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Published Letters: 423 Editor's Choice: 19
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You can't fix stupid
[Read the article: College news roundup]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is my favorite expression these days. These first two items just encourage that sort of thinking on my part. Underlying the problems in both items is plain old stupidity. How did these people get into college in the first place? They don't seem to be doing much thinking for themselves.
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Lorem ipsum...
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
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Still waiting...
[Read the article: "Their 40s just seemed to sneak up on them"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm 43 and I've never had kids, I don't know how my 'swimmers' are doing these days.
I'm still waiting for the whole species extinction, global warming, deforestation, desertification, overpopulation, environmental destruction, hell-in-a-handbasket thing to work itself out before I have kids. I just don't have the heart to explain the slowly unfolding Armageddon to my little ones, I'd hate to disappoint them like that.
I figure by the time I'm 80 or so it'll be obvious how things are going to turn out. Maybe I should freeze some now, just in case everything turns out peachy?
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Therapy.
[Read the article: How to explain my husband to my kids?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]NOW. And no crap about it. NOW. A good therapist who will kick his self pitying ass should do the trick. His brain chemistry is probably only 25% of the problem. Growing up is probably the other 75%.
If you really have to explain this to the kids, maybe it should be in the context of why daddy had to move out...
I know, I'm harsh. But having grown up with an alcoholic parent and being prone to moodiness myself (I've even done the fingers thru the hair anguish thing myself) I think I'm entitled to my opinion. Good luck.
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Well isn't that special!
[Read the article: "Their 40s just seemed to sneak up on them"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"2) Perhaps one of the chidren being born today will SOLVE the enviromental/energy crisis. It's obvious no one alive today is able to. Perhaps it's YOUR child who will do it!"
That's what my mom told me when I started to develop an environmental consciousness, many years ago. Well, good news folks, I did indeed find the answer!
Ready? OK, everybody:
STOP BREEDING LIKE RABBITS, STOP BUYING TONS OF CRAP YOU DON'T NEED, STOP USING VAST AMOUNTS OF ENERGY AND STOP EATING MEAT!
There, now wasn't that easy?
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(Ahem...)
[Read the article: Go green this holiday season]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Good old Used Rubber USA has been doing pretty much the same thing as Alchemy since 1984, here in San Francisco. If you're a REAL librul, you'll check out UR, the company was started by a woman artist 21 years before the Seattle hipster dude came up with the same idea. You sure the Alchemy guy really came up with the idea on his own, or maybe just recycled it? No matter.
http://www.usedrubberusa.com/
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Bike to work?
[Read the article: Desperate times, desperate scientists]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So how many of you are going to bike to work tomorrow?
All of you! That's GREAT!
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20 miles a day
[Read the article: Desperate times, desperate scientists]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]on a bike, is not very much. Bike lanes, and a slight dress code accommodation, and it's easy. You would be SO fit too. I don't know about doing it in Atlanta, but then Atlanta doesn't seem like a good place for anything.
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Run
[Read the article: I left an abusive marriage, and now I'm in love with a thief]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Away from him.
Fast.
If this is what you fall in love with, stay single and get a cat. And a therapist.
Run. Now!
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The Hijab is inherently oppressive
[Read the article: Girl murdered over hijab?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and well, stupid.
There, I said it.
I look down on pretty much all stupid religious clothing. I can't really think of any I don't consider stupid, I just have no patience for any of it. A person's deeds proclaim volumes about the state of their soul; they say all that needs to be said about one's spiritual state.
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"Let's have a presidential debate on science: Can any of the candidates lead America back to the head of the class in science and technology?"
[Read the article: Let's have a presidential debate on science]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's a good one!
Ha!
Ha!!
Ya got me with that one!
Tell the one about the leprechaun and the nun again!
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I've never heard her sing
[Read the article: Flirting with disaster]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and my YECCH! reaction to her keeps me from wanting to. My loss, I guess.
I became allergic to addicts and alcoholics after a while. Again, my loss, I guess.
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TheoCons!
[Read the article: Huckabee and criminals: It's worse than just Wayne DuMond]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"i'll answer your questions after you tell me what it is about the united states that produces so many criminals and so many politicians."
I dunno, but my new word for them is theocons.
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two things
[Read the article: Kitchen gadgets: The "Egg McMuffin" machine]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A. This sounds like yet another piece of junk that no one really needs. Ridiculous, wasteful, made-in-china landfill fodder.
B. Farhad, get a real job. You clearly have too much time on your hands.
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A couple of things...
[Read the article: Kitchen gadgets: The "Egg McMuffin" machine]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As evidenced by the comments of a couple of other readers, this device is indeed another junk gadget - when used by actual consumers it's likely to break within a year, after which one will presumably buy the new and improved version which is only slightly better made. The key thing to note is that that's how the universe of marketed gadgetry works.
Farhad has a platform, and the intelligence, to go well beyond 'get one' and actually discuss the larger question. I've never been especially fond of CR, I don't think their analyses are as thoughtful as they might be, but they do (sort of) test things for durability. Farhad didn't seem to say anything about that, nor did he test the bacon warming feature, nor did he ask why there isn't a bacon cooking feature. If he's going to try to do Consumer Reports, well OK, but he'll have to test things a little more rigorously. I don't think he should do that, though. I read Machinist for actual intelligent analysis of the tech world. I don't want cotton-candy gadget infomercials!
If he's going to take an often insightful column into the shady realm of journalism-as-infomercial, I think I (and any other readers) have the right/responsibility/privilege/whatever to CALL HIM ON IT. And if I choose to use the venerable linguistic device of snark to do so, that too is my privilege.
If Salon isn't going to censor the poster to 'Since you asked' who regularly advocates Murder, I really doubt they'll censor me for being snarky!