Letters to the Editor
Serai1
Published Letters: 503 Editor's Choice: 32
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As usual, Parson Jim, you miss the point completely
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]As does the doctor quoted, I think. The "waiting period" is actually an obstacle thrown in the path of women who can't AFFORD to wait. Or are you too ill informed to have heard that there are whole states in this country with only one clinic that performs abortions? Poor women, indigent women, women with limited means of transportation, who live in places like that simply can't come back tomorrow.
Religiously motivated fanatics have slowly been chipping away at our rights with just such bullshit "protections" as the 24-hour waiting period. Once again, it's not about caring for the mother OR the potential child - if it were, these people would be lobbying for plenty of AFTER-birth care, which of course they can't give a crap about.
The "waiting period" has never been about protection, but about control, and about taking away people's rights a little at a time, using lies and hypocrisy to do the deed because it can't get done in a straightforward manner. It's that whole pickle about abortion being legal and all - really gets in the way of keeping control.
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Awww, poor widdle babies!
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]After years of treating people like shit, they're getting shafted right back.
Karma's a bitch, ain't it?
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You've got to be frigging KIDDING me
[Read the article: Once and for all, proof that Macs are cheaper than PCs]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Once again, Farhad has written a column that pertains only to those people with money to throw around on gadgets. When oh WHEN will he write a column that takes into account the idea that vast numbers of people in this country don't have that kind of extra cash?
I've just bought a new PC. It's nice and fast, and it's a relief not to deal with the problems I had with my old one. Wanna know how old it was before I switched over, Farhad? EIGHT YEARS. That's right - for eight years that PC gave me loyal service.
And I'm not even considering putting it on eBay. You know why? Because I've had it for EIGHT YEARS. Like most people who have a computer, I can't afford to switch over every couple of years because the new model is OMGCOOOOL. I got every last moment of service out of Ol' Faithful before even thinking of changing up.
It's bad enough we've got huge corporations urging people to throw their money away by replacing every widget the minute there's a "better" one. (Better? How better? If my machine does what I need just fine, why should I get another one?) We don't need people who are supposedly looking out for us to join in the same "gotta get MOREMOREMORE" chorus, thank you.
Oh, and P.S. - not everybody who uses a Mac likes it. I have never wanted one despite having used them many times. Why? Because I'm not interested in spending my worktime with something that looks and behaves like a damned TOY. All the cutesy winking icons, swirly action, fiddly tunes - YECCCCHHH. I need to work, not amuse myself with Fischer Price graphics, KTHXBI.
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@ikuiku
[Read the article: Is the way we raise our food giving us MRSA?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Did you read the article? "Why?" Because eating meat isn't the same process anymore.
Yes, man evolved to eat both plants and animals. But that was when he was eating animals that lived in the wild and had to be hunted. They weren't filled with antibiotics, crammed into boxes, terrorized and abused (thus making all those great fear chemicals to fill their flesh with), etc. The animals man evolved eating were healthy creatures that took a lot of effort to bring down, not passive, pathetic lumps of flesh pumped full of poison to make them look even passably edible.
If the kinds of animals we evolved to eat were still around to eat today, then there'd be no problem. But they aren't. Instead, we get offered this stuff that can (and according to more and more researchers, does) kill you. Strangely enough, I and many others think that maybe we aren't supposed to eat SHIT like that.
And that's just the issue of health. There are, of course, whole other issues as well that don't pertain to this discussion.
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@ikuiku
[Read the article: Is the way we raise our food giving us MRSA?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One other thing:
Vegetarianism is only "dull" if you have no imagination or no interest in learning anything about food. I've been vegetarian for a great deal of my adult life, and I've never been bored with my food. Hell, in just one of the cookbooks on my shelf, there are over 500 recipes from all over the world, all of them vegetarian. There are whole cultures of cuisine that are entirely vegetarian.
There's simply no excuse for claiming that this mode of eating is "boring". All it takes is a little change of thought, and most of the time, the effort it takes to look two aisles over in the grocery store. BFD.
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@ikuiku
[Read the article: Is the way we raise our food giving us MRSA?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One other thing:
Vegetarianism is only "dull" if you have no imagination or no interest in learning anything about food. I've been vegetarian for a great deal of my adult life, and I've never been bored with my food. Hell, in just one of the cookbooks on my shelf, there are over 500 recipes from all over the world, all of them vegetarian. There are whole cultures of cuisine that are entirely vegetarian.
There's simply no excuse for claiming that this mode of eating is "boring". All it takes is a little change of thought, and most of the time, the effort it takes to look two aisles over in the grocery store. BFD.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry about the double post. Page loading gummed up for a minute there.
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*shrug*
[Read the article: Prince wants to sue his fans, undo the Internet]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I guess he doesn't like having fans, because he's losing a lot of them over this. Then again, I never did understand what anybody ever saw in that weaselly little man.