Letters to the Editor
jebldmm
Published Letters: 933 Editor's Choice: 164
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It's not about sexuality, it's about trust
[Read the article: Should I tell my new man that I used to date women?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Do you want to have a relationship with somebody you can't trust with a not-so-terrible secret about your past? Do you want to live your life feeling as if there is a secret that, if exposed, could destroy your relationship? I wouldn't. I could tell my husband anything about my past. I don't tell him everything, but I know that I could tell him and he wouldn't stop loving me. I don't think it matters if you tell this guy you're bisexual - but I think it matters very much that you don't trust him enough to tell him. I'd mention it now, simply because if I didn't I'd be afraid that at some point we'd meet an old friend who would reveal the information in ways I couldn't control (i.e. I thought I recognized your wife from a party, but that can't be her because the woman I met only dated women).
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I saw the video...
[Read the article: Kerry responds to Taser incident]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...and I'm still not sure what happened. Obviously the "victim" was being removed by the police. But was he an innocent victim of police brutality or an attention-seeking protester who made more of a fuss than he needed to in order to gain sympathy? All of the cries of "help me" seemed a bit exaggerated. The guy wasn't being carted off to Guantanemo, but you wouldn't know that based on his actions. At the same time, though, I never saw whatever triggered the police to start moving him outside. Did they have a reason at all, or was it just an irrational reaction to somebody who was too loud and too agitated and spoke too long? One of the biggest problems with the home video era is that we get stories, but we don't get the whole story. Something happened before the video started, and we don't know what it was. What we see on the video is confusing. I don't imaging that Kerry's view was any less confusing. In fact, it was probably more so.
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Western Nevada COUNTY
[Read the article: Lumber, housing, and the high-flying loonie]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's in California, northeast of Sacramento, north of Auburn (Placer County). The eastern edge of Nevada County does reach to Nevada, but it's a long, narrow county, so we don't visit Nevada often.
Construction in this area has been especially hard hit by the bubble busting, because Placer and Sacramento Counties were major bubble areas and had huge increases in construction over the last few years. Some of the construction companies have moved onto business construction, but there are still a lot of hungry contracters.
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Breastfeeding is an intimate act
[Read the article: Bill Maher: "Don't show me your tits!" ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's not the same as eating a bowl of soup. It's a baby sucking on a mother's nipple. It's a very intimate act between a mother and a baby. Being exposed to intimate acts between strangers makes a lot of people uncomfortable. While I support breastfeeding in public, I agree that it should be done discreetly, not because it is dirty but because it is private. I expect the same discretion for other private acts - like lovers showing affection, or couple's fighting, or parent's disciplining children. We've sort of blurred the line between "private" and "public", to the point that a lot of people think that it's okay to let the whole world see their private moments. But that doesn't mean that the whole world actually wants to see them. If this woman had enough prescience to have a copy of the law handy, it seems to me that she could have thought ahead and brought a light blanket along, too. That way she could have fed her baby AND not offended other patrons of the restaurant. Wouldn't that be the best for everybody?
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I hope that next time Move On does better
[Read the article: Profiles in Democratic cowardice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This was a stupid, petty, childish ad. It distracted American's from the real issues at hand - the failure in Iraq and the need to do something about it. I can see no way in which a childish name rhyme will convince a wavering politician to change their mind. It can only serve to make the people who criticize Petraeus look shallow and foolish. If this is the best Move On can do, liberals are in trouble. I wish that the entire congress had voted to criticize it so that we could all move on.
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It's a tiny board with a battery on it
[Read the article: Is Star Simpson's "fake bomb" just an art jacket?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I would think that people who were planning on blowing something up would 1) be a bit more subtle and 2) BE A BIT MORE SUBTLE. This scares me, not because of the civil rights implications, but because it shows that guards are apparently stupid enough to be distracted by a bit of dazzle. All a terrorist would have to do to get by security would be to send a decoy in with a nite brite so that security would be too busy to notice them.
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@welcomerain
[Read the article: Condors vs. the NRA]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Could you please explain how exactly this bill will be even a "start" at some kind of gun control? I don't see how regulating the type of ammunition will limit gun ownership or hunting. The fact that some liberals don't like hunting is irrelevant. They aren't going to get any kind of limits on hunting through this bill. However... if word gets out to the public that hunting is damaging the environment, then things might change. I can forsee a referendum about eliminating hunting in Condor habitat in the future. Hunters can prevent this right now by simply switching ammo.
Oh... and not all liberals hate hunting. I work with a lot of hunters, and they are easier on the environment than many non-hunters. Various hunting groups, like Ducks Unlimited, have benefited the environment more than a lot of environmental groups. Personally, I don't understand the appeal of getting up at 4 in the morning to go tramping around in the cold with a heavy weapon, but I can't criticize them just because I don't understand it.