Letters to the Editor
hermesloin
Published Letters: 53 Editor's Choice: 18
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Unpaved Paradise
[Read the article: Forget the Haight and Woodstock]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It was just two days ago that I was educating my boss about the mythology of Joni Mitchell's time in Laurel Canyon and her "Blue" album. I was introduced to Joni Mitchell in college through a "Women in Pop Music" course offered as an elective through the music school. Our professor, a spunky Irish woman, play "All I Want" and gave the class a brief rundown of Mitchell's career. Immediately after the class let out that day, I made a bee-line to the local music store to buy the album. While at the music store I bumped into a fellow classmate who had the same idea in mind. We were both so enthralled by the thumping guitar and journey-like tale of the first track off of "Blue." I often think of Patricia Clarkson's character from Six Feet Under as a modern-day Joni Mitchell. An artist who lives in the canyon (albeit Topanga, not Laurel) who smokes pot and makes art and gets high on the crisp mountain air. We're captive on the carousel of time indeed.
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Serioulsy?
[Read the article: Hurricane Al]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From the article:
"If there's no hope at all, there's also no point in listening to this strange, portly man drone on in his slightly put-on Tennessee accent (remember, he was mostly raised in a Washington hotel suite) about rising ocean temperatures and melt rates in central Greenland. It's difficult to imagine that "An Inconvenient Truth" will change many Americans' views on global warming."
This is the same article that links to a story about how we need to put aside pessimism if we're going to have a chance of making a difference. I wonder if Fox News would say something to toxicly dismissive about John McCain or any other leading Republican... I highly doubt it.
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Bad kids are fun.... to watch!
[Read the article: Spare the quarter-inch plumbing supply line, spoil the child]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I love watching other people's kids misbehave. It's so damn entertaining! What is so wrong about a child that openly defies their parents? Unless it's a safety concern (don't run out in the street), it seems to me like a power struggle where the parent gets to resort to their physical advantage over the child by finally spanking them when nothing else will make the child back down. My best friend growing up had a mom who was determined not to let her son get the best of her. Over 20 years of asserting her will over his and metaphorically body slamming him anytime he disagreed with her (no matter how trifaling a matter) he's now thoroughly messed up (in my opinion) and has dropped out of college to become a Catholic monk. Now his mom fears that he's thrown his life away, but she no longer has anyway to control him. Even withholding her approval doesn't work b/c she already played out that card.