Letters to the Editor
SB
Published Letters: 378 Editor's Choice: 18
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"I've cheated on everyone I've been with too. And I'm kind of an asshole."
[Read the article: I'm cheating on my husband and loving it. Is that a problem?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, you certainly are. You don't deserve a break any more than Cheater does. Your fiance probably does, though I've noticed that given some time, assholes tend to pair off. So who knows about him. BTW, that crap about protecting him from pain is certainly quite an impressive, steaming load. I think I should go clean my cat's litterbox, I could use a breath of fresh air after this lot.
Cary certainly lifted up a big, slimy rock with this one!
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Another favorite comment...
[Read the article: I'm cheating on my husband and loving it. Is that a problem?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"10) Finally, for every extramarital encounter you have, do something nice for your husband. This is as much for your sake as it is for his. It will keep you emotionally rooted in your marriage."
My mother was (is) an alcoholic. When I was a little kid, she promised that whenever she bought a bottle she'd buy me a toy. Yeah, that worked out great. I felt really loved.
I guess if you don't tell your spouse that you've made this kind of deal with the devil, it works better because...why? If you drop the ball, they don't know anyway?
As others have pointed out, the main problem is THE LYING. Having RULES for lying to your spouse doesn't make it better, just more pathological! Being good at rationalizing your lies just isn't a good thing, mental-health-wise.
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Hey Ubergeeks...
[Read the article: Hitachi hatches a humongous hard drive]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Would this be anything like the difference between powertools that are double-insulated (2 prong plug) and similar ones that are grounded (3 prong)?
No?
Grounding someting to something else does seem to get rid of static.
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Every Sperm is Sacred...
[Read the article: Frozen embryo v. state of California]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0kJHQpvgB8
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Resolutions condemning genocide
[Read the article: Genocide: An inconvenient truth]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe the Turks should respond by passing resolutions condemning pretty much the entire history of American imperialism.... then we can shake hands, agree to play nice from now on, and they can get back to the Kurds, and we can get back to whatever the hell we're doing in Iraq.
Hey, anyone been reading Doonesbury lately ....?
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I've always wondered...
[Read the article: Housing starts: How low can they go?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]where do all these people come from to live in these new houses? Where did they live before, and what happens to their previous residences? New houses, year after year after year.... usually on prime farmland. So, every year... more people, less farmland....
It seems that nobody who has any say in these matters is doing the math.
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Fail safe?
[Read the article: Nuclear war on YouTube ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The main problem with nuclear power is that it isn't fail safe, as I see it. Even if each step is relatively safe, WHEN (not if, ALL technology breaks sometime) it fails anywhere along the line it results in a huge mess. Even if the nuke biz had a great safety record, which it doesn't, it would be virtually impossible to guarantee that record indefinitely.
I personally like PV solar. Manufacturing the panels isn't any worse than manufacturing other stuff, and once installed they work reliably for decades. Really, how does that compare to manufacturing nuclear fuel rods? Can anyone argue that dead solar panels are anywhere near as hazardous as spent fuel rods? Please do if you can, I'd like to hear it.
I just can't compare the worst case scenario of a nuclear plant failure to the worst case of all the solar panels in CA failing. Nor can I compare the imaginable disasters of the support industries required for nuclear power to those required for solar power.
The argument that nuclear power can be made safe just doen't fly because the thing at the heart of it, fission, is inherently unsafe and humans have yet to invent a technology that doesn't break.
Maybe it would help to think of solar power as safe nuclear power: we have a nearly perfect fusion reactor and it's 93 million miles away. All we have to do is collect the energy. Granted, in about 500 million years its output will increase and make life on earth extremely difficult, and in a few billion years it will become a red giant, but we're pretty much wedded to the Sun anyway, we ought to make the most of it.
By the way - 'Let's let China try it first to see if it's safe' is a laughably bad argument for pretty much anything.
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One more thing...
[Read the article: Nuclear war on YouTube ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If I catch any terrorists throwing rocks at the solar panels on my roof, I'll deal with them myself. I think I'll do a better job of that than our wonderful gummint does looking after our nukes
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WTF?
[Read the article: Our office manager is a dental despot!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Huggins, why the F are you posting multiple replies to a column you don't think is worth reading? Go bother some pit bulls or something.
As for the dental assistant, I'd advise the most acidly polite NO you can come up with. "Is there a reason Dr. Payne's ad budget is being laundered through my paycheck? Hmm.... well since you've failed to process the corresponding raise, your odd scheme will have to wait."
Or something else that a cranky Miss Manners would come up with. And start job hunting.
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As we used to say...
[Read the article: The burning question]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, duh!
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Rocking?
[Read the article: Bronzer gods]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Kibum Kim - Did you just use the word "rocking" in the way I think you did? (... are drawing notice for rocking suspiciously ruddy glows offstage) If so, that's it; you're fired. You aren't allowed to be a professional writer anymore. Don't even try. You aren't even allowed to write for TV.
And, no, Zac Efron's love of "mancake" foundation and "guyliner" does NOT put him on the edge of a new men's makeup breakthrough, it just means HE'S A FLAMING NARCISSIST.
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Another video blog
[Read the article: Of working women, handbags and cosmetics]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]to avoid. I don't like talking heads. That's one reason I like to READ Salon. READ. Got it? READ. I'll READ the transcript if provided, but I ain't gonna watch. Sorry.
Would I be correct in guessing that there's a lovely car ad for me to watch first?
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and Jesus...
[Read the article: This Modern World ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]we ARE all heathens, you know.