Letters to the Editor
area woman
Published Letters: 168 Editor's Choice: 9
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usability note
[Read the article: "Hancock"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If I click on what looks like a link to a particular review on the Salon home page, it's because I want to go to THAT REVIEW, not a "movies" page or anywhere else. If I wanted to read the other reviews, I would read them. And it's neat that you have consolidated links to all the reviews in one "Movies" page, but if I've already selected the review I want, that is not information I need at that time.
The extra click is annoying. Please link reviews from main page directly to the review text.
Thanks.
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I'm really at a loss as to why they can't/won't produce a Smart car that gets better mileage
[Read the article: Test drive: The Smart car is revolutionary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I drive a well-maintained, mid-90s Corolla with a manual transmission. I get 34 mpg in mixed-use driving, sometimes better. Granted, I'm exceeding the "ratings" for my car, but I'm not sure how--I cruise along at 75 or 80 on the freeway, just like everyone else around here, just like I poke along in second in local city traffic (just like everyone else around here).
From what I hear, new safety features add weight to cars. But it seems like Honda and Toyota have been pushing the envelope on mileage improvements, and I imagine they will continue to do so. It's disappointing that Smart, which is selling something even smaller than the Fit or the Yaris, can't match the mileage ratings.
Fortunately, my car has a few years left in it (another benefit of Toyotas--they run forever, and mine doesn't even have 100K on it, despite its age). Guess I'll wait for a plug-in hybrid or something.
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May I suggest lobbying for universal healthcare?
[Read the article: I survived -- now how do I survive my survival?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...not to be confused with universal health insurance, which merely gives everyone an equal opportunity to be jerked around by an insurance company, but universal healthCARE.
I bet you will meet other cancer survivors. Even if you don't, you'll meet people who are interested in your story.
You'll be working towards something that would benefit you and other people who are/will be in your situation.
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"In other words, people are attracted to the story because staring at Beatie's body -- the large stomach protruding from his manly chest -- is both an unsettling and captivating experience"
[Read the article: What the Pregnant Man didn't deliver]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Seriously? Who (what American, anyway) has never seen a guy with a beer gut???
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Move along, nothing to see here
[Read the article: What the Pregnant Man didn't deliver]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I saw the hype (with a picture of Beatie) before he appeared on Oprah--I was interested enough that I may well have watched the show, if I hadn't had something else scheduled. I thought that they'd finally found a way for people born without a uterus to have kids! Wow! That's a huge medical breakthrough!
Then I found Beatie was a transman who had been born a woman. Damn. How disappointing!
Fact is, this story is about someone making use of the "spare parts" in his body, and that's all. Body parts with a known biological purpose, at that.
I'd be much more interested in someone who'd figured out how to use his appendix.
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re: bearpaw1
[Read the article: American epitaph: "More is more"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Down, boy."
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amused by Brin's comments (denied through a spokesbot, of course)
[Read the article: Harvard for toddlers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He went to Stanford. How did it escape his attention that most Stanford students (then grads, then Google employees) come fully equipped with an enormous sense of entitlement?
Having gotten that bit of snark out of the way, it's hard to know where to start with the mess they've created.
The fact is, though, that their preference has ALWAYS been for employees just out of school--they continue providing the types of perks so that people who work there don't really have to graduate to taking care of the normal tasks of adulthood, starting with being fed three meals a day (plus snacks!). I suspect that this is part of a campaign to weed out the parents, because, well, they have lives outside Google.
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Keep looking, Captain Kirk
[Read the article: Where do all the old cellphones go?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There are charities besides Goodwill who will take them--often the same ones who will take old computers.
As it happens, the Goodwill stores in my area DO accept computers--but not old TVs or cell phones. I ended up donating all of that stuff (computers, old TV, and phone) to a group called Graybears. (And I will get a tax writeoff, provided I come up with enough other stuff to make itemizing worth it this year. There's a first time for everything!)
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nothing good has come for anyone I know who did something because they "feel like they should want to do it"
[Read the article: My company wants me to move to California ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't do it. And I'm not just saying that because I DO live in California, and think there are enough people here already. ;)
1) If you'd been out here once, and thought you didn't like it, I'd say visit first, and give it another chance. But if you've already been here multiple times and think it's not for you--then it's not! (You can also like a place, but not want to live there.)
2) If you make the move and it doesn't work out, then where are you? You're away from your network, your family, friends, and former colleagues who can help you get another job. If you stay put and something goes awry, you still have all those things.
3) Yes, property, rented or bought, is obscenely expensive out here. If the salary being offered won't make up the difference, the job is NOT WORTH IT. You also mentioned needing to sell your expensive furniture to move--if they aren't even covering relo--it's DEFINITELY NOT WORTH IT!
4) Thinking, "Well, I SHOULD be excited about this," means that your gut is telling you not to do it, but that your brain is trying to rationalize. "Should" isn't what matters. What you actually feel matters.
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"Well, or do you taze the entire plane because one idiot decides to question authority"
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Of course! Don't you remember elementary school?
"Well, you're all just going to sit here until the person responsible admits to putting the tack on my chair."
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"SOME people couldn't play with these toys without shoving, so now NO ONE gets to play with them. I hope you're happy , because you're ruined it for everyone."
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btw...
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That last sentence should read,
"SOME people couldn't play with these toys without shoving, so now NO ONE gets to play with them. I hope you're happy (glares darkly at responsible parties), because you've ruined it for everyone."