Letters to the Editor
desi_grrl
Published Letters: 33
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hmm
[Read the article: My boss forwards fluffy kitten e-mails!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Amity's letter makes sense.
maybe this is the boss's idea of appearing down to earth, or maybe the boss is not as cool as the underlings and does not share their sophisticated sense of humor. yes i do agree chain mails are unprofessional, but he/she's the boss. there must be a reason why.
does LW have an issue with boss's management style when it comes to the projects and teams themselves? does the boss discriminate, meddle, encourage, inspire, get the work done? does the LW think that the chain mail sending is an omen that more serious events could ensue - such as projects being lost due the boss's possible cluelessness? these things are more important (of course, only if the LW really cares for the job) to worry about, more than chain mails.
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lol @ schez3
[Read the article: It's gift-giving time, and I'm cranky about gift cards and pushy kids]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]how about supporting 1 kid in the 3rd world for each kid in your family. then give the kid in your family a certificate telling them about their counterpart kid in the 3rd world, and how they are actually bringing food to someone's table that christmas. for the adults, you could support a woman in war torn regions or support a farmer on one of those microcredit orgs. Imagine, 25$ will go a long way, and here you were thinking about spending 100s of $s on pesky Tiffany to support her hatred of reading.
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or carbon credits
[Read the article: It's gift-giving time, and I'm cranky about gift cards and pushy kids]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]how about buying them some carbon credits? the kids'll need them in a few years, i'm sure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_credit
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Anon who posted first believes in witchcraft.
[Read the article: Saudi Arabia goes old school]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]ROTFL. Anon first believes in witchcraft. this guy is deranged.
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cool topic, exactly what i feel
[Read the article: Nothing makes any sense anymore. I'm at the end of my rope]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the answer i have right now, is that there really is no point, there really is nothing there. the question then (because i am human, and i think) - so, what to do? people who don't understand say, so why live, just kill yourself. but they are judging my analysis of reality as i perceive it and are being insensitive because they don't understand.
the gita therefore, says, do your duty. duty is what you are capable of doing given your individual construction. so perhaps my duty is to create, since i am constructed with those faculties. currently, because i don't understand, and all i have is this physicality, i'm trying to understand what can keep me going within this physicality, so that i can spend my time pleasantly, given that the one thing i do like within this physicality, is pleasure.
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hypocrisy and the media game
[Read the article: New debates about the oldest profession]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the woman will probably get a media deal of some sort, given that she got her biography in the NYT portraying her as the girl next door. NYT even gave a link to her myspace page. Wow. she sure has a great publicist it seems.
she says in the article, she has no way to pay the rent now (now that her john is in jail and her boyfriend walked out on her). she hardly sounds like a victim to me. what saddens me is the countless women out there who are genuinely exploited, are carelessly overshadowed by news like this, where a well-to-do 1st world woman chooses to be in the trade and this kind of woman desensitizes people to the real issues of prostitution.
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my mind boggles
[Read the article: Spitzer's escort's MySpace: Meet Ashley Alexandra Dupre]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]so what cut is this columnist getting for selling her songs?
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wtf?
[Read the article: For Ashley Alexandra Dupre, selling music beats selling sex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]2 songs now? not selling enough? what are you getting out of this deal?
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bear with me please, i'm trying hard to understand what's happening here....
[Read the article: For Ashley Alexandra Dupre, selling music beats selling sex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]so farhad, you're saying that you (salon) are posting her songs out of the goodness of your hearts to help her out? hmm, so if i choose to be a highly paid prostitute (unlike all those women who genuinely are exploited) and then manage to get into the limelight, i will be helped out by the media to further my, say, poultry business?
Please forgive me if i sound abrasive, i'm a little confused here. the point i'm trying to make is, looks like either this woman hired a great publicist, so that her songs would be available for download on sites like Salon and indirectly from the NYT (where her myspace page is bandied about), or its just a great traffic magnet to your sites (not that you need this kind of articles for attracting people now, do you?). she clearly has made a bunch of money in her prostitution business, and then states in the NYT article that she has no way to pay the rent since her boyfriend walked out on her when she discovered his children. what is she trying to say? that she's single and available to be taken care of?
my question is, why is this woman being the positive publicity she does not deserve?
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dont mean to pick on you, but i'm just confused....
[Read the article: For Ashley Alexandra Dupre, selling music beats selling sex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]she is obviously newsworthy, what with her pics being splashable and all. i read because i am trying to make sense of a meaningless world where more and more, thinking that one can get by based on genuine talent is stupidity, and i should probably just use my boobs to get those gigs. i read because i am trying to make sense of my cynicism and my naivite within the framework of this life (and i am only 30, but i guess that's too old for a woman these days to get a start in the media). i read because i am trying to make sense of why she is being portrayed as a victim, why NYT calls her a star. no i am not asking for her to be put in a ducking chair, i am just wondering why the positive publicity? what about balanced analysis? or maybe the head shouldn't be working in such cases.
9:00pm on a friday night, i'm out. thanks for responding, farhad and i really don't mean to pick on you in particular, just that everyone's posting whatever, so i'm also thinking aloud on an available forum.