Messages By: marianparoo

A 26 year friendship and sometimes love affair recently ended. It was ending (friendship, we hadn't been sexually involved for a number of years) for quite some time already, and this spring petered out.

I still don't know if I am glad that's what happened or if I'm sorry that I never told her off, because I felt she deserved it a number of times!

First I'll be perfectly frank and say that I think these pageants are dumb.

Second, if a girl enters, she knows the rules.

So, she has to play by them, and that's that.

Since we get shows with a big delay, I only saw this one today.

So has their been a follow up?

I can understand that they are sick and/or evil, take your choice.

What I cannot understand is a parent who puts their relationship with anybody else over their child.

A lot of people imply that lack of conviction is the fault of "liberal" judges, but if you look at laws, some them were passed decades ago, when the conservative attitudes against children made it very hard to convict rapists, especially when the rapist was a family member.

I remember in the '70s when it became easier for the justice system to convict rapists of adult women, many legislators were against making it easy to get a conviction for incest and child rape. Reason: "Children lie."

I have zero tolerance for any cell phone use while driving. I don't care if it is hands on, hands off texting. Anything.

Here this is an enormous problem, but as for all violations while driving, including those that result in death, the punishements are a sick joke.

There is absolutely no justification, short of calling an ambulance or the police, that justify any cell phone use when driving.

Marian (Tel-Aviv, Israel)

PS - Have also seen cyclists using cell phonee, although not texting while on the roac.

Me, I can't understand the teen in cases like this.

Never mind the whole argument about adultery.

What is she thinking? As a ten does she really want to become Ms. Whatshisname with step kids so early in life?!

Fly the Iranian airline. You'll get women all covered up there for sure, and for all I know, there may be separate seating for women.

I hate seeing people  anywhere, men or women, dress a way I consider "cheap." On the other hand, when some people make a point of throwing their piety in my face by the way they dress I don't like it either.

I mean chill out folks. As long as there is no dress code, they shouldn't have hassled her.

I have an Orthodox Jewish coworker (I'm Jewish myself, but secular), who's even more Orthodox daughter had a nose job - in Israel yet!

My snoz is pretty ethnic but I never dreamed of having it done - and here this very religious girl who considers me "not Jewish enough"  and uses the term "chosen people" daily, but isn't satisfied with the "chosen nose" that goes with it.

LOL!