Letters to the Editor
coastcow
Published Letters: 26
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I've got five bucks
[Read the article: My wife thinks I'm cheating on her -- but I'm not!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I got five bucks that says the sailor's wife already cheated on him, feels guilty, and is trying to turn it around to blame him. She hopes that if he comes clean and admits that he cheated, she's absolved. Seen it several times before. Friends perplexed as to why their wives suddenly and violently confront them with accusations of infidelity. Every time, it turned out his wife had cheated on him. Always was the case, likely to be the case this time. He should ask some questions of his own. I've also heard this story with the man/woman roles reversed, where the man accuses his wife, though he's the one who cheated. That's pretty low, to cheat on your patriotic spouse while he or she is overseas, serving our nation--no matter what you think of the war. Supporting the troops starts at home. My advice: Hire a detective and a lawyer.
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Let them fail!
[Read the article: Our best friends are scarily, heedlessly in debt]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let your friends fail! People like me, saddled by student loan debt and medical bills without the safety of insurance could benefit from a few million more in our boat. When everyone has big debt and bad credit, the banks will have no choice but to deal with us. The rich can only mortgage so many homes, buy so many boats, so many cars. Let everybody fail, and the financiers will have to deal with us eventually. Congress gave the banks a great deal a couple years ago, letting them write their own legislation for the bankruptcy bill. Let everybody fail, until all the banks fail, and then they will come back to us with great deals and and free toasters! Tell your friends to spend like drunken sailors, damn the consequences. Tell them credit is like free money, and that the only downside is annoying phone calls. Buy $5 coffees and premium gas! Bottled water only! Leave all the lights on, and heat your home with baby seal blubber! Tell your friends that they are worth it. Nothing less than the best. Eat out more often. Buy premium vodka.
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Hillary
[Read the article: On the fake campaign trail]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't really have a problem with her planting a few questions in the audience in order to get her point accross--after all, she's got a whole lot of people in the opposition making stuff up about her. It's certainly less of a sham than Dubya only allowing friendly press to cover his appearances--or that joke of a FEMA "press conference" concerning the fires in California. That's the shit we should be angry about. That said, I attended a Hillary rally in Somersworth, NH last week, and (being a local)I noticed that some of the people asking questions were related to people working for her campaign. The only part I really found offensive was that the campaign planted a couple Girl Scouts to ask her if she'd been a Scout. Of course she was. She then responded with the Girl Scout song, "Make Friends," or something like that. I don't know the title, but every Scout does. Lyrics are something like, "Make new friends, but keep the old/some are silver and the others are gold." Huge applause. I wanted to vomit, it was so staged.
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Update
[Read the article: On the fake campaign trail]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I thought I'd clarify a couple things after my last post--Hillary might not be my first choice, but I'd vote for her over any of the candidates on the right that pander to the christofascist element of the electorate. Truthfully, anyone who would tell Pat Robertson or James Dobson to piss up a rope would get my vote. The christofascist right is going to destroy this great nation if given half a chance. Are you listening McCain? Huckabee? Tancredo? Thompson? If you stay out of my government, I'll stay out of your church. Promise.
And another thing: Hold the current occupant resposible for these no-bid contracts to immoral scumbags like Halliburton and Blackwater. A war criminal is a war criminal. I don't care what Dubya says. What ever happened to the concept of war profiteering? Is it still a crime? Eisenhower was right. The military-industrial complex will doom us all.
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Let's hope
[Read the article: Goodbye, Mr. Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now that Mr. Blumenthal is working for Hillary, let's hope he keeps her honest if elected. I think that a lot of people running for potus might be thankful that Dubya did the hard work of turning the office into a dictatorship not beholden to the Constitution. It would be easy for the next occupant to coast on the previous administration's acheivements in scuttling the Constitution. The next president has to restore law and order to the office. After all, it might be a serious temptation to act as Dubya does, especially since the media (for the most part) has rolled over and let Dubya do anything he wants, damn the consequences. The next president has to give back some of the power the current occupant has claimed illegally.
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go ahead, change your name
[Read the article: Should I take my husband's name?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Take his name. Ten years from now, when you won't blow him anymore, you can always point out that you did at least take his name.
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I hate to quibble
[Read the article: Who wants to be a millionaire -- on strike?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I hate to quibble, but Lance Armstrong won seven (seven!) Tours de France.
Also, while I generally support the writers on this issue, I have to point out that the WGA are real douchebags about letting new talent break into the business. I mean, wouldn't we really be better off if Peter Tolan never wrote a script again? Can't they host an open house now and then to give folks who never wrote for "According to Jim" a first look? I mean, all the studios are scared shitless to read anything that didn't come from the Guild, and you can't get into the Guild until you have a studio buy your script. I don't want to get all Catch-22 on you, but wtf?