Letters to the Editor
Vickiesq
Published Letters: 36 Editor's Choice: 3
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Best timesaver for the working parent
[Read the article: What you missed while watching the new "Bionic Woman"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please keep supplying the debate digests. They afford me two more hours to slap together a meal, supervise homework, and still catch The Daily Show and Colbert. And Clinton's wardrobe offers tips for my own work life. I don't mind in the least the comments about how much more refreshing she looks than the suits, distinguished only by a red or blue tie.
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Ick!
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just watched "Aliens in America," the one that gets its yucks from gay-bashing and in which two high school bullies simulate anal sex. Yeah, that's I what I want to watch with my 13-year-old son. Cameron Crowe references are not enough to make up for tasteless vulgarity. We will NOT be tuning in--even to watch Scott Patteron's effort to have a post-"Gilmore Girls" career.
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Working parents
[Read the article: The whole "working mother" thing actually works]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Both my grandmothers were divorced when their children were young. They got no financial support. They worked. My mother stayed at home initially but worked when my younger brother started school. When she was divorced when we were adults, my mother was well-established in her career. I have always worked, except for eight-weeks maternity leave, and when my stay-at-home husband left us, we were better off financially. Any parent who stays at home should factor in the certainty of economic loss and the real possibility of divorce, illness, or death disrupting your plans. Whether you or your children are happier or not probably cannot be known. But families will be more economically secure if parents work.
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No more sales "parties"!
[Read the article: The whole "working mother" thing actually works]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"All sorts of pyramid schemes like Amway, Shaklee, Koscot and other selling from home scams target those unfulfilled mothers."
I am glad this was mentioned. I am heartily tired of being invited to candle-cookware-scrapbook parties on school/work nights and being solicited to buy overpriced junk and, even worse, to host my own party. I would also like to encourage working in the office and not working at home. I like the clear division between the two spheres. When I'm at home, I'm guilt free and I prefer it that way.
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I like the first paragraph...
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...of this piece because it seems like an apt description of the characters in "The Wire" and their tremendous longing to get somewhere, anywhere else in their lives. The denizens of Baltimore create one another's Sartrean hell but I am still compelled to watch the awful and the inevitable unfold. Isn't that what tragedy is about--"the imitation of an action, serious, complete and of a certain magnitude, effecting the proper emotions of pity and catharsis..."
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The Spider Web
[Read the article: TV Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I watched this show with my 13-year-old son who is not yet completely immersed in internet culture. The odd thing was that, even though the show presented mostly the dark side of the cyber world, my son seemed to feel vindicated. It demonstrated to him that other teenagers have a host of "friends" they've never met. And then he showed me a website where he posts and it was rather reassuring to read some kids chatting about the stuff of their lives in fairly sensible decent ways without hostility (and certainly a great deal kinder than some of the exchanges I've observed on Salon.) I do think the show could have gone farther and addressed how computers seem to be replacing real life, just like Ray Bradbury foretold in "Fahrenheit 451," a prescient novel these kids will never read. Maybe it's called the Web because of how it entraps you.
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The best of times
[Read the article: A farewell note]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You said so much so concisely and so quickly. I feel immense gratitude for your efforts.
I'm glad you didn't go back to being a California lawyer. There are too many of us already, some of whom wish they were having as much fun as you seem to be.
Keep well.
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Good, Ugly, Charming
[Read the article: Oscar, are you listening?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Loved "Away from Her," "Savages," "Juno."
Boycotting "There-Will-Be-Blood-in-No-Country-For-Old-Men."
Delighted in both "Once" and "Music and Lyrics." My sister and I are constantly debating which is better and why.
I hope Jule Christie and Hal Holbrook both make it to the winner's circle.
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Same as it ever was
[Read the article: Who cares if Eliot Spitzer hires prostitutes?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now that the NY Times has outed "Kristen" as a 22-year-old(only slightly older than Spitzer's daughter) from a troubled background and with painfully-unlikely aspirations to be a singer, can we stop talking about this as a consenting act between adults on equal footing? Money does not cure the troubling inequities of most acts of prostitution. I guarantee women of means do not choose to work for escort services.
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What's next for McCain?
[Read the article: What's next for Edwards?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since McCain was having an affair with Cindy before his separation and divorce from his first wife, McCain may not like the topic of marital infidelity to be in the news again. Interesting too that McCain's wife was physically disabled from a car accident and Elizabeth Edwards is dying (as are we all ultimately.) The message to wives? Stay healthy and young.
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Atwood Realized
[Read the article: McCain's Republic of Gilead]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This past weekend, I terrified myself by rereading “The Handmaid’s Tale” and imagining Sarah Palin in the role of one of the powerful “Wives” and myself as an “Unwoman” exiled to the toxic work camps. How sobering to remember that the Christian fundamentalists were able to take over the country by exploiting fears of Islamic terrorism and controlling the banking system. Atwood was certainly prescient in 1985.