Letters to the Editor
Serai1
Published Letters: 551 Editor's Choice: 33
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Thank you
[Read the article: California knows how to regulate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For all those who sniff and scoff at California, this post is a must-read. Yeah, we're not "the heartland". Yeah, we can be kooky and nutty. But we lead the nation on some pretty damned important stuff. The rest of you want a clue? Watch what we do and then follow us.
Because Bush and his cadre of assholes certainly don't give a flying fuck if they leave a polluted sinkhole of a country behind them. For all our supposed craziness, I thank the gods I live here. At least we're sane about the stuff that counts.
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Screw you, Anonymous
[Read the article: Salon readers refuse to go on spending spree]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks to the Asshole in Chief, this female reader will be using her check to do things like pay the electricity bill. It's been YEARS since I could spend such a windfall on frivolous crap. Like a huge number of people in this country, I can't afford to think about luxuries; it's hard enough just to keep my head above water.
But then, what with the hard-on this administration has for waterboarding, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that we're all drowning.
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@katandmoon
[Read the article: What I wouldn't do for my cat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jesus, self-righteous much?
What the hell is it with people who feel they have to jam THEIR beliefs down other people's throats. Look, honey, YOU might be willing and/or able to spend huge amounts of money on your pet, but not everybody sees the world the way you do. Some of us don't have that kind of money AT ALL, to spend on ANYTHING. Yeah, yeah, I know - "then you shouldn't have pets!" Nice. So all those abandoned dogs and cats should just sit in the pound until they get killed rather than spend a few years with someone who'll love them, right? Reminds me of those puffed-up "rescue" people who think it's better to keep a cat in a cage in their "facility" for months rather than let them go to a home that's less than their idea of "perfect".
Folks like you think the love of a pet is priceless, but seem to put no value at all on the love of the HUMAN who takes the cat or dog in. I think if you'd ask the animal whether that love is worth anything, you'd get a different answer. Whether they'd prefer to live a life on the street, or a few weeks crowded in with other strays in a pound, only to die in some unpleasant way, or whether they'd prefer to live with someone who'll feed and shelter and care for them, even if only for a while. I know which one I'd choose. How about you?
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Bwahaha
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just finished three hours of setting up a new computer desk, which also entailed taking apart my computer system and putting it back together. So I totally sympathize with both Binkley AND Opus.
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Uh huh
[Read the article: Which Democrat can beat McCain?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What a pity the candidate most likely to beat McCain got elbowed out by the media, who were more interested in the "glamor" candidates than in someone who really could get the job done.
Oh well. Maybe another eight years of right-wing America-bashing will teach you people to go for substance above glitter. But somehow, I doubt it.
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Pfft
[Read the article: Hey, skinny bitch!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So another dishonest, abusive diet book is on the shelves. This is news? The diet industry is MADE of abuse, in every way. There's nothing healthy about exhorting people to starve themselves in an endless circle of lose-and-gain, lose-and-gain, all the while strangling their metabolisms until it becomes impossible to lose weight. It doesn't matter WHAT you eat, that kind of thing will never, ever work. Unless of course you actually like osteoporosis, liver damage and an enlarged heart. In that case, knock yourself out!
Oh, and the idea that veganism automatically means weight loss - AHAHAHA. Yeah, right. Anyone stupid enough to buy into that deserves what they get. Weight loss is no way to sell a vegan life - it's just as easy to get fat without animal products as with. There are lots of reasons to eschew eating animals, and pretty much any of them are better than the hankering after a skinny ass.
The problem is that all the really good reasons entail caring about other beings, while weight loss is a concern for yourself. If that's why you get into it, it'll be just as fleeting as any other fad diet. A lifelong commitment to veganism (or vegetarianism, for that matter) has to involve a lot more than the selfish desire to look "hot" in a bikini. (Not that I think skinny women look hot. To me they look like what they are - victims of starvation. That's not sexy, that's sick.)
If this is what vegan activists are stooping to these days, I can only find it pathetic and unnecessarily desperate. As the author of this article points out, eating less animal products is catching on already. Why lie when the truth is finally working?
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@Anonymous
[Read the article: Hey, skinny bitch!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]my diet for the past decade has pretty much been vegan except for the meat.
Um...WHAT?
I hate to break this to you, dude, but that's not vegan. It's the lack of meat that makes a vegan diet. Any meat-eater who wants to be healthy will eat "vegan" dishes - salads, pilafs, all kinds of things. Pat yourself on the back that you'll eating well (really, I commend you for that), but don't fool yourself that what you're eating is in any way "vegan". Unless you give up the animal stuff entirely, you're simple eating healthy. No need to pretend you're jumping on a train that you've no interest in riding.
(By the way, I'm not vegan either; just trying to eat healthier like you. No meat, but some other animal stuff. I think it's more important to eat as healthy as possible, no matter what category you're in. To each his own, as they say.)