Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 388 Editor's Choice: 18
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I wouldn't say Fraud...
[Read the article: I feel like a fraud: I'm an unmarried marriage counselor!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But if you can't even write a letter to an advice columnist that properly explains your situation, I can't say you've inspired confidence here. Do you let your clients gloss over major areas of detail when they're explaining their situation to you? I mean, have you EVER been in a long term relationship? What happened? Why? If you can actually explain how and why, well that's one thing. If you have no clue, that's another. To me, you sound like you should BE IN therapy for a while before offering it to anyone.
Sorry, but am I going to go to a mechanic who doesn't have a car and when he does, can't keep it running? No.
Maybe someone should play the 'fake letter' card now...
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Astroturf.
[Read the article: I'm a condo parking-spot hoarder!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And a beach chair, and a plant. What would be called a site-specific installation in the art world.
Some pink flamingos, maybe a cooler, maybe a 'no lifeguard on duty' sign. All easily fold-up-able when company comes.
Condo owners ass'n's can be a bitch, though...
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Interesting Juxtaposition
[Read the article: My name is Jane, and I'm a drunkorexic]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I couldn't help noticing that the previous headline reads: "This just in: Women are stupid!"
Coincidence? Someone at Salon's sick sense of humor? I should try to remember to stay away from Broadsheet, the frequent inadvertent vapidity is just too much.
The department at the college where I work is mostly female, and these young women are mostly pretty sensible. I know their reaction to this for the most part would be: "That's retarded!" (in pretty much those words exactly; I can almost hear them saying it) And I agree.
So I would say those silly buzzwords DO make light of a serious sickness. I would also say that Broadsheet makes light of serious everything, so whatever the opposite of dumbing something down is, um, please try it. And, um, please stop using interjections that any decent ninth grade english teacher would frown upon.
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Seriously, though...
[Read the article: My name is Jane, and I'm a drunkorexic]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's pretty much beyond me that this is an actual phenomenon. The degree to which people in this society are ungrounded scares me, and I don't know what to begin to say about it.
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Or wearing a flag pin and carrying a bible, same difference
[Read the article: Flag pins are for losers -- literally]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis.
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Finally...
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The toilet gets flushed? Need we hold our noses no longer? I can only hope it's true. I intend to have the forks removed from my eyes this week, so it had better not return.
Schlesinger, Bachtell: Your work on this strip was utterly unredeemable excrement. I would say you should be ashamed of yourselves, but you are obviously without shame.
As for anonymous signatures not being allowed anymore, that was both announced and explained.
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I never understood why some of you found it necessary to rip this strip to shreds......
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why? Aside from the fact that it's aggressively awful; there are many excellent comics out there that deserve the space based on merit, and many of us suspect that Kansas O'Flatulence was given space based on something other than merit.
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Piling on...
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I couldn't help but think of the quote - "This is not a book that should be tossed lightly aside. It should be hurled with great force." - Dorothy Parker
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Tina Fey
[Read the article: Women ARE funny. And foxy!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is definitely hot. Even without saying anything. Being funny, brilliant and charming when she does say something only adds to the effect, of course.
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Men's hours?
[Read the article: Women-only workouts]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'll charitably assume that they've established equal Men-only hours, although it wasn't mentioned. Wouldn't they have to? I mean, if you're going to have separate, you have to have equal, right? And then, what about those men (and women) who feel that their religion frowns upon them working out in the presence of gay men (or women)? Mustn't they then establish gay hours at the gym? Oh, and also.....
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men had to swim nude in the indoor pool
[Read the article: Women-only workouts]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Men HAD to swim nude in the indoor pool?
Men HAD to swim nude in the indoor pool??
How very manly.
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LeCastor, calm down
[Read the article: Women-only workouts]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And don't be such a nitwit. Bees didn't misrepresent anything, in fact he posted a link to a BBC story that said exactly what you said as a rebuttal to his supposed misrepresentation.
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Agreed.
[Read the article: Women-only workouts]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"hope to see you as outraged about this as you are about the Muslim gym thing."
If they're going to such lengths to cater to the religious nuts (a redundancy, in my opinion) they should go without federal funding.
I think the whole extreme Kosher thing is too much. Do the plates still have kooties after they've been through a hight-temp modern automatic dishwasher? Really? If you're gonna take it that far, you're nuts. Anyone who claims that their superstitions are in fact orders from God, and rather involved and specific orders at that, is crazy. Of course, maybe we'd then need to accommodate the religious nuts because they're mentally ill...
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Off Topic but...
[Read the article: The great homeowner equity depression]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"predatory towing practices" - HA!
Here in San Francisco if/when the cops find your stolen car, they 'll give you about 20 minutes to pick it up after they call you, after which they'll have it towed and you start immediately incurring outrageous charges. If you're lucky, signing the car's title over to the city so they can auction it off will cover the charges.
http://tinyurl.com/2el7lm
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No.
[Read the article: Ask Pablo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There are WAY more than enough humans around for the next few decades.
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This is much more efficient!
[Read the article: Killing ourselves in Afghanistan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Than funding one group as they fight our 'enemy', then when they 'win' and turn against us, funding a new opponent to fight our former ally.
This should cut years off the time it takes to lay waste to the area and get everyone to hate us!
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Does it matter
[Read the article: The tragic fall of Eliot Spitzer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]that the prostitute was female?
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Fortune cookies
[Read the article: How the fortune cookie crumbles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]are from Japan, more or less.
They ran into Chinese food here, though.