Letters to the Editor
Jkalos
Published Letters: 486 Editor's Choice: 3
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Bebop-o
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Doest your roof really leak? It bothers me to think of it!
And today I took my mom over to the surgeon for a post op visit, and as we sat there she told me about some of the amazing hallucinations she had right after surgery due to all the meds. And I remarked to her that sometimes it felt like to me that my whole life since birth had been like one long hallucination, and we both cracked up and laughed and laughed and everyone either stared at us or carefully didn't look at us, if you know what I mean.
Don't get wet, bebop=o.
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@bethincary
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have three daughters, 24, 20, and 14.
I have learned to listen, mostly! I think I can tell from your posts that you will be good at that with your daughter. And I have always let them dress however they wish: I made so many embarassing mistakes when I was young, I figure they need their turn too!
Good luck with everything. Teen age years are astonishing.
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RMP
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes: listening is one of the hardest skills to learn, I think. Being a teacher has given me a lot of practice. It's astonishing what can happen when you really stop and listen and ask real questions based on what you hear.
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Man, Chris Dowd
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]You really know how to call up my darkest fears and make me feel extraordinarily depressed.:)I think I will go off and read a good book and not check the primary returns until the morning.
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P.S Mr. Dowd
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]A very nice photo of Kabuki on your website (I clicked on your name).
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bystander wrote
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]"A very special thanks to you, Glenn, for keeping a firm grip on objective reporting. By keeping your preferred candidate to yourself (if you even have one), and by peeling back the layers of the press-onion, for once I feel like I'm examining my own preferences. Thanks for that. It's a profoundly powerful gift."
I would like to second that, Glenn. You continue to help me to think through all this as well.
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Thrasher
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I hope in my heart you are right about Obama. I am one white dude, anyway, who he has given some hope that finally some movement can be made against the terrible history our country has had, beginning with the native americans. I will never forget a course I taught with a colleague on Native American history and thought, and the absolute horror thinking and talking through what my country was founded on engendered in me, as careful as I was to be rational about it: indeed, rationality demanded I experience it as a horror. And then there is the history of slavery on top of it. Have you ever heard the Dave Matthews song: "Blood in the Water." don't drink the water, he sings, there's blood in the water . . . as he looks out at a lake in a national park. How do we make this up, his song wonders? How do I take in this landscape without tasting the horrors? Sometimes I wonder, if there is some kind of karmic justice in this universe, how this country could ever come to balance. And Obama has begun to seem to me a kind of powerful symbol of some kind of balancing. My academic specialty is the philosophy of the imagination: how imagination in a strong sense (like Coleride writes about, and Vico before him)--how our symbolic processes and world-making abilities--are as central to our being as our discursive rationality. So that a president is mainly a symbolic figure does not lessen his role but makes it even more central. And somehow the symbol of Bush I, Clinton I, Bush II, Clinton II, when such an alternative is represented, makes my hair stand on end. My greatest fear is that Chris Dowd with his kabuki theories is right and it is all a show put on by the powerful.
And bebop-o: remember I was a Captain! I stand with the good Colonel in his emphatic entreaties to see the doctor if you need to! Don't keep the Colonel waiting!