Love/Hate Mail
Hot Seat
In response to your article about [Tennessee’s] electric chair and any unnecessary pain and burning it might cause the ”sitter“ (”Machinery of Death,“ Feb. 17) . I’m sorry, what did these people do to be on death row? [The answer] for these two losers in particular—and I’d bet any other death-row inmate—is something pretty gosh darn awful. So why on this earth would I care how much it hurt them to be put to death? It should hurt. They’re lucky I don’t get to make the rules. They’d be given to the families of the victims and the families would, of course, be issued Louisville Slugger baseball bats and forks.
Kris Keyser
keysergroup@mindspring.com. (Nashville)
On the Prowl
Kudos to Michael Sims (”God’s Dog,“ Feb. 24). When I first moved into my present home in 1983 we had a family of foxes on the property. In about 1990-91 the foxes disappeared. Later, maybe 1994-95, one evening I looked out the window and saw a coyote crossing between the house and the wooded area at the rear. Now, on occasion, we hear them yipping up in the hills behind us. Since the late ’50s I’ve spent many a month in the Wyoming/Montana area, fishing. I recall walking along a road with a coyote paralleling me maybe 20 yards distant. I’ve always thought they were neat critters. So maybe your article will help stem the ”kill ‘em all“ attitude. [However,] they will mate with dogs and the result is not what most folks want for a pet.
Ray L. Walker
raylwalker@mindspring.com. (Brentwood)
Rub It In
While I agree with the premise of last week’s editorial ”Sex, Part II“ (Mar. 2), as a Tennessee-state licensed massage therapist, I’m impelled to point out that your listing of ”massage parlors“ along with strip clubs and sexually-related bookstores is not only politically incorrect, but inaccurate.
The same relatively recent state law requiring licensing of all massage therapists and establishments also makes it illegal to use the word ”massage“ in any advertising for anything other than licensed, legitimate, therapeutic, non-sexual massage.
If someone is looking in the Yellow Pages for sex, they’ll no longer find it under a massage parlor listing.
Careless usage of this obsolete term only serves to continue an unfortunate association that real massage therapists are working hard to distance themselves from.
William Rusty Chest
1028 Iverson Ave., Nashville
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