Letters to the Editor
david sugarman
Published Letters: 2385 Editor's Choice: 3
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i've spoken to the contraimusians on the other thread, so i ought to tell you how to change things. buy Salon.
[Read the article: Kos gets a pass this week]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]not all of it, of course, but stock. it's selling at $1.50/shr (info at http://www.otcbb.com/asp/Info_Center.asp?symbol=SLNM however, it's thinly traded (2500 shrs fri - info at the site), so you'll have to get together (difficult, since you don't speak to one another, but Karen M has a knitting circle) and have a plan (buy directly, letter stock) or, on the other hand, you can speculate as is often done with penny stock. you can attend the yearly conference and squawk or get together and talk to major investors like John E. Warnock and Jann Wenner. get in on the ground floor. rule the living room, the classroom, the bedroom. make the rules. hire the bouncer.
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who are you going to make the check out to?
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you're *both* anonymous? how about "david sugarman"? now for you, Vox1, i've been trying to make sense of "Black women, all women, actually, live with the threat of insult and physical violence (from men) in ways that men simply do not." it can only be *threats* that are never carried out. ask any cop (they are the white woman's friend) who gets threatened, beaten, killed more, men or women? walsh, for heaven's sake has never even been *hit*! NO man could say that! now, you can say they mouthed off, were drunk - asked for it in other words. and you'd get agreement from most men. but men bear by far the brunt of all physical retaliation. we just don't call the cops.
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as i'm from NYC (where only the criminals have guns)
[Read the article: I'm almost 21. Should I buy some guns?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]these comments have been fascinating. i've only fired a gun once, when i was 12 (and it, .22). it was easy and sort of boring. as for collecting - people collect all sorts of strange things and get really interested in them. who am i to choose for them whether it's stamps, old cars, guns or model trains. even here, you can get a black powder gun. but (as must be the reason for its legality), who wants to go to that much effort? the true aficianato. you can buy one of those. how about some civil war replica? they must have them there. or, again, you can have the "toy" experience (and twirl it as much as you please) with one of those uber-realistic toy pistols, the ones that get black children killed over here. (too many *known* people over here get killed by guns for us to totally forget what it can do). as for actual working pistols, i'm with Ken Erfourth on that one. it's either give up drinking - ever, or have a pistol. i know what can happen when i drink. i am fearless. i am belligerent (was, know more my limits now, at 61 - but still like a pint now and then). and i "somehow" get into fights. i want the worst that can happen is i get a couple of stitches around my eyes. (yes, i *always* lose). finally, if you are going to use the handle "Anonymous", you forfeit the use of "I".
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Ms Walsh, i've gotten annoyed by the use of Anonymous with posts that are not at all personal
[Read the article: Kos gets a pass this week]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]unless they are personal *attacks*. (this, for once, is "on topic" if indirectly). first, a ruling. if it's a flame and definitely from a man, can i call him "pussy"? it's not anatomical in that connotation, it's a reflection on his courage. second, how about (theoretically, since the programming would be complicated), not allowing the use of "I" or "me" if tagged "Anonymous". if you forfeit your handle, you forfeit your personal pronoun. maybe *all* personal pronouns, after all, what is "you" without its relation to "me"? just justice to me.
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Imus redux? I'm Imus "brought back"? - that's insulting.
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]i don't automatically think of "rape" as the sum total of "insult and physical violence". that's why i reacted as i did. "and then grow hostile when there is no response" - has that been your experience? not my daughter's. she ignores and it seems to work, but if we are walking together it eases her mind because (particularly) black men don't bother her (she's biracial). i don't know what "bother" really means, nor do i like it. in that sense, ms walsh has a point. she's been followed by car and had to search out others to feel safe. you can't imagine i want anything like that to happen to *any* woman, but we were just speaking theoretically. i don't want to get into comparisons, it's impossible to compare pain. is rape the equivalent of crippling? blinding? of course women are weaker, in general, than men. so are children. they are hit *plenty* and *hard* and it must be *awful* to them. some outgrow it and some don't. what i *don't* want to equate is fear inducing *real* threats and Imus talk or most (there must be some instance of trolling that turned to stalking, that turned to violence) trolling. what i seem to be objecting to is what a "reasonable person" in the legal sense, would find threatening and what is mere insult. i don't think we want to get rid of insult, but you do, yes? what about an insufferable, contemptuous or arrogant manner? "ho" versus "girl" (equally offensive, coming from a white man - it can't even be laughed off), what about "lady", sneered? "My only point was that as more women and blacks enter arenas they were not in before, the rules of the game will change. They will bring their sensibilities with them." and it is a good point - directly to the point. but this is the net. highly individual. even Salon has only 64 employees(i believe this passes the barrier for the various employment rules). i think all the discrimination clauses start at 20 employees. many online businesses, especially those that contract out work, don't have as many. the net will remain, in the foreseeable future, free of such. and as women and blacks change the rules, the businesses that don't want those rules will migrate to the net. as stern migrated to satellite.
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GOSH!
[Read the article: Embarrassment of riches]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Germans are so SICK!!
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Gosh! you gun owners are so SANE!
[Read the article: I'm almost 21. Should I buy some guns?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]what do you think of gun control? (specifically, owners and once-owners who gave them up for family reasons)