Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 378 Editor's Choice: 18
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[Read the article: The politics of not nice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]By the way, I also coughed up $75 for Edwards yesterday, and I'll probably do another round. And I'm NOT someone who gives money to politicians.
Think of it as the money I was never going to spend on Salon Premium anyway!
Anyone else with any inclination to do so, now's the time...
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Oh Boy!
[Read the article: A Democratic donnybrook]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"it is difficult afterwards to recall much that Obama said, but he consistently seemed in command while saying it."
Just the kind of politician I like to vote for!
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How About
[Read the article: How to solve America's water problems]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fewer People? Just, you know, not so many millions of Homo Sapiens alive all at once. Seems like the simple answer to an awful lot of problems, the water one especially.
What's that, God TOLD you to have 7 kids? Maybe you could double check that, and make absolutely sure that's God talking while you're at it. I'm pretty sure God LIKES some of his other critters, and doesn't need us running them out of house & home to make room for more of our own bawling brats.
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"Uncontrolled capitalist development is over"
[Read the article: How to solve America's water problems]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh, I don't know. You know what they say about the Capitalist selling you the rope to hang him with....? Meanwhile he's cutting down the tree you were planning to hang him from.
When there's no more rope and no more trees, maybe then uncontrolled capitalist development will be over.
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I skipped straight to the letters section...
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]don't really need to read the comic anyway, eating paper towels is much more fun.
(I'm out of aluminum foil)
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By the way...
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was just wondering, is there a singing-telegram-like service that will deliver flaming bags of dog poop in the New York City area?
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45 percent of partiers were there to have fun?
[Read the article: Study: College girls boozier and sluttier than ever]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"They found, shockingly, that 45 percent of partiers were there to have fun. Yes, fun."
So 55% of partiers don't go to parties to have fun? Why are they there, then? Social obligation? When I was that age, fun was the point.
I don't know what to say about women going to parties in their underwear. I'll go way, way out on a limb and say that sounds like they're just asking for trouble from drunken fratboys (and sorogirls). Everything from magic marker decoration to embarrassing photography to rape becomes easier when the victim has already undressed themself.
I work in a college art department in the bay area, and I don't think the students behave quite like this. Maybe art students are just a little more creative in their debauchery. When I was one, we were.
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Equality can be tough
[Read the article: Women need johns]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As long as there's the same number of toilets (of whatever specification) and sinks and janitor visits, I'm not going to worry about it. Maybe women should wear less complicated underwear? Maybe they should have gone before they left the house? Maybe they should practice peeing standing up? If so many women don't know what's up with women and women's bathrooms, I don't suppose I ever will. Never mind.
Anyway, what's up with the headline? Women need JOHNS? To help address the gender/wage gap? Is Mr. K cranky about something today?
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Music:
[Read the article: My molester financed my college education]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Music for Egon Schiele" by Rachel's
I'm not sure why I think it would help, but I think it would.
I'd introduce you to my therapist if I could, but you'll find one. Hang in there, you'll get better.
Click on the SB for a link to the CD if you're interested.
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Actually...
[Read the article: Staph infections: The right call]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Now if somebody starts using terms like "gross" and "disgusting" to describe somebody else's taste in sex acts (or food), they are at a minimum being (1) narrow minded, and (2) rude."
I can't say I agree. There are certain sex acts and foods that broadness of mind simply can't excuse. (IMHO) Eating mammal brains, however common, has a high enough likelihood of transmitting a prion disease (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), Kuru, Scrapie, etc.) the prognoses of which are sufficiently grim, that I have no problem calling it gross. I will embrace my ethnocentrism and say that developing Kuru because one has eaten the brains of one's vanquished enemy is definitely gross, and I don't feel in the least bit rude saying so.
Pedophilia and necrophilia I will also unabashedly call gross and disgusting without fear of offending pedophiles and necrophiles. I will go out on a limb and say that having a diarrhea fetish is also pretty disgusting. I guess if no one gets hurt it's not my problem.....it just seems to me that it's a good way to spread disease.
Things that are demonstrably likely to spread disease are by definition gross and disgusting!
Pardon me for saying so.
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Just wondering...
[Read the article: The abortion doctor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]what would happen if she were to put on a mask of, say, Orrin Hatch or another one of those forked-tongue devils while reading the official lies...
Is it still legal to mock politicians?