Letters to the Editor
Jan VanDenBerg
Published Letters: 49
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If you are near Colorado or want to pay to fly him, I will take your cat for a barn cat
[Read the article: I hate my cat!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mine was run off by my fieldhand's pit bull.
If that cat can stand up to a two pit bulls, he's mine.
I am starting to get mice poop and nests in my sheds and barn (where I have a LOT of stuff stored) and I prefer not to have to put out poison, which can make it to the dogs, into water, etc.
You will pay all shipping charges.
Post your response here, if you are interested. If you want to do this, send Cary your email address and maybe he can forward it on to me.
Jan VanDenBerg
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Oh, and I WILL feed the cat
[Read the article: I hate my cat!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Many farmers do not feed barn cats.
I'm not a farmer; I just own a farm at the moment.
I DO feed my outdoor cats, just dry food. This bores them enough that, while they aren't starving, they still hunt.
Jan VanDenBerg
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Say it again, Sam
[Read the article: Why women stay with abusers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It would be nice if the point of this book -- many women stay with abusers because, there, he will beat them but he will probably let them live, but if they leave, he will probably hunt them down and kill them -- didn't have to be repeated, but it does, so --- Say it again, Sam.
Weird that it is so hard for people to understand this point.
I guess it is hard for people to accept the reality that SO MANY MEN are potential murderers. Not that many people will kill strangers, but a LOT of men, apparently, would kill "their" woman.
It is clear that the most common scenario in which a woman ends up dead is simply: She exits an abusive relationship, the ex finds her and kills her.
Happens a lot. Apparently, it is some kind of "natural" male behavior, taken to its logical extreme. Control is somehow hardwired into men and some are just a lot more violent about it.
And, broadening the scope of murderous men, think about how frequently you see these little newspaper blurbs about the guy who kills his children, his wife and then himself.
Happens all the time.
Now, you people who keep yarping about how abuse is an equal-opportunity activity, when is the last time you saw one of this little newspaper articles about a WOMAN who killed her kids, her husband and then herself?
I don't think I've ever read one. Ever.
Jan VanDenBerg
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I agree with all the commenters who stated the obvious
[Read the article: Why won't my boyfriend introduce me to his daughters?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why doesn't Cary get it?
It takes a "friend on the phone" to forge some contact between Cary and reality?
This guy is an advice columnist?
Jan VanDenBerg
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Yeah, kids are boring but WHY DID YOU HAVE THEM?????
[Read the article: Bad news dad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are such a pretentious slob. You foist on this overburdened world two pollution-poopers that YOU DON'T PARTICULARLY WANT.
It is bad enough for parents, in their selfish obsession with infesting our fragile, crowded, shared, beautiful blue globe with their semi-acceptable genes, who really really want kids to have one or two to "replace themselves" but when a guy like you impinges upon the rest of us with your SECOND SET of offspring, the rest of us really just must stand up and tell you what a jerk you are.
And then you whine about it.
Just lay off, stupid. At LEAST limit the offspring from your second wife to ONE.
But most of all, if you can't fail to do that, don't WHINE about the inconvenience to yourself of your own irresponsible actions.
We really don't need people who have four kids in this crowded, warming world, you know.
We're not that interested in how you feel about the little irritations of stepping on squeaky toys.
That's nothing compared to the irritations of all the rest of us who will be forced to live with the effluent, the CO2 emissions, the food-and-oil-price-increasing consumption, and the pollution created by YOUR choices for not just the next 70 years, until your two sons die, but PROBABLY for the next 3000 or more years, because they will probably inherit your selfish tendency to over-replicate themselves.
Jan VanDenBerg