Letters to the Editor
jared2
Published Letters: 223 Editor's Choice: 16
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I screw the credidtcard companies
[Read the article: My big, fat, unpaid credit card bill]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I love credit card companies. They work for me. I have not paid a penny in interest in over 10 years (and very little before that) I have 1 main visa card and charge everything to it, keeping a small amount of cash for purchases under $20.00. I always pay the balance in full. This means I get an interest free loan from the time my new statement period begins (around the 26 of the month) until the bill is due (around the 20th of the second month) I get about 7 weeks of free money. In addition, I have all the convenience of using a credit card (cash and coins is really primitive) and free online accounting. So I get free money, free accounting and convenient payment, all for nothing. You just have to decide that you are the boss and the card companies are your servants. [Don't try this without discipline and self-control]
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Deadbeats
[Read the article: My big, fat, unpaid credit card bill]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks, Betty
I had to laugh at my last statement. I charged over $4,000 over Christmas and the bank "generously" offered to reduced the minimum payment from $40.00 to $15.00. Of course, I paid the full $4,000.
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Strawberry
[Read the article: My big, fat, unpaid credit card bill]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I made a lot more mistakes than you, but that was 30 years ago. Since then I've become perfact. (Almost)
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Bad Things
[Read the article: My big, fat, unpaid credit card bill]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Bad things, terrible things, happen to people every day, things beyond their control or wildest imagination that can ruin them in a heartbeat. And no amount of planning, budgeting, or sanctimonious pontificating by internet blowhards is going to be able to stop it."
This is true for the US. Medical bills do not bankrupt people in Sweden or France or Canada. Internet pontificating won't do a thing. Demanding actions from politicians might. Remember, Canadians had to fight the medical establishment for a health care system back in the sixties. They won; Americans lost.
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Stripping
[Read the article: I'm a nude dancer trying to finish my Ph.D.]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Do it. Later, it will attract male students to your classes, and some female ones.
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Stripping
[Read the article: I'm a nude dancer trying to finish my Ph.D.]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You will probably find stripping much more lucrative and less humiliating than university teaching.
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Two words
[Read the article: Time to start over]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Scarlatti.Wonderful.
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Hillary
[Read the article: Clinton gets her party started]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"on the day shift, on the night shift, on the late shift with the crying baby ... all those who aren't in the headlines but who have always written America's story."
I loved this line. Nothing is funnier than elite people talk'in 'bout shift work 'n day care, 'n unemployment - things they know nothing about having never experienced them. Hillary looks wonderful compared with Bush, but then anyone looks wonderful compared with Bush. Frankly, she is not a great speaker, but who cares? I would vote for anyone who can promise (and hopefully actually deliver) universal health care. Obama has about as much substance as cotton candy. If these two deomcratic candidates are the best the plutocracy can serve up, so be it, I'll take Hillary. Beggars can't be choosers, though we are sold the illusion that we are.
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Go Gay?
[Read the article: How does a single father ever get laid?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"That said, my funny advice is... Go Gay!"
Given the writer's quite inexplicable reticience with the babysitter, this advice may be redundant.
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Fiction
[Read the article: How does a single father ever get laid?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's just say this book belongs firmly in the "fiction" category - "male fantasy" to be specific, one of the larger sections in the bookstore.
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Calories
[Read the article: The upside to peak fertilizer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How can organic food, without massive energy and fertilizer inputs supply enough calories to feed 6 billion people? Without oil and gas to make fertilizer, we starve. End of story. Of course, mass starvation will solve our energy problems, but not in a good way.
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Les Stroud
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The "survivorman" has faced being adrift in the open, shark-infested ocean, being baked at 135 degrees in the desert with nothing to eat but scorpions and rattlesnakes, lonely nights in the frozen tundra of the Canadian Arctic and the crocodile-infested waters of tropical swamps, but I doubt if even he could survive punishment like this.
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Animals
[Read the article: What I wouldn't do for my cat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I love animals too. Wild animals. Bluejays, Cardinals, squirrels, racoons - all live their own lives and it gives me pleasure to see them in my back yard. When they die, they die. They don't worry about it and neither do I. I don't really understand the desire to "own" pets. If I did have a pet I loved, I would pay for all expenses within a reasonable limit. But I prefer watching wild animals any day.
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Animals
[Read the article: What I wouldn't do for my cat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They great thing about wild animals is that they do not exist to massage human egos. The whole rationale of pet ownership is worth examining.
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Pets
[Read the article: What I wouldn't do for my cat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am not going to get up every day and work hard to a lazy cat can sleep all day and wait for the idiot to come home and feed her. I can see having a sheep dog if you are a shepherd. Any other pet is essentially a lapdog, and I don't like the idea of working for a lapdog.
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Pets
[Read the article: What I wouldn't do for my cat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just don't understand the whole idea. Cats should be out there hunting mice, not cuddled in some basket waiting for a meal. Humans are distorting the lives of animals by making them into "pets". I can understand a working relationship with animals - cats keeping rats under control, dogs herding sheep, etc. And I have no problem with breeding animals for food as long as they are given good living conditions and killed quickly and painlessly (I know the conditions are terrible and this should change). But to treat an adult cat as a "baby" is something that I really don't understand. Same with fish in an aquarium or birds in a cage - let them out!
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Pets
[Read the article: What I wouldn't do for my cat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I get lots of companionship and affection from my (human) family. I expect cats to get their companionship and affection from cats.