Letters to the Editor
jared2
Published Letters: 222 Editor's Choice: 16
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Third World
[Read the article: How I learned to stop worrying and love the recession]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"It's tough to admit that we've turned into a Third World country, but that's the way the Flat Earth lies."
Look no further than our airports which have come to resemble Chinese train stations. Chinese airports, on the other hand, resemble US airports of the 1960's - new, clean, courteous service - in fact quite luxerious. Can it be long before we start paying snakeheads to smuggle us into China?
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Asian Food Stores
[Read the article: How I learned to stop worrying and love the recession]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Shop the asian markets: cheap, cheap, cheap"
Mrsbug
You are so right. My wife is Chinese and we save an enormous amount of money by shopping in the Chinese grocery stores. Also, the food is fresher and more varied. Many of the vegetables are unkown to westerners and are delicious. $200.00 will feed 4 people for 2 weeks, and I'm talking pork, fish, shrimp - not beans! To hell with beans!
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Co-ops
[Read the article: Flip this house. Please!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Many people in New York City live in co-ops, which seem to combine the worst aspects of home ownership with the worst aspects of apartment living. You have to buy the apartment with a mortgage. You also pay a "maintenance fee". This pays taxes, heat and maintains common areas, but you are still responsible for all repairs to your apartment - plumbing, wiring, appliances, cabinets, etc. And the maintenance fee can easily be $800.00 a month. So you have a mortgage payment plus the maintenance fee to live in a cramped apartment that was originally a rental, with all that implies - footsteps above you, neighbor's stereos, etc. I am glad to own a house in the suburbs.
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Women mechanics
[Read the article: Rosie the Six-Figure-Earning Mechanic]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In theory, it is great that women should become plumbers and car mechanics. I have never, ever seen a woman car mechanic or plumber in my life. Why? It can't just be snobbery. Could it be that these jobs frequently require a lot of sheer muscle power? Not everything can be done with power tools. Try lifting a toilet and putting it precisely in the right place. Takes strength. Some women could do it, but not many, and a lot of men couldn't either.
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Geeks
[Read the article: Geeks gone wild]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The two women engineers I know are really hot. Brains are the greatest aphrodisiac.
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Gore Vidal
[Read the article: Gore Vidal's inconvenient truths]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"the usual cockamamie theorizing about 9/11)
Whatever respect I had for Louis Bayard was lost right there. Mr. Vidal, along with many other researchers like David Ray Griffin, is right about 9/11, and has the guts to say it.
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Smugness
[Read the article: Gore Vidal's inconvenient truths]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bill, I agree completely. Salon's position on 9/11 Truth is shamefully smug. "Don't bother us with the facts" sums it up. And this coming from a so-called liberal publication. This is precisely what makes Mr. Vidal admirable. A truly independent thinker.
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Journalism
[Read the article: Gore Vidal's inconvenient truths]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Like their witless journalistic counterparts to the proto-despotisms of the past past--for example, the press in Weimar Germany--their blinkered refusal to see plots when they appear (JFK, MLK, RFK, and, yes, 911) are of a piece with their coping accommodation of the massive evils that their perpetrators hardly bother to conceal (say, the Iraqi death toll and the truly epochal financial fraud in which it is wrapped"
Well said, very well said. Journalists have become nothing more than cheerleaders, like Bush himself.
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Coffee
[Read the article: The meaning of Starbucks]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Coffee's important, people!
Coffee is important, which is why I do not go to Starbucks. A very mediocre coffee at best. I make my own from freshly ground high quality beans. Can you smell it? Lovely!