Letters to the Editor for Monday, May 6 The Daily Gazette Stop the slander and get more informed. Too often, we fire words with reckless intent to smear and demean. A recent writer’s brash claim, “Many Americans are … Source link
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Our own mad emperor? | Letters to Editor
Emperor Caligula was Rome’s third emperor between 37 AD and 41 AD. He is mostly remembered for his narcissistic tendencies, insecurity and vulgarity and was dubbed Rome’s Mad Emperor. Caligula inherited the empire as the adopted grandson of Tiberius who died in self-exile on Capri island after an uninspiring end to his reign and much was expected. Get caught up with news from the news leaderSubscribe now and get access to the Trinidad Express E-paperSUBSCRIBE/ LOG IN Source link
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LETTER: Opportunity for Pentucket will only come once | Letters To The Editor
To the editor: In the 1993 crime drama “True Romance,” mobster Vincenzo Coccotti (played by Christopher Walken) utters a chilling threat after smashing a man’s nose: “What I have to offer you, that’s as good as it’s gonna get. And it won’t ever get that good again.” While Groveland, Merrimac and West Newbury are – I’d like to think – well-insulated from sociopathic crime lords, the excerpt is a fitting synopsis of where we stand with the Pentucket high school/middle school building project. In short, we won’t ever again have a better chance to fix this problem the right way – the fiscally and socially responsible way. Act prudently, everyone…
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Letter to the Editor: Royalty of The ‘Elders’
Submitted by Dr. Dennis Walter Smith Sr. Reminiscent about those Saturday mornings on the lake telling the old guy, in a seven-year-old voice, “You have to put the worm on first Grandpa before you throw the line in the water.” Pause for chuckle, because the normal response was, “I know, I’m just keeping you on your little toes”. What about those golden nuggets of advice that seem endless, but never annoying? Society 40-50 years ago, revered the elders in the community as common-place respect! Today’s social climate is canvased with a new-aged arrogance that gives new meaning to narcissism! Once a treasured voice of reason and a [calm-in-the-storm]; the significance of…
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Wednesday’s Letters to the Editor
Political help needed Dear editor: A recent writer is correct that there were no announcements, public meetings, nor mailings to current members before the February 2018 special election forming the Lake Hamilton Fire District. The only clue was a Sentinel-Record story about the events at a Garland County board meeting where the special election was approved. The Lake Hamilton Volunteer Fire Association always acted in privacy with only their friends and volunteers attending meetings to vote on items. That was fine when it was a volunteer association. Now, with their “political clout,” they were able to get state laws passed to form a fire district and receive a lot of…
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Letters to the editor: Shambhala hypocrisy; importance of PE
Shambhala hypocrisy harms validity of communal spiritual practice Anteceding the arrest of a ex-Shambhala USA teacher William Karelis for suspicion of sexual assault on a child and the concurrent opening of a criminal investigation into the sexual misconduct allegations against the lineage holder/leader of the Shambhala USA, Mipham Rinpoche, it is relevant to remember that sexual assault and sex/clergy misconduct are not behaviors that are permitted as meritorious by the foundational noncrazy wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism — the law of the five precepts (pañcasila) specifically. The founding patriarch of Shambhala USA, Chögyam Trungpa, hailed from the Kagyü lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He founded Shambhala USA and Naropa University. He was…
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Letters to the editor
Push to end suspensions disservice to kids trying The recently released report on school discipline by Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, reported in this newspaper, has nothing good to say about suspending students. Predictably, these advocates did not say that suspending students is an act of kindness to teachers and fairness to students who behave and are trying to learn. Kids who misbehave — and these days that word is inadequate — keep other kids from learning. It changes the learning atmosphere for the whole school when you remove disrespectful, disruptive students from the classroom. Teachers dread having suspended students return. Arkansas Advocates don’t know this, but the kids…
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Letters to the editor – Curry Coastal Pilot
Letters to the editor Curry Coastal Pilot Jihad on Congress Is this a matched set when it comes to ignorance. They seem to have no understanding they are in office to serve the people, not their own … Source link
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Letters to the editor of the Boston Globe Magazine
Consumption Concerns Thank you, Jenai Engelhard, for bringing some common sense and philosophy to the diet debate (Perspective, January 13). Control over diet is a poor substitute for control over life. The one word you might have added is “narcissism.” I think there is a connection between Facebook and diet that reflects the narcissism of our time. Melvin Scovell Cambridge I take great exception to Engelhard’s article that blithely assumes all of us who have chosen a way of eating [have done so] due to a need to be seen as special, or to fill some unmet religious need, or maybe to be fashionable, or maybe to find a quick…
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Letters to the Editor, Feb. 24 – Toronto Sun
Letters to the Editor, Feb. 24 Toronto Sun LIBERAL ARROGANCEThere’s an old saying ‘all good/bad things must come to an end,’ and I can’t understand why we address politicians with the words ‘right … Source link