Letters to the Editor
Mike B.
Published Letters: 18 Editor's Choice: 3
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A silly article, and so far, a bunch of silly letters
[Read the article: How strong is the Democratic presidential field?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What is the point of this article and thread? To point out that all presidential candidates, through the echoing corridors of time, will have potentially damaging flaws? Don't stop the presses.
Any of the Democratic candidates (save Gravel and Kucinich) can win. I will personally kick anyone in the teeth who says otherwise, because they're actually doing what the Republicans constantly accuse us of--giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Some candidates will have an easier time of winning than others, but will any of the top-tier Democrats face an uphill battle against any of the top-tier Republicans? At best the GOP can hope to scrape out a tiny victory in the face of a horrendous war and piles of scandals.
Will everyone please stop being an idiot? There are always going to be caveats and concerns, but this remains our race to lose, and I'd prefer we didn't lose it by insisting we're doomed from the outset.
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Ugh.
[Read the article: My girlfriend tried cocaine at a party! She was drunk! Oh my God!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I got angry at someone I was seeing for using drugs exactly once. He had gone into the bathroom and snorted coke without telling me during our date, and one likes a little bit of warning.
Beyond that--LW needs to move to Utah and find some nice girl who's never touched alcohol and is saving herself for marriage and homemaking. Because that's what it is, right? Horror that the woman he loves has a mind of her own and won't just adopt whatever arbitrary moral code he's set for himself?
I don't do drugs, but come on. Someone who is well-adjusted and clearly addicted to nothing stronger than coffee clearly deserves all the slack in the world. A man who can't give it to her has issues that he needs to deal with before he casts a disapproving eye.
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Battles of will are always such fun.
[Read the article: I let my friends stay with me and now they're evicting me!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's probably for the best that it's so difficult to evict people--we don't want our landlords changing the locks while we're at work because the rent's an hour late and their nephews are itching to move in--but it makes for some serious hassles when people want to abuse the situation.
If the LW's tolerance for surly housemates and newborn infants is high, he could ride it out until they've had enough. The couple deserves no better (legally, assuming he's on the lease, or otherwise) and the baby won't notice. I'd do it, personally, because I love my apartment and moving's such a hassle, but then I'm a stubborn prick. Someone as sweet-natured as the LW will probably prefer to cut his losses--which will inevitably include these two friends, who are probably cutting their entire old lives loose to become parents anyway.
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Is there any actual advice in this entire response?
[Read the article: How can I ditch my bitchy friend now that she has cancer?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sheesh.
The simple answer is yes, you have to continue to be her friend. She's likely not going to live much longer, and she isn't one of the most important people in your life, so it's not as though this is an undue burden. See her occasionally and suck it up--you'll be glad you did when you're on your own deathbed and lots of people come to see you, a few no doubt out of a sense of duty.
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Seriously...
[Read the article: Another election fiasco in Florida?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...how many people would object if a meteor were to hit Florida and banish it forever from the earth? Even those of us with friends and family down there would probably think it a worthy sacrifice.
Something is fucking wrong with that state, always determined to ruin things for everyone.
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Cary needn't have gone further than the first sentence.
[Read the article: Cops arrested my partner for felony heroin possession]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Her recovery does not depend on you. Your presence in her life may or may not make her recovery easier, but that's irrelevant--this is a situation she brought on herself, and it's a problem she will have to solve for herself. And what kind of relationship are you going to have with her now, anyway? One where you always have to wonder what she's doing behind your back? Get on with your own life.
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I'd be all for giving this strip a chance...
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...except writing a strip is not like making a TV series. With a series, it might take a few episodes for the elements to gel, but the creators/studio/network don't have the luxury of throwing those episodes out at a cost of some millions of dollars.
They absolutely do have that luxury in this case. There are probably several alternate versions of each of these strips that are even shittier. (Unless writer and/or artist are so inept that it takes them the full week to produce even this much.)
This might have sounded like an interesting change of pace when it was pitched, but the creators have shown little understanding of the form they're working in, and they're simply not improving. If they're capable of doing more with this strip, they have to demonstrate as much immediately--there's no excuse. There are plenty of artists out there who could step up to the plate and instantly create something that meets with a generally positive reaction, so how can Salon continue to justify printing the work of artists who might someday become good? This ain't a workshop.
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What I'm wondering:
[Read the article: I'm a busy single mom and I just don't want to date]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why do people send letters to Cary that contain so many details that they'll be instantly recognized by anyone who knows them--say, the "lazy, abusive shit" of an ex? I've often thought that these situations can't possibly end well.
As for the letter itself, I don't get it. She doesn't want to date. BFD. I don't want to date very often myself, and so I don't. Other times I do. Sometimes I eat cookie dough out of the tube. I don't feel any need to ask Cary to validate these decisions. So her mother's bugging her--that's why most of us eventually stop listening to our mothers on such matters.