Love-Hate Mail
Rain on her parade
I’m
not quarreling with the selection of Lisa Patton for “The Lust List”
(Feb. 7), but I‘d like to explain to her that a weekend without rain is
not necessarily a good one, as she is prone to say. Perhaps there are
many Middle Tennesseans who do not realize it, but large parts of our
farmlands are in a drought situation. Along with leaving off the advice
about what type clothing to wear for the evening or the next day, I’d
also like to remind her that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
Perhaps the best thing to do is just report the weather and leave the
editorializing to the talk show folks.
STEVE CATES
appdancer@aol.com (Murfreesboro)
Wronging the righteous
About
Matt Pulle’s article (“Tuckered Out,” Feb. 7), I was quite appalled by
your ill-spirited outtakes on Carolyn Baldwin Tucker, an individual who
is expressing her love for Christ and standing up for what is right. It
is about time someone stood up against those who are anti-Christ—you
being one of them. Just because you don’t believe in Jesus, who died
for your sins and mine, don’t hold it against a politician who has done
a heck of a job in the school system just because of your corrupted,
immoral, individualistic outlook. By the way, the last time I checked,
it’s people like you that cause Columbine or other school shootings to
happen because you want prayer, the Ten Commandments, Christians and
every other precious good out of the school system. That’s what’s wrong
with America today. Be blessed and have a nice life. But leave the
morally righteous people alone.
NARIKA KENDRICK
nsk2a@hotmail.com (Nashville)
Defining defiling
Perhaps
a few days in a Tennessee state prison would enlighten Sen. Doug
Henry’s opinion on rape (Confederacy of Dunces, Feb. 7). Let’s see what
kind of “act” he doesn’t want to “go forward with.”
ANNA RUSHWORTH
vanillademille@hotmail.com (Nashville)
Don’t go in the swamp!
Walter Jowers is one of my all-time favorite newspaper columnists, right up there with Dave Barry or Mike Royko of the Chicago Tribune.
As a conscientious carpenter, I can tell you that his screeds on
building standards and home inspection in this town are right on target.
I
also agree with his views on accumulations of consumer crap (“Clutter
Control,” Feb. 7). A lot of demand for my services is to build shelving
and storage spaces for this junk. But his suggestion that the way to
get rid of this stuff is to pitch it into swamps and wetlands down by
the creek is appalling. Our Nashville alleys are strewn with trash
illegally thrown out by people with this attitude. We’ve got to develop
social systems to recycle all the usable materials and learn to call
Public Works at 880-1000 for free bulk item pickup of the unusable junk
too big to fit in our recycle bins and Dumpsters.
KARL MEYER
karlmeyerng@hotmail.com (Nashville)
Straight shooter
Just when you believe the Scene
can’t sink any lower than “The Other Volz” (Jan. 17), along comes Mr.
Jeff Woods to lower the bar a few more notches (“Gun Play,” Feb. 7). I
don’t know if Mr. Woods’ extremely poor attempt at journalism is
cloaked in hoplophobia or if it is truly an amateur attempt at writing,
but please allow me to correct Mr. Woods on a few things he never
seemingly bothered to check or simply ignored altogether.
First of all, his mentioning of the proposed law to let “supposedly law-abiding citizens carry pistols into saloons” reeks of both bias as well as inaccuracy. There is no “supposedly law-abiding” when one is issued a handgun carry permit. There is an in-depth background check involved.
Next, it’s not “saloons,” Mr. Woods, it’s restaurants! You know: T.G.I. Friday’s, Applebee’s, Red Lobster, where food is actually served and eaten. Perhaps Mr. Woods should remove himself from a bar long enough to learn the difference. Folks moving back and forth from their cars to restaurants are prime pickings for muggers, robbers and/or rapists. Only recently, the assistant manager of an O’Charley’s in Murfreesboro was killed by an armed robber despite complying with the robber’s demands. It still cost him his life, and he left behind a wife and young children.
The proposed law would allow a permit holder to eat in one of these restaurants as long as they do not consume alcohol, for those who may not know. This would allow countless businesswomen to meet, eat and then leave without the worry about being attacked or raped on the way back to their car in a darkened parking lot or garage. Perhaps Mr. Woods prefers these women to be available for such attacks?
Also, Mr. Woods writes of “the state’s all-powerful gun lobby—the Tennessee Firearms Association.” As I understand it, the TFA has fewer than 500 members spread across the entire state. Split that number among Tennessee’s 95 counties, and this is not exactly what I envision when I think of “all-powerful.” Obviously Mr. Woods uses much lower criteria.
Dare I hope the Scene will quit hammering on The Tennessean
losing writers long enough to clean up their own house? You could
actually start by hiring writers who graduated high school and know how
to check their facts before you publish their articles.
BOB COLE
bobsguns@comcast.net (Nashville)
What is substitutive purgation?
A
never-ending loop, the WSMV-Channel 4 Snowbird jingle certainly can
play forever in one’s head (The Fabricator, Feb. 7). How to make it
stop? It’s very similar to the Jeopardy theme, but not nearly
as memorable. Whenever I found the Snowbird tune pervading my
consciousness, I would mentally drown it out with Jeopardy,
which fortunately does come to a close. Not only did this give
immediate relief, but also the more-familiar melody seemed to overwrite
the Snowbird jingle. In time, I’ve found it difficult to even recall
WSMV’s insidious school-closings soundtrack.
TIM SHAW
tnshaws2000@bellsouth.net (Smyrna)
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