Letters to the Editor
katepaul
Published Letters: 9 Editor's Choice: 2
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send a letter, email, frowny face fax
[Read the article: You're fired!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here's the president's address. Their web site is down.
N. Henry Bledsoe
President/ASM
Benefit Management Administrators, Inc.
PO BOX 17
9365 Cherry Valley Ave
Caledonia, MI 49316
Phone: 616-891-1984
Fax: 616-891-9009
Email: henry@benefitsthatfit.com
URL: http://benefitsthatfit.com
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actually
[Read the article: Real-life school of rock needs you]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What's the difference between this and tennis camp? Or art camp? Or band camp? Yeah, it's all girls, but there have been all girl camps for a long time. And they're usually about psycho-educational development. Like these.
You just learn how to play electric guitar for the sake of learning how to play electric guitar--it's as simple as that. It might be a little less competitive when vulnerability is taken out of the quotient. Hell, getting up to sing in front of people is scarey enough.
Kids have more choices these days. If a rock camp had been around when I was a kid I would have surely skipped summer school home ec and wood shop for this stuff.
There's a Girlz Rhythm N' Rock Camp in Central Ohio. Ladyfest Ohio threw a huge weekend benefit for the camp--primarily so that girls from low to middle-income households could attend. It's quite offensive to suggest that it's just for yuppies. It's for everybody's girls.
Here's a link: http://www.girlzrhythmnrockcamp.com/
I don't know if strutting or drug use is a quotient in realizing your potential. Developmental and educational programming is far more about realizing your potential these days.
If it doesn't hurt, then let it rock!
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planting a seed (idea seed, that is)
[Read the article: Scary screeds about Maureen Dowd, written by threatened men]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe someone should subscribe Mr. Ross to a girlie mag featuring middle aged ladies for the holidays. His address is on google. ;) Perhaps then he'll finally get to see the hottness he's been missing, and that the only women who have expiration dates are those that come with the subscription. katepaul
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sad
[Read the article: "Will we let Jill Carroll be killed?"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I believed Jill to be responsible for her own fate when I first read about it--especially being a representative from the Christian Science Monitor (easy target). It's easy to do that when you don't have a connection.
But then a connection was made that stopped me. I realized that she and I are about the same age (28) and was hit with the realization of how awful this situation is --just like any other on and off the battleground. And yes, I had this feeling with the other hostages and kids on the field my age who have been killed. But this is a woman who could be me. Maybe that's why us feminists are upset. It's not that we're feminists. Some of us are just young women who know that we could be her had our lives been different.
And to think that they're going to let her die to save face. We don't even have a face to save anymore given everything we've lost for the ultimate prize of our freedom (do we have it yet?). If it were Jenna or Babara Bush, those women would be out, regardless of what they--or the "anti-war, pro-Iraq" Jill did. Those young women certainly would be worthy of saving, despite the sacrifice, wouldn't they?
I can't imagine being in her place. And to know that the administration is doing nothing to save my life. Peace be with Jill Carroll whatever comes of this.
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standards
[Read the article: "Will we let Jill Carroll be killed?"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"The problem with that is we would be setting up a 'standard' of what kind or scale of people-trading kidnapping demands we will bend to. Bad idea. That would simply cause many more kidnappings with 'small' demands like a few prisoners, etc."
Yeah, because the "standard" that we have now, where the administration isn't giving in is really having a positive impact on the increasing number of kidnappings and murders. It's all clear now how that principle works.
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freedom!
[Read the article: Making Colbert go away]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Colbert's brave act showed me how free we can be in this country despite the times, something that I really haven't felt in a long time. And to me, that's far more sacred than being funny.
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where is greil marcus when you need him?
[Read the article: The riot quiets]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]i'm a 30-year-old mom with a fancy baby stroller and i'm flying out to see them one last time in dc. and it's really not to say goodbye to my youth because i'm still young and will always listen to the stuff i've been listening to. it's to see carrie brownstein kick the sh!t out of a guitar again--one last time. most of their fans knew that they'd eventually end the band. they have been talking about it for years.
greil marcus should have done the honors of writing the farewell to sk on salon. i met him in '01 and we both had a brief conversation about sleater-kinney. he said that they were hands down the best band at that time if not one of the best american bands in the history of rock.
if anyone has EVER seen carrie brownstein play guitar, you know what i mean. that's what rock is all about--right there. it's not just about the mixings of gender and music, for that's how you get there sometimes. it's about rock and the different trappings it brings along once you are making music. for some of us, that's all it needs to be about. carrie brownstein is queer, a feminist, educated, an actress and has many other talents, i'm sure. but what has been more important for me is that she can play guitar like no one's business. like she's going to burn down the building and take the ashes with her.
as far as the seeger sessions goes, you can love sleater-kinney and pete seeger and bruce and his 15-member band. i just saw the show. it was awesome. and bruce tore up the guitar like no one's business, too.
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war room
[Read the article: Goodbye to the Fix, for now]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]if we're going to toss out the fix, then can we please toss out WAR ROOM. or at least put some marshmallow fluff and a pink boa around it? thanks.