Letters to the Editor
MXC 100*193
Published Letters: 34 Editor's Choice: 5
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your neighbour's feeling abandoned!
[Read the article: My neighbor is having coffee with somebody new]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Suddenly you have a JOB!....... and she doesn't.
A job is money, status, a new sense of identity, new circumstances, a new circle of acquaintances (that doesn't include her) and all the possibilities that might bring. She can't factor all that change into the version of you that she's comfortable with. It's too scary and threatening for her. Otherwise, cutting you off so completely after an intimate friendship, just doesn't make sense unless there's a major emotional subtext of hurt and jealousy going on.
So you've moved on? Fine! She shall do the same, and rub your face in it, just to prove how unimportant you (dang you, with your fancy new life'n all!) are to her.
Give it time. You have to allow her to be herself, cold attitude and all, however unfair it feels. Maybe, if the friendship was really a true friendship, she may come round.
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a little lesson from the universe
[Read the article: My ex-con neighbor owes me money]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I’m amazed. You want to be a successful business man? Some lessons in business savvy are needed here. How can you allow an ex-con who still hadn’t paid his bills to use you for cheap/free emergency rescue? Didn’t you see the signs? You could’ve just said, “Sorry I’m busy, can’t make it at the moment, but I’ll call give you the number of a good garage.”
But it’s too late for that now. Sadly, some folk are real bastards, and this one seems unlikely to develop a conscience in this lifetime. I’d just stay the hell away from him, and ramp up the security on the house, keep your animals indoors when you’re not around to supervise them. Try to get some support from your other neighbours. And do contact the police, this guy and his kid are dangerous.
In the meantime, looks like you need the regular income as a paid mechanic in a garage, at least part-time. Then perhaps think about getting a business partner who’s a bit more street smart than you. You have a good and innocent heart that’s too open to abuse by the likes of con-man.
By the way, I think you’ve lost the money. Just chalk it down to experience.
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brain tart
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The things we're really appreciated for - great brains, and good heart, are as ugly as sin.
Isn't it good they're safely tucked away out of sight? Now what does our soul look like?
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only In America?
[Read the article: Campaigning while female]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sadly, in the UK, it's not so much jowls and wrinkles but actually age itself that's the problem, and that goes for males too. Once upon a time (yes that long ago) age would have been a factor in a politician's favour; gravitas, experience and all, but no, now it has to be some young thing who's hip and happening. Recently, Sir Menzies Campbell was forced into resigning as leader of the Liberal Party mainly because of the brouhaha over his age (mid 60's). Vince Cable temporarily replaced him and did a really great job, but at 64 he smells too much of the graveyard as well. The new leader was elected today, one Nick Clegg, age 40 but bland, smooth and inoffensive to the eyes. All style over substance.
As long as they're not political party leaders, women politicians are allowed to age here, as long as they don't do it too obviously, like developing a humped back or needing a hearing aid. But since American trends take about 10 years to travel across the pond and become established here, I should think ageing will soon be banned here too.
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Baby = (lovely) parasite, potentially life threatening.
[Read the article: The abortion doctor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To those people who are anti-abortion:
Childbirth is the most dangerous time in a woman’s life.
In Africa, it’s estimated that a quarter of a million women each year die from being pregnant/giving birth. Modern medicine’s made it safer for us, obviously, but a pregnant woman still has to temporarily lose control over her body. The foetus grows like a little parasite inside the mother. Among other things, it strips her bones of calcium (if her diet doesn’t provide enough) for its own bones, and likewise, her brain of essential fatty acids EFA’s for its developing brain. She’ll have to risk stuff like a ripped vagina, permanent damage to the muscles for bladder control, dangerously high blood pressure, gestational diabetes, etc etc etc. She may develop post-natal depression, may give birth to a disabled baby requiring life-long care. It’s such a profoundly and permanently life-changing experience.
You can’t impose that on somebody. It has to be a willing sacrifice. It really is up the woman, nobody else has the right to dictate. Especially not those who want to breed to fill a 'more of' category, be it republicans, christians, white people, chicken farmers or patisserie chefs.