Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 81
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And just where were Amy Benfer's parents during all of this???
[Read the article: What's so wrong with a pregnancy pact?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Moved across the country at 18 to attend Wesleyan University". COOL! How? Scholarships? Money from the mysterious parents? How did she and the kid live there, moneywise? Money from the mysterious parents? Part time job after classes? Doing what? And what kind of parents would wave bye-bye to an 18 year old with their little grandchild just upping and moving away? ... So she's living a rich full life and the kids are all fabulous, how very nice. It's just that every knocked up teenage momma I've ever heard of is living with her momma; works in a fast food joint; biggest ambition is to have a full set of acrylic nails; dates guys named Wayne who work with sheet metal.
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I know women who actually watch these shows...
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...and take them seriously! They are all excited and starry-eyed about that "kneeling with a diamond ring in hand". They actually watch Shear Genius expecting the women to come out with drastic different hair. And this applies to other 'reality shows', too - they watch the Real Housewives to drool over their clothes, they watch fashion do-overs and actually think the women DO look younger, thinner, and better with new wardrobes. They watch all the cook-off shows and commenting how delicious all the food looks while they unthinkingly whip up yet another batch of Hamburger Helper they buy by the case at Costco. If you showed them Heather's article, they just wouldn't get it. But, it keeps their simple minds occupied on a hot summer evening... Myself, a better metaphor for America is a fat guy splashing facedown in the mud on Wipeout. Ha-ha! What a loser!...Thanks for another great column, Heather. I certainly don't envy you your job during the worst. TV. season. EVER! Summer or not.
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In What World...
[Read the article: Teen pregnancy: "Rational long-term economic choice"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...do knocked up young teens, living on welfare, cranking out babies from ages 12 - 19, and when the kids are in school - they all of a sudden decide to further their education/get great jobs/start paying those taxes like good proper Americans? Really? They have those bright shiny futures to look forward to after having one or several kids in their teens? Really? Hey, all you baby mamas lined up in the food stamp office - keep up the good work, nothing but good things will happen to you when you reach your 20's!
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Fat Guy on 'Wipeout!'
[Read the article: Hey, Emmy voters! Don't forget ...]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]ABC has given us 'Lost', 'Grey's Anatomy', 'Desperate Housewives', among other things. ABC has now given us a national treasure in 'Wipeout!', thinking this is JUST. THE. THING. we all would just love to watch (until they get around to cranking out the former again). So, in that spirit, I nominate A Fat Guy Landing In A Mud Puddle. The perfect image, an icon, for the summer TV season of 2008.
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Ew.
[Read the article: The livin' is easy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Because, cookkenusa, try to wrap your head around this - we don't need a dottering, ignorant, possibly mentally ill old stinking REPUBLICAN in the White House. They have done enough damage to this country. They are incompetent, greedy, sex-addled fools, living in the closet, who don't care about women, minorities, pollution, global warming, or anything else except lining their own pockets. McCain will not win. He cannot win. The future of the country is at stake, and if he does win we are all surely, surely doomed. With Obama, there MAY be a chance for the country. Even if we are still doomed, at least there won't be a Republican stinking up the joint.
Mr. Keillor, enjoyed your article. I find July nights, and days, very ...trying...but I know they won't last long. Let's all try to find some sweet, easy peace and vote and hope for a better future.
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Summer and the babbling, happy news people
[Read the article: Why I hate summer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It starts with Memorial Day, when the talking heads on the local news beam a live report from some mudhole and babble on about the "unofficial start of summer". And it continues through the whole summer long... The weather people are the worst. Rain in the forecast, God forbid??? They tiptoe around it, they swear there will be NO downpour, that it will be the very briefest of showers, and then we can all go about having our fun fun fun fun fun. Caper about on the lawn in the bright sunshine! Strut about in bikinis or speedos! March in a parade! Go jogging in the 98 degree 80% humidity! ... And here I sit in front of a fan, practically comatose from heat, a rash peeling the skin off my body under my breasts, smelling to high heaven despite three showers a day. (No air conditioner in the living room because the cheap bastard I live with won't pay for it.)... I swear someday I'm going to go postal on those weather idiots. "Get out there and enjoy it!" they chirp. I'd like to see THEM wedge THEIR fat asses into thongs and jump into a packed city swimming pool! I'd like to see THEM sticking to the plastic seat on a hot city bus. They must be nudist sun worshippers, the way they carry on.
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I predict Betty (not surprisingly)....
[Read the article: Stark, raving mad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...is going to do something shocking. The Stepford Wife perfection will disappear and she will turn her repression around and do, or become, something that will flabbergast her husband. This was a very good review, Heather. It must be nice to HAVE an actual TV show to review, other than fat people falling in the mud, 25 year old rich bitches playing 17 year old rich bitches, and the endless whoring sea donkeys trying to nail a millionaire!