Letters to the Editor
AncientAssyrian
Published Letters: 753 Editor's Choice: 54
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Why I don't love Starbucks...
[Read the article: Has Starbucks lost its soul?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]IT'S THE COFFEE!!!
For a plain cup of joe, McDonald's and Dunkin Donuts have FAR better coffee -- it's not bitter, and costs about 1/3 the price!
Starbucks has nicer hanging-out ambiance, though.
Once in a while, I do like a caramel macchiato or a caramel frappucino though.
And if I have to kill some time on the way from here to there, I'll stop in, get a coffee and a muffin, and it's fine.
But their baked goods are NOT their strong suit, true. Their food in general is pretty mediocre, AND expensive.
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Another reason to bookmark HuffPo...
[Read the article: Introducing 5 Things!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm with the other poster. This is why I'm spending much more time at HuffPo, even if it's clunky to navigate.
Seems like Salon's getting ever so much more "USA Today" rather than New Yorker, sad to see...
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Stand by your man...
[Read the article: Why stand by? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Could someone explain exactly how is this sort of feminism -- which smacks of June Cleaver vacuuming in heels and pearls -- an advance for women?
Yes, feminism means the freedom to make your own decisions.
So what? Now, instead of being required to be the dutiful, suck-it-up-and-be-humiliated wife, these women get to CHOOSE to be the dutiful, suck-it-up-and-be-humiliated wife?
Ok, sure. They can decide whatever they want. But that doesn't mean these so-called feminists are making GOOD decisions. No one says that exercising your empowered womanhood to make a stupid, retro, self-flagellating decision is smart or admirable.
For just this reason, Hillary lost my future vote and my respect long ago.
And like Hillary, and now Silda, there are legions of political wives who follow this scripted tradition -- standing by their disgraced man, who has so publicly disrespected and humiliated them.
Sorry ladies, but if you don't have enough respect for yourself to at least absent yourself from his media mea culpa, and you truly want to go public on the record showing moral support for an immoral creep, then don't be surprised if you lose the respect of the public, and if as a result, the media and the public dare to denigrate your judgment and decisions.
And pay attention, Hillary. Because people are remembering how voting to commit us to war in Iraq wasn't the only really truly awful decision you've made along the way....
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@Claire Fontaine -- Amen Sister, You Go Girl, You Said it, and all that!
[Read the article: Why stand by? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...This is part of why I don't want Hillary to win. I don't want my future daughters to think they'll be rewarded for letting a man treat them like garbage..."
Exactly. I have a young daughter, and I agree. While feminism and women's rights strive to give women choices about their own lives, it doesn't mean that the choices are good ones. I sure don't want her to think that the values espoused by these women -- INCLUDING HILLARY CLINTON -- is something to be admired.
Here in Washington -- where I once heard a young woman proudly brag to her friends because she had bedded Alan Greenspan, of all people! -- most women know that many politicians are egotistical cads who totally groove on sexual groupies and illicit sexual opportunities. And for every women who gets paid for it, there are hordes of interns, staffers and hangers-on who will do it for free, simply because they are into the whole culture of power in Washington. (I mean, otherwise, why would any 20-something be proud of having gotten Alan Greenspan into the sack!?)
A woman who marries a politician needs to approach it much like marrying a rock star -- expectations of fidelity are nothing more than Pollyanna optimism. (And that goes for Republicans...they are just as twisted as their Democratic pals.)
But those same women also need to get a reality check when it comes time to cash in on the sympathy chits, because they don't deserve any. That's how deals with the devil work. And they don't deserve respect either. They have a right to make their own wrong-headed decisions to stand by their immoral, unethical, megalomaniacal creeps, and we have a right to call them out for it.
P.S. Take note, Hillary.
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Over-identification?
[Read the article: Mirror, mirror on the Wall]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Rebecca Traister says that Silda Spitzer, like Hillary Clinton, is suffering from "over-identification," something Traister says Clinton has "endured" for more than two decades.
Funnily enough, Hillary doesn't seem to mind the "over-identifying" when it's time for her to take credit for any positive accomplishment of her husband's entire administration. Yet, Hillary is "suffering" from "over-identification?" Is the suffering the part where she tries to claim credit while distancing herself from any failures of her husband's administration, including his lying, her defending him, and yes, her own high-profile failure at health reform?
Sorry...not buying it.
If you marry a smart/charismatic/megalomaniac politician -- as most of them are -- and he, gasp gasp surprise surprise, ends up messing around -- as so many of them do -- then where's the big surprise here? Even the Bible thumping family values cretins aren't immune, in fact, they are the ones we end up hearing about dressed in fishnets in a seedy hotel, for goodness sake. Who wants to bet Gomer Huckabee has a few secrets we haven't heard about?
Silda, Hillary and their ilk want to dance with the devil, and then expect our sympathy. Sorry. One of the downsides of feminism is that you may get to make the decision, but if you make a colossally stupid one and get humiliated, and then stand there to give moral support to an immortal screwup, the public gets to think that you too are a screwup.
And who would be surprised if right now, Silda Spitzer's laying out her plans to run for Governor of New York herself. After all, her experience as First Lady of New York qualifies her to run the state, doesn't it? Maybe Hillary can offer some advice.