Letters to the Editor
Serai1
Published Letters: 551 Editor's Choice: 33
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@Thealogian
[Read the article: Pick your pretty poison]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Detergent tips - don't.
Seriously. There's no need to use laundry detergent at all. Use a spot cleaner for stains and then wash your laundry in whichever water temperature is recommended. Your clothes will come out just fine. Don't believe me? Try it. Run a load the way I've described, and I'll bet they come out just as clean as they did when you used detergent.
That's because it's the agitation and temperature of the water that removes dead skin cells, the main thing that gets trapped in the cloth and causes it to look "dirty". The whole detergent racket is mostly a way to bilk you of your money. If you really need for your whites to look WHITE!!! then dump some lemon juice into the water when you wash whites.
I learned about this some ten years ago, and after carefully testing and doing some comparisons, I was surprised to find that it's really true. Give it a try - what can it hurt? You may find yourself saving money by cutting out one more unnecessary batch of chemicals out of your life.
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Clarify
[Read the article: Pick your pretty poison]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One more thing - going without detergent is obviously for regular washing, clothes that you wear everyday in normal circumstances. Dirty diapers, workclothes heavily soiled with grease or other such difficult substances, etc., will require more effort. But those are things in their own category, and unless you're raising a squirt or are a car mechanic, you'll have few of those "specialty" problems to deal with.
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O_o
[Read the article: A bizarre, unsolicited e-mail from Gen. Petraeus' spokesman ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hhhhokay. So.
Glenn emails Steve to ask if he can interview Dave.
Steve: WTF, moonbat? No way.
Glenn: So you only talk to wingnuts?
Steve: We talk to OMG REEL reporters, not n00bs like you.
Glenn: Whatever, dude. FAIL.
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Six months later, Steve emails Glenn.
Glenn:
OMG YOU SUXXOR! You're SO not a lawyer or you'd know WE DON"T GOTTA TALK TO YOU. No why? Cuz youre a PUSSSY. You dont know shit and your journalism sucks and you ain't got the BALLS to come over here cause we'll KICK YOUR ASS. Whiny librul!!
No love,
Steve
Glenn: Uh, whatever. What do you guys think?
Forum: AHHAHAHA FAIL!!! Dude's drunk. Dude's stupid. Dude's a typical wingnut!
Forum: Check it out. Maybe it's fake.
Glenn: OK.
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Glenn: Hey, Steve, did you send this? *copies*
Steve: No.
Glenn: Well, someone did. Aren't you worried?
Steve: It wasn't me.
Steve: And I know it wasn't me because somebody already OMG HACKED into my identity and, like, tried to rent under my name and stuff.
Steve: But they totally don't know who they're dealing with, so yeah whatever. I'll deal with it. And it's none of your business how, kthx.
Steve: And I'm not talking to you anymore. *flounces out*
Glenn: Okkkay...
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Wow. I mean, WOW.
To see the kind of grade-school shenanigans that are common coin on Harry Potter boards employed by a Colonel of the U.S. Army is just...*sigh* Well, it's just too beautiful to behold. Methinks I may go blind from the glory.
I mean, it's been fun in a bitter, Carlinesque to watch the Bush administration slowly eviscerating itself, and I'd laugh a hell of a lot more if we weren't all caught in their backwash. But this...this is a little bit of heaven.
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*headdesk*
[Read the article: Follow-up on the Col. Steven Boylan e-mail exchange]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]i"It would hardly be surprising if some folks in the military started wondering whether it was really worth risking their lives to protect the freedoms of people who seem to hate them and the cutural (sic) mileu (sic) out of which the soldiers came."
Because those folks in the military couldn't possibly have come up with that idea on their own. My, the right-wing media's respect for our troops is just dazzling.
May I just say how utterly, delightfully fascinating this whole thing is? It's like a serialized Dickens novel - I'm on the edge of my seat for the next chapter. To hear that not only is this Boylan clown an internet n00b who dabbles in fan board nonsense, but that he's also a serial troll? That just makes my day.
Take it as a compliment, Glenn - Your sharp intellect and acid pen bring all the boys to the yard.
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About time too
[Read the article: Disposable diaper diesel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've been wondering for years when we were going to wake up and realize that we, ourselves, produce millions of tons of potential fuel source every year. Just because it's OMG ICKY we've been ignoring this possibility since...ever. It's completely childish, inefficient and sad, frankly.
Not just humans, either. The unbelievable amount of ANIMAL waste that could be re-used - as fuel, fertilizer, source of materials for many other things - that instead gets dumped in toxic lakes or flushed into our rivers...how can we justify being so outrageously wasteful, uncaring, and well, stupid?
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Thanks, Andrew!
[Read the article: Are you part of Ron Paul's botnet?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I now have had my suspicions confirmed. Not only is Ron Paul a scary Dominionist who wants to bring down the wall between church and state, and plans to push the crazy fundie agenda by letting "states' rights" deprive the citizenry of hard-won people's</> rights, but as this letters section shows, his supporters are mostly a bunch of prigs who couldn't find their senses of humor with a flashlight and a map.
Then again, how any sane person could even consider voting Libertarian is beyond me. Seems there are an awful lot of truly selfish people in this world.
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Easy solution
[Read the article: Cleric: Your sexy outfit is killing me!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Our prayers become unfocused and our sleep is often disturbed."
So have a wank and be done with it.
I mean, really. Do I have to think of everything around here?
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Waves also
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton can take it]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here's another feminist (30 years and counting) who supports Edwards. If push comes to shove, MAYBE I'd vote for Hillary. But I doubt it.