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Isn't this what vibrators and gay male friends combine to fulfill?
But seriously.
My impression is that this woman isn't interested in physical intimacy at all, not just sex. The "intellectual" aspects of flirting, yes. But not the physical reality of another human body (note the fart comment).
Hey, I'm with Single Man. Hardly an issue that justifies hand-wringing.
An obvious hypocrite has been caught at his own game. Period.
Does it really matter in any significant way which nation's airline gets us to Africa?
Feeling. Very. Sleepy.
zzz.
Totally, delightfully, 100% on the mark, Cary.
...what Coco wrote.
Only among the privileged is graduate school some sort of back-up plan for getting on with life. And, with due respect to Cary, "writer" isn't far behind.
One could argue that the world does not currently face a shortage of attorneys, MBAs, CPAs, stockbrokers, web designers, or writers of any type (but most especially 20-somethings itching to share their profound insight via fiction).
There *is* a worldwide shortage of doctors. Not the American doctor and his country-club membership, nor the Canadian doctor and her whining about not making it rich like she expected, but doctors willing to treat those who need them most.
So, how about med school?
Not enough hard science in college? Then how about nursing school? Paramedic training? Pharmacist?
Something tells me that in the end upper-middle-class income and comforts will trump all for this young lady.
Back to the ad agency grindstone, eh?
The notion that unions are necessary to protect workers from exploitation died out about 40 years ago, didn't it?
Oops--wait. There's WalMart. And McDonalds. And a host of other corporations squeezing the blood out of their workforces.
Yet there's something fundamentally unfair about the guild approach--which is what we're facing with pilots, doctors, CPAs, longshoremen, and other workers whose entry into and advancement within their vocations are controlled by workers who got there before them.
There's a shortage of doctors in Canada. Why? Canadian doctors who are already employed continue to do their best to deny medical licenses to otherwise-qualified immigrants. Why? To protect their salaries. A glut of doctors, after all, would only benefit everyone *except* doctors. ( And then they bitch anyway about high patient loads and low incomes.)
Want to practice accountancy in New Zealand? With your 20 years' experience in France, it should be a snap to be licensed, you say. Sorry, but non.
"Seniority" as a basis for increased pay or privileged job placement or scheduling deserves to die, whatever the job. Qualifications should be based on tested or demonstrated merit, and compensation made accordingly.
Oh, what a socialist idea! Surely I'll end up on an FBI watch-list now.
If this is the material coming in this week, imagine the hilarity surely to ensue on April 1st.
The Onion meets Salon...
WIFE'S EARTH MOM TOGS TURN EX-HUBBY HOMO
Custody of Leather Chaps Sought by Both
Sandra wrote:
"...the question is: if I want gay men - or anyone, really - to stop hitting on me, then why do I invite it?"
Um, and how is this not an example of (not so) repressed homosexual desire?
Call it closeted, call it repressed, call it a prank letter. However you slice this one, it tastes like a rainbow waiting to shine.
Appalling dreck like this piece, which can only prompt a loud, "Oh, who bloody CARES" from any sentient being, seems to be Salon's exiting new future.
I think I'll go back to enduring the vodka and imported car ads. I wouldn't pay for this silliness in print; I certainly won't continue paying for it online.
Amazing that any later American president could be compared unfavourably to Herbert Hoover, yet here we are.
Another splendid essay. Thank you.
I think Cary missed the real question with this one.
It takes only a few seconds on Google to find a multitude of links on the writer's putative topic.
This sounds like another version of, "I want to quite my soul-deadening job but don't know how." (And its corollary, "Am I wrong to want this?")
Why does the writer feel compelled to pull up stakes and move on to a new identity, in effect, every two or three years? That's an issue deserving of introspection, not the apparent (bordering on incredible) inability to find moving-to-France help on the web.
1. He's cheating on his wife.
2. He'll cheat on you.
3. There is zero possibility that any of this would end happily if not broken off now.
Oh, how terribly not witty!
This kid was not victimized.
Nor have we read yet how he plans to distribute his gains to worthy charitable causes.
What's surprising is that the sex-phobic GOP wasn't all over this from the start. Maybe a senator or, say, a DHS official turned up on that credit card list, wot.
Seems to me that a break-up or two tends to add to our stock of life experience, with increased wisdom a by-product. (On the other hand, someone who's working on number five or six is probably a slow-learner.)
In any case, if I weren't likely to go to prison for doing it, I'd whack every tassel-loafered, cellphone-yakking, sharp-elbowed ass I could, preferably with a large enough brick to put them out for a good long time. Garrison hints at who you are, Donald Trump-wanna-be's and your 12 million neighbors.
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder" isn't news, but being reminded of it so delightfully is always welcome.
Given their rabid attempts to pin false obstruction of justice charges on Bill Clinton via Sidney Blumenthal in 1998-99, the GOP's silence on an *actual* case of leaking, smearing, and obstruction of justice is, what...thundering? Deafening? Earsplitting?
Wait! We just need Christopher Hitchens to pipe-up that he had lunch with Scooter, who leaked Plame's name (adding that she was a "stalker" for good measure,) and *that* will get the impeachment ball rolling!
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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