Letters to the Editor
totallyblase
Published Letters: 303 Editor's Choice: 1
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Good On Ya, Alec.
[Read the article: This little piggy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Go to your room", indeed. Working in a school, I've seen a lot of selfish little piggies, as well as my own fair share of total little shits. If mommie and daddy knew what little beasts they were raising, well, this problem would never rear its ugly head. And if you believe that . . .
Please . . .
when you call in a parent because their little prince or princess has done something inappropriate (often so disgustingly ignorant, nasty or just plain contemptuous of other human beings that you wonder and worry about the future of this planet), you soon met the reason for the behavior. Call it "the-little-turd-off-the-big-steaming-pile" syndrome. I say, call 'em as you see 'em, Alec.
And don't even get me started on your ex-wife.
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Butter Sure Wouldn't Melt In Susan's Mouth
[Read the article: This little piggy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hooray for you and your wonderful CONSTANTLY commented upon children -- sounds like something right out of The Stepford Wives -- but I digress, gentle reader (yet inwardly raging -- do I detected some serious issues here??). Physical & verbal abuse have no place in a civilized world, let alone a decent home . . . but as Rummy would say, "Stuff happens". People (not just kids, either) rebel and refuse to toe the line. People defy other people's rules for a variety of reasons -- they could be just plain spiteful, or they may see the rules as totally unreasonable and without purpose except to impose control. And the 'rudeness' doesn't have to be a backhand across the ear or screamed abuse. Take M, a young man who I've known for a number of years. During the time I've known him, I never once heard his single mom raise her voice to him or treat him in any way that could be ascribed by some as abusive. Rather, he was cowed into submission and humiliated until broken.
Think of mom as a Kathleen Turner type here, a woman who never raised her voice or raised the old cooking sppon as a threat:
"WE don't do things like that in OUR home, do WE M . . . "
"WE know that decent people shouldn't behave that way, don't we M . . . "
"If WE had clear consciences WE certainly wouldn't be wetting OUR beds, would we M . . . "
All uttered in a honeyed-cloying voice in front of non-family members.
And so it went, M gradually turning into one of the surliest, most insensitive, damaged pieces-of-shite you'd never want to know. . .
now I understand why mom never remarried, and why I'm sure that M never will.
Personally, I think it's too bad that M's dad was run off and wasn't around to give a well-needed vinegar to the momster's honey.
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Magpies, Monkeys, & Dancing Bears
[Read the article: This little piggy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You seem to entertain yourself by flipping it and catching it in your baseball cap -- poorly. Call 'em what you like. It would appear, monkeys wanting 200 plus responses withstanding, that hoi polloi like to watch the bears dance as well. Sheesh. Leave the holier-than-thou crud in the bleachers -- the vein-in-the-forehead-popping-soccer-mommas -- your gripe is not with the 'abusers', but rather with the folks who don't follow your agenda. Crikey, what a sad old magpie you be . . .
Spare the rod, indeed. Squawk!! You raise your fungatoids as you see fit, don't you dare point your dingy digits at others. You want attention??? Write something new.
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Headless In Suburbia
[Read the article: Beyond the Multiplex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Poor ol' Mike, and it would appear a lot of other folks out there, sure seem fixated (and apparently quaking in their birkies) over the beheading thing. See, that's how these things work. Fear works on the faint-hearted. How many letters have you read, or times have you heard (most recently from fear-monger Rudy), that there are hordes of swarthy allah-akbar-shouting kaffiyeh-wearing scimitar-waving cold-blooded killers out there just waiting to invade our shores and either cut or saw off our heads because we ain't killing 'em fast enough 'over there'. P!ss on you faint-hearts. The hell with you. I enjoy the view from up here, not down there cringing on my knees . . .
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War? What war?
[Read the article: Last refuge of the scoundrel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't get it. They keep calling this thing a war. It ain't. It's an occupation that is going terribly wrong. Occupations aren't won, they just tend to bleed the occupiers and the occupants white -- then the occupiers finally leave. Funny how we never seem to learn that.
The thing that really pees me off is that this whole debuncle just had to happen. A wounded and humiliated America needs retribution -- somebody always has to pay. And now we have all these two-faced SOBS saying, "If I knew then what I know now I wouldn't have supported it . . . ".
Codswallop -- all of America is to blame. How was it even conceivable that this current crew of criminals, maniacs, misfits, morons and sociopaths could have ever been considered to hold any position of power and / or responsibility??? What were you thinking?? That these people were going to rehabilitate? That they weren't going to continue their ways?? And they are going to hang on until the last dime is squeezed out and stolen(and that's why they're in it -- money and power), and they ain't going to leave kindly. These folks are gonna poison all the wells, so to speak, just out of spite. They'll go kicking, screaming, scratching and howling like the dirty dogs they are . . .
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Which War?
[Read the article: Northern exposure]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Again, and again, and yet again, the whole deal is about America. Dang it girls, but the world does move, and 95% of the world really doesn't care. Move on, you can turn everywhere into a parking lot, but we still don't care. Bleat on, give us your best. Guess what!! 95% of the world could give a rough rodeo yee-haw. Nice place to visit, but, heck, sure don't wanna have to live there . . .
I do love the Grand Canyon, though . . .
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Shhhhhh Phil . . . .
[Read the article: Northern exposure]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Montreal, Quebec City, heck, even Trawan are NOT places we want the truly dull to know about. Vancouver??? Heck!! A city without 'Muricans. You can have Calgary, though . . .
Wot, you already have Calgary!!