games still could start at 8pm Eastern. This would not help the Eastern late-game problem, but it would give a later, more reasonable 7pm Mountain/6pm Pacific start time.
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Sibling Rivalry Red (Vin de Pays du Michigan)
[Read the article: How green is your bottle of red?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Three weeks ago, my brother and I plus family plus a few all-but-family friends picked wild grapes growing over tumbled down barns and along dirt roads in northern Michigan. We stomped them. Our mother lifted up her skirts like Lucy and stomped.
We had an uproarious Family Harvest Festival including original bawdy songs and embarrassing hilarious stories. That's great juju for the wine. This stuff probably will cure diseases and ensure heavenly salvation, even if it doesn't taste good.
These little Pinot Incognito grapes produce deep, deep, ever so deep red juice. Now that blood is fermenting in Brother Joe's basement up north. We expect about thirty bottles next spring or so.
Want a bottle? Order now for the low, low price of (let's say) $20 including shipping. Send Andrew Leonard an e-mail; he knows my e-mail.
Zero carbon footprint except for the gas we used to drive up north. Salud!
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Ah don't know wut "Manichean" means...
[Read the article: Is a new conservatism possible?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]An' ah don't trust nobody who knows! Wut are yew? Smart???
[GARY KAMIYA FOR PRESIDENT!]
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We built it; they will come
[Read the article: A job well done by Tom Tancredo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The USA is loaded with immigrants! They come, illegally, legally, and otherwise. There is no such thing as a secure border. Even Detroit, the current national example of a no-hope city, is full of recent foreigners.
No matter how many words you hear about immigration, no matter the theoretical debate, they keep on arriving. But two points:
1. Not everybody comes to the USA. Only the bravest or the most desperate come here. For example, Germany is full of Turks who wanted to go to a place with more humane policies than the USA. And Canada is a preferred destination too. The USA is far down these people's list. They only come here if they have no other choice.
2. You Americans now might go to more civilized countries to save your own skins. For example, my bride and I like Amsterdam, the place my great-grandparents fled. And we like Greece. Check out Belize.
Stop with your simplistic, out of date preconceptions. The real world now is different from what your uncle told you, back in the fourth grade.