Letters to the Editor
jgrosch
Published Letters: 30 Editor's Choice: 4
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What about the women
[Read the article: An international affair]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]An interesting article but the article seemed to be focusing on the men who were having affairs. It got me wondering, all these men are having affairs but with whom? Single women? Married women? Logic leads me to think that most of women in these illicit affairs were married yet this was hardly talked about.
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Another scam
[Read the article: The marriage industrial complex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've been married and divorced twice. My first marriage, in 1984, was at the home of the Justice of Peace. $20.00 for the marriage license and $25.00 for the ceremony. My then wife and I went out for meal at a nice restaurant which cost us a little over $50.00.
My second marriage was in 1993. This time the ceremony was at the Cook county court house. We dressed up as the Blues Brothers. I think the marriage license was $50.00 including the ceremony in the judges chambers. We were going to spend $2,500 on a honeymoon but the furnace chose that week to die so we replaced it and went camping instead.
At the same time a couple we knew were getting married. Her father said , "I've put aside $10,000 for you. You can spend it on a wedding or a down payment on a house. You choose." They choose the house and now, 15 years later the house is worth 5 times what they paid for it. If they had chosen the wedding all they would have would be some nice photos.
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What the GOP really wants
[Read the article: The GOP gets gaudy in Michigan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Reading this article reminds me of what my grandfather, a card carrying Wobblie, used to tell me. That the republicans are the party of the rich, the privileged and the corporations. That they are out to fuck the working man and bring the Gilded Age back. In the 30 years since he died the republicans have done nothing to prove him wrong. I find it telling that they hold events at a place like the Grand Hotel, one of the high temples of the Gilded Age.
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Bozo with a horn
[Read the article: The K Chronicles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Keith,
You are my hero! I can't count the number of times I've had to sit and listen to some zero and his freakin' horn.
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One of the lucky ones.
[Read the article: Monster-in-law?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My mother adores my wife and has from the first time they met. Over the last 15 years she has taken to referring to my wife as her "West Coast daughter". I took my wife to meet my family soon after we decided to get married. We spent 2 weeks with them (They live in Virginia and we live in California) during that visit one of my sisters blurted out, to my wife, "We like you better then we like ". That has become a family joke. We call them every Sunday and my mother will spend 5 minutes talking to me and will then insist that I put my wife on the phone they then spend an hour talking.
I am so glad that my wife has blended in so well with my family. I've know men who's mother _HATED_ their wife and made their life a living hell.
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Ask someone who knows
[Read the article: Is waterboarding torture? Ask the prisoners]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If Sen. Schumer and Feinstein want to understand the "procedure", then they should interview men who _WERE_ subjected to it. The Japanese subjected a number of American and British POWs to this sort of torture during WWII. In fact when the war was over military tribunals were held against the Japanese officers and a number of them were found guilty and either given life sentences or a death sentence.
A good number of WWII veterans who were prisoners of the Japanese are still alive and I'm sure the DOD archives contains transcripts describing their treatment. I find it very sad and scary that what we once condemned the Germans, the Japanese and the Soviets for doing has become policy and that 25% of this country agrees with it.
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Paper or air
[Read the article: Public bathroom dilemma: Paper or air?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I dry my hands on my pants, I wear jeans most of the times. Shake your hands dry then wipe on your pants legs. There, no dead trees and no atomic power plants.
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Did you save the receipt ?
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I sure hope you did not pay for this piece of dreck. If you did, shame on you, I hope you saved the recept 'cause you should return it and ask for your money back. Hell, this makes Garfield look deep.
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Mazel Tov !!!
[Read the article: The K Chronicles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thats great. I remember when my daughter was born, it was like I suddenly grew up and became an adult. I had a purpose in life. Mark my words, it will be the best thing that ever happened you and your wife. Keith, best to both of you guys.
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The more things change ....
[Read the article: With Bhutto gone, does Bush have a Plan B?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh, jezzz. Is there anyone who been awake anytime in the last 30 years who can not guess how this is going to end up?
Musharraf (our man in Islamabad, we can trust him), is just like the Shah, "Baby Doc" Duvalier, Batista, Marcos, etc. If you squint you can see it all. A dictator, that we have been propping up, is overthrown, he flees into exile in the south of France or Switzerland with hundreds of millions of dollars that we gave his county in the form of foreign aid, and the new "government" comes to power and changes the national anthem to "Death to America".
You would think that somewhere in the State department there is a special office who's job it is to advise the executive branch as to what NOT to do in foreign policy.
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Plan B ? What was Plan A?
[Read the article: With Bhutto gone, does Bush have a Plan B?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Forget about a Plan B from Chimpy and Darth Cheney. They don't even have a Plan A. Its what ever they happen to pull out of their ass that day. They don't have to plan anything, they have ideology and prayer. The only thing that keeps me from loosing my mind is that we only have 388 days until the criminal bush regime is removed from office and we can start repair the damage they have inflicted on us over the last 7 years.
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Not this again
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why do you persist in publishing this drek? I have wrapped fish in better comix than this waste of time.