Letters to the Editor
marco polo
Published Letters: 105 Editor's Choice: 1
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What a comfort.
[Read the article: This place is the bomb]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There are birds on Christmas Island! Nuclear explosions aren't so bad, see? See? Everything will be fine. Nature will continue, no matter what atrocities humans do to the planet!
At the end of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road", when all life was extinct except for a handful of cannibals, and our heroes, did they not come across some kind of lichen or fungus growing in the waste? That was a comfort, wasn't it? Nature will continue, no matter what.
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*I* Like 'Corner Gas'
[Read the article: Staycation Nation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...and I LOVE 'Red Green', also from Canada. I would rather watch Red Green and his duct tape than any stinking Gossip Girls, or whatever it is...
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Looks like the abstinence thing didn't really catch on, did it?
[Read the article: Hurricane Bristol hits Minnesota]
[Read more letters about this article: Here](snigger, snigger, snort - hee-hee!)
This is hilarious. It will be interesting to count the double-digits of grandbabies this mob is going to bless Grandma Palin with over the next decade. And I hope someone is going to have the decency to keep an eye on that retarded grandchild!
What sterling role models for America! (America in the 1700's).
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I'll Miss Those "Ass and Toilet Jokes"
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The way BB does them, there's a certain whimsicality about them, compared to what ELSE we see in popular culture ('Jackass', anyone?)
Many years ago I bought a stuffed Opus, with detachable reindeer antlers trimmed with Christmas tree balls, to, yes, set under the Christmas tree. Opus looks bemused, confused, a little long-suffering, and as if he wishes the whole thing would just be over, already. As I myself feel more and more just that way every Christmas, Opus is unpacked each year along with ornaments and gets set under the tree in a place of honor.
Our newspaper just brought back the BC Sunday strip a year ago, so I haven't seen it since it featured, and promptly dropped, the dismal Outland. It will be sad when the end comes, but we've all been through this before.
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She's nothing but a token, a figurehead
[Read the article: Palin watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...tossed out there because McCain is nothing special - "Hey, America, looky here! We got a woman! Look! Tits!" And that's it. No interviews because if her appalling views spilled forth too many people would see through the window dressing and be turned off. I imagine every redneck in the country stood up and applauded, all sporting boners for McCain's MILF, last week - the rest of us can just go pound salt and wait.
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Next Week - Mad Men?
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have been waiting to hear her thoughts on Mad Men. One Mad Men sounds better than all the new stuff combined - a nice ribeye steak against a pile of McDonald's burgers. But, we shall see just how tasty The Fringe, etc. is while growing old and gray waiting for Lost to come back. Got to keep our strength up somehow.
Oh, and some of us out here would LOVE to go to TGIFs, Applebees, Olive Garden, or Chili's, and would be equally thrilled to try out all those good locally owned restaurants, too. Some of us out here DO eat beans and that ilk at least a couple times a week, and actually SAVE UP for a weekend splurge of Pizza Hut or Burger King. So STF up while you are out somewhere indulging in fine dining, whatever you think that is.
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With All Due Disrespect..
[Read the article: Can I stop my aging parents from suing each other into oblivion?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...this advice sucked so massively there are no words to describe the magnitude. WTF was all that droning on about a big white house and spoon feeding momma and dadda in their old age? What shite! If there is no estate, LW, that you and your siblings can expect to inherit, I say keep out of it. If there is money/property involved, it will be gone to pay for these two idiots' shenanigans, and I say keep out of it. You must live your own life. Call each one and speak 5 minutes a month. Bring them a jar of peanut butter and a loaf of bread if they're out of food. Bring them aspirin if they are in pain. Buy them a Hanes sweatsuit if they need clothes. Do not get involved in their business, it is a losing proposition. Keep out of it. Keep out of it. Keep out of it.
Listen, both my parents sucked, too. But I always say, LIVING WELL IS THE BEST REVENGE. Live your own life and keep out of theirs.
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LW, Do the public a favor and take your jerky kid home.
[Read the article: Is my kid a jerk, or is he just 2?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I know, I know...you want to get out of the house, too, and you have to bring him along to the store, the bank, the restaurants. But if he runs amok like an ape in a banana factory, pleases grab him, put him in the car and take him home instead of wringing your hands and whining, 'oh, I can't do a THING with him'. Why make innocent bystanders suffer?... At home, all I can suggest is wait out this loathesome stage, put in some earplugs to save your hearing if need be, but provide some order, some routine, a schedule. Same old, same old, every day. Like the putting-to-bed ritual - it can easily expand into a half-hour floor show (you, the parent, being the main act) if you don't have a reasonable, simple, no-deviation schedule. If you are consistent and predictable as the sun, no matter what fuss is kicked up to change any of that, he will eventually settle in.
Hopefully as he grows older he will be more in control of his actions. Until that time, YOU will be responsible and if he besmirches public places and does physical harm, man up and take him home. ... Until then, he will continue to be, as someone commented on another board about the Family Circus melonheads, "a pants-pooping sub-moron".