Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 195 Editor's Choice: 6
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@MomOKat
[Read the article: Is my kid a jerk, or is he just 2?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You should be proud of yourself and your kid. You taught your kid how to use force in an ethical manner. You and your daughter saved all of the kids from random attacks and the attacker learned a new behavior. They're all better off.
A psychologist told a friend of ours to do exactly what you did. Their youngest (a boy) bullied his older sister. The instructions to the parents were: Give the older child permission to clean the little bully's clock and then let them work it out. Don't step in unless there's blood.
It worked.
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Divorceland
[Read the article: Can I stop my aging parents from suing each other into oblivion?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Welcome to Divorceland!
My parents divorced when I was in junior high. Here's my advice: stay the hell out of it.
Tell your dad that you can't negotiate between them or stop your mother. You refuse.
Tell your mother that you won't side with her against your father. You refuse.
Tell them both to get the hell over it.
Then stay out of the fight. Just refuse to discuss it. If they start talking to you about it, say "I'm sorry, but I'm not discussing this with you" and hang up the phone or leave the room.
They'll quit eventually.
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Sigh
[Read the article: The dominatrix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree with 80% of what Obama stands for.
At the same time, I share much of Palin's background, and watching her being attacked for her personality, clothes, and family makes me cringe. Why should any voter believe Obama supporters when they say that they're going to help white, working class voters? Everything Obama's true believers say about this demographic drips with contempt for working class whites.
At least the Republicans pretend to like us and pay lip service to respecting us.
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@ Dr. Locrian
[Read the article: The dominatrix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1. I never said it was okay to attack urban liberals. BUT... the Republican party isn't trying to win over this group of voters. They know they don't agree on the issues and they don't trust the Republicans. It's complete BS, but it doesn't matter over the long haul in the election. Republicans aren't trying to persuade urban liberals of anything.
2. I never said I was going to vote McCain/Palin. I'm voting for Obama. It won't be because I like Obama, though, and the anti-Palin hysteria is one reason not to like or trust Obama's party. For other white, working class voters, voting for Obama on the issues requires that we believe him when he sets forth his policies and says "And these policies will help you." If Obama and his supporters talk out of both sides of their mouths, why should the demographic believe him on anything? If you say that white, working class voters are "chimps," or "idiots" who "bitterly cling to their religion and guns," why on earth should they believe when you say "Vote for us, because we want to help you! We value your vote!"
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Freeloaders
[Read the article: America is scaring the hell out of us Canadians!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually we do give military aid to Canada, Canada is a member of NATO. We're obligated to protect Canada from invasion. An invasion of a NATO ally automatically triggers our obligation to defend its borders. Like the rest of the members of NATO, Canada doesn't spend much on its own military and heavily depends on the US military to protect its borders. The USA accounts for 68% of all military spending by NATO members. Canada accounts for less than 3% of all military spending in NATO.
It's really a great deal for a country that's a relatively close neighbor to both Russia and China.
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re: Freeloaders
[Read the article: America is scaring the hell out of us Canadians!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]On the other hand, what might have seemed like a good deal in the Cold War, may be now more of a deal with the devil...
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So stay...
[Read the article: I've got "restless life syndrome"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You bought house and found a job you love. Good for you. You don't want to keep changing and you want to try staying put for awhile. Yet you feel a nagging pull to hit the road again.
Here's what I did when I got a job that was complete hell. I needed to stay for at least one year, but I was dying to run out the door every minute of every day. I decided every day that I was going to stay at my job "just for today."
"Just for today I'm going to to go to work and do the best job I can in a bad situation."
And I did that. Every Friday I put another tick mark on a post-it note that I hid behind my computer. (Just like a prison movie!) Pretty soon I had 52 tick marks on the post-it and I started looking for a new job.
You might also want to look at yourself to see if you have a problem with perfectionism. Are you looking for the perfect job, house, mate, dog, world? Are you unable to love your life because you're looking for a perfect life? There's no such thing. You need to learn to accept your life as it is: the good, the bad and the ugly. Acceptance may be the key to all your problems today.
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OMG
[Read the article: My niece was adopted 35 years ago -- and never told!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Leave it alone. You're going to severely damage the relationship between this woman and her parents over an issue of DNA.
I don't have words for how evil you are. I can't believe you would even contemplate this. You get to fulfill some sense of "rightness" and gain superiority at the expense of your sister, husband and their daughter.
Actually, I do have words, but all of them are four-letter.