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Bruce Fehl

Published Letters: 5

Monday, September 15, 2008 09:28 AM

Palin needs a public psychological evaluation.

With regard to everything we have heard about Governor Palin, it would be a reasonable request for the press to ask her for a public psychological evaluation, by a well informed secular psychologist. I think it would take just thirty minutes on the couch for everyone to understand just how bereft of logical faculties this person is. I think her party and the world for that matter would have no choice but to dismiss her as a charming little lunatic who almost slipped under the radar. We could all wipe the sweat off our brow, and say, “whew, that was a close one.”

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 09:48 AM

What drama?

It did not seem as though this white-haired, eccentric, bifocaled professor, Trudy, got the chance to be anything more then your prejudice towards her allowed. You are right to feel guilty. It is not right to have someone removed from your pretentious presence simply because you cannot control your ambivalent emotions. I imagine this is not the first time you have disrupted another individuals life and probably not the last.

Gary was way too easy on you. He merely scratched the surface when he wrote about your petty concerns of anothers disorganization. If things like the organizational habits and how you feel about another persons hygiene will lead you to being so distracted that you can’t even do your job, you'll need to work alone. Try to get your own office, or try working on your concentration skills. You are easily overwhelmed by others, so ease up a little.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 01:07 PM

What is being said here?

This article is convoluted and opaque. Just what point is being made here, I don’t see one. Is this gossip? The writer hasn’t proved any influence that, and this is an incredulous term, “the first dude” has over Governor Palin’s work. This article is a waste of space that is meaningless and therefore should have never been published. Read it once more if you don’t believe me.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 01:08 PM

What is being said here?

This article is convoluted and opaque. Just what point is being made here, I don’t see one. Is this gossip? The writer hasn’t proved any influence that, and this is an incredulous term, “the first dude” has over Governor Palin’s work. This article is a waste of space that is meaningless and therefore should have never been published. Read it once more if you don’t believe me.

Monday, September 22, 2008 07:15 PM
Original article: The cost of leaving

Sounds more like an issue with depression.

I'm not quite convinced that money was the catalyst to a break up in this story, as the writer suggests. The writer went into great detail with regard to the financial woes in her struggling marriage, but failed to mention the emotional aspects with such detail. In fact, hardly any details of emotional conflict were mentioned. I wanted her to unveil the emotional struggle with her husband, because as a reader I am left only with the words she used to describe her own emotions: “stress” “pain” “loss of self-esteem,” which are all words when describing feelings of clinical depression.

As a reader, I can only deduce that her mental depression was the actual catalyst for the break up of her marriage and that financial struggles are what actually caused her depression. Unfortunately, the writer leads me to no other deduction. This deduction is not what the writer is explicitly suggesting, but what is the reader to infer without further evidence of the emotional struggle she claims to have had with her husband. I think she maybe hiding something with regard to her husband, and it would have helped me to understand her story if she had been as candid about her relationship with her husband as she was about her financial affairs

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