Letters to the Editor
Nick44
Published Letters: 163 Editor's Choice: 6
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Anonymous 2:33 p.m., Vick is a terrible human being. So was your neighbor.
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your neighbor loved animals the way a shark loves meat. Was your neighbor who ran cock- and dogfights a smiling loving family man? The world is filled with horrible criminal tycoons who are kind to little kids with one hand while murdering people left and right with the other.
Michael Vick tortured and killed animals. So did your neighbor. Deal with the fact that good people do not do these kinds of things. If you want to feel sorry for something, feel sorry for the dogs victimized by Vick and his criminal cohorts.
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Well Shadow (and Anonymous)
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]We've already invaded the Phillipines and nuked Asia, so you can decide for yourself based on history if either or both were worth it.
As others have pointed out, there are many evils in the world, and we can all digress forever if we want to, but this topic is Michael Vick and dogfighting, so let's stick to that, shall we?
Anonymous, why is it "pompous" to condemn as evil a man who tortures dogs? Are you that aloof from wordly matters?
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Today in a CNN report: 1 in 5 grammar school children in Chicago participate in dogfighting
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Either as spectators or assistants. That's 20 percent of Chicago schoolkids having their minds ruined and corrupted by gangmembers, drug dealers, and other bottom feeders of society. Those kids are going to grow up to take their mentors' places as criminals and predators.
If you think dogfighting is only a problem for dogs, think again.
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Give it a rest, emyth.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]It was a play on a famous James Brown song, period.
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Be a conscientious plastic bag recycler.
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Our household recycles every plastic bag we use, as well as plastic wrap from the stuff we buy. That's one very easy way to prevent the kind of pollution Carol describes.
I admit that we use plastic bags for our cat poop in the form of those long blue Litter Locker bags. But, we throw them out as opposed to letting them flutter in the wind and end up in trees, etc. (anyway, they're too full of cat poop to flutter anywhere).
As for kitty litter, we use World's Best, which is made from corn waste. There's also Swheat Scoop, which is made from wheat waste. No clay mining involved, and it's much safer for cats.
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I love beans, especially Lima beans.
[Read the article: Mister bean]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Being a vegetarian, beans are my best friend. I get almost all of my protein from beans, and if you buy them in bulk, they are very inexpensive, even the organically raised ones. Canned beans are fine, but putting dried beans in the crockpot in the morning is a much less expensive and far tastier way of enjoying them.
Of course, thanks to the humble soybean, I enjoy veggie dogs and burgers and tofu and tempeh and countless other wonderful foods. The soybean is god.
As for Lima beans, I wonder if Mr. Albala has ever had them fresh. The difference between freshly shucked and boiled Lima beans, and dried or frozen Lima beans, is like the difference between the finest Swiss chocolate and a Hershey's bar.
I look forward to buying this book.
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Rich old man and pretty young thing: not illegal, but is it prostitution?
[Read the article: Bob Herbert argues against prostitution, again ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A poor or middle-class man pays a woman for sex, and that is considered the crime of prostitution.
A rich old man walks into a restaurant with a glamourous young woman on his arm. He buys her meals and drinks and maybe expensive jewelry, might even pay the rent for her studio apartment. He gets her into fancy parties with all the beautiful people, maybe introduces her to his model agency contacts. She in turn sleeps with him. Legal.
Something is not right here.
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Wouldn't this affect animals, too?
[Read the article: Fear of a female planet]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If the theory put forward in this article is correct, then wouldn't the fact that, "According to the scientists, these endocrine disruptors are accumulating in polar bears, whales and other animals high on the Arctic food chain in concentrations of 1 million times greater than their levels in plankton<" also lead to the disappearance of males of those species, as well as the males of any animals that might feed on them (through predation or scavenging)?
If so, then starvation and drowning will be only two in a list of factors which are driving the world's most magnificent animals into extinction.
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I never promised you an Oscar garden.
[Read the article: Demi Moore's mad as hell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I appreciate that actresses in Hollywood face more limited careers than men, though there certainly are older successful actresses, like Maggie Smith and Helen Mirren, and older men who just aren't getting the kinds of parts which made them stars, like Harrison Ford (Indy Jones 4 notwithstanding). But isn't acting as a profession, like all other artistic careers, a crapshoot anyway? Think of all the once-hot young actors who've dropped of the face of the Earth (quick, what was the name of the lead actor from "Breaking Away?"). Rich and successful actors/actresses like Demi Moore are the exception, not the rule. The hills are alive with waiters and real estate agents with great looks and great acting skills who never made it past the audition stage. It's a similar story for screenwriters (how many wannabe talented writers jumped out of windows when they learned that some hack made a small fortune to write "Daddy Daycamp?"). Outside of Hollywood, painters and dancers and writers and sculptors, artists of all types, may or may not make a living at it, and may nor may not enjoy hugely successful careers throughout their lives. Many artists, like Demi Moore, hit the high times and then fade away.
Film school or law school: the eternal question. As with most things in life, neither gives you everything that you want.
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Now we finally know what happened to Gilligan's Island.
[Read the article: The GOP gets gaudy in Michigan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Howells took it over and renamed it Mackinac Island.
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Why not just ask for blood?
[Read the article: Why stop at $9.11 when you could ask for $911?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let everyone donate a pint for Rudy. He can then turn around and sell it to blood banks. Better yet, he can save it up to pour on his shirts when he makes speeches. The big hero, covered in other people's blood.
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Why did they cut down the tree?
[Read the article: After Jena]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So now there is one less tree providing shade and life at that school. Good going, people of Jena. Your reaction to an episode of hate and violence and ignorance was to destroy a thing of beauty.
A pox on all of them.