Letters to the Editor
Mizmoon
Published Letters: 146 Editor's Choice: 15
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Easy Love and Hard Love
[Read the article: How can we get back the thrill in our relationship?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Easy love happens on campus. It happens in dorms and apartments paid for by parents, using birth control provided by the student health center, on mattresses that are surrounded by piles of books. It's about pub crawls, and Domino's pizza, papers due, soft skin, and dreams about the future.
If you want to find thrills, the two of you should give hard love a try. That happens in Mexico when you both have the shits so bad you want to die. She does not look very beautiful - she looks green and sick and has flecks of puke on her sweaty t-shirt. Still love her? Now get married and face bills and babies and rude comments from relatives and negotiating opposite sex friends ...
What I'm saying to you with a knowing smile is that you have just begun to know what love is, what life means, and who you both are. Keep living and the world will bring enough thrills of her own.
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Different take
[Read the article: Abortion, shmashmortion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I saw the story in a very different light. To me it was a black comedy about people doing "the right thing" and ending up with shit. Oh they marry and have babies and careers and fancy homes and cars, all right. But the sick joke is it ends up just like an unfunny, tense version of "Everybody Loves Raymond" populated by non-Gerber babies, unsuitable couples who have to force themselves to get along and leave all that was fun behind including sex, and who must accept this all gladly as part of growing up.
I also thought it brilliantly demonstrated how and why people get themselves into what later turn into "American Beauty" situations. They get sentimental, and that muddles their heads.
Seems to me KU isn't subtly pro-choice, it's actually pro-abortion. Look at the misery that awaits those who have families.
(Just a note, they do imply that Allison is dependent on her sister because when she gets her promotion her brother-in-law "jokes" that that means she can move out.)
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Well ...
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think the whole cartoon was just an excuse to use the word "dearth" in public.
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Ugh
[Read the article: Don't run, Al. Don't!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What was surfacing in Hillary was the old family psychodrama of the bright, brittle, high-achieving daughter contemptuously outflanking her befuddled, resentful, mediocre brothers at the dinner table.
And how the hell would she know this about Hillary Clinton? Did she make telapathic contact with Senator Clinton? Did Clinton come to her for therapy? Paglia is projecting or something, and it's pretty arrogant to think you can read another person so easily. The contempt also seems to have a personal flavor to it. Paglia may not like Senator Clinton, but the woman has made some impressive history. Any objective observer would say that Clinton's contribution to society far outweighs Paglia's contribution which consists primarily of lame complaints. Live with that Camille.
Of course Paglia really has no place in Salon. She hates the Democrats, our candidates, our ideals, and our goals. Why Salon continues to run her abusive tripe is beyond me. Oh wait, I remember, it's because the left has this self-loathing thing going on where we actually entertain the opinions of those who tell us we suck right to our faces. Then we thank them for it, and even give them a paycheck.
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Riddle
[Read the article: The other mothers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What's the difference between a nanny and a babysitter?
I can't speak for anyone else but I am annoyed by these articles because I think the use of the term "nanny" is pretentious and indicative of a certain distasteful, bourgeious mindset.
Real nannies make $30k or more a year, have degrees in early childhood education, wear uniforms, and work for ultrarich families. Almost everyone else has a babysitter taking care of their kids. Paris Hilton had a nanny. Your rugrats have a babysitter. Live with it. It should be easy when you see what little good it does rich folks to use a real nanny.
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He's not right
[Read the article: Why won't my boyfriend introduce me to his daughters?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He's not giving you want you need. Forget this "I'm 50 so I have to settle for an asshole" vibe. Know your worth. Know you deserve someone better. Live your life for you.
If you stopped trying so hard, would this relationship even exist or would it fade away like a puff of smoke?
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My Last TV Show
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I grew up on TV ... Saturday morning cartoons, Friday night dramas, after-school specials, the whole bit.
In the last five years or so I've watched less and less. My teenage son never watches TV. We're both online all the time. We never saw Survivor, Housewives, Idol, etc.
The Sopranos was the only TV show left that I watched ... I even knew when it was on which means a lot in my world. The last season sucked from the coma crap all the way through that cop-out ending. I feel like a fool for having stuck with it. I thought Chase was going to tell me an entire story, not leave me hanging.
And with that, I am officially done with TV for good. As if I needed any clearer demonstration that it was a waste of my time for all these years.