Last week's feature about long-term restaurants in Las Vegas, "The Best Frog Legs in Town," merited this response:
What an excellent article about our "old-school" restaurants. It's quite refreshing to read about genuine owner-operated places that have stood the test of time in our town, especially since none would likely be mentioned in one of our daily papers' so-called "Best Of" poll.
And while we are on the subject of legs, who is that stunning woman in the Love Jones ad on page 44?
Just wanted to drop a few lines to express how handy The Las Vegas Weekly was upon my recent visit to Las Vegas. The magazine was an excellent tour guide, and I recommend it to all my friends who are going to Las Vegas for the first time or for the 100th time.
I was happy to find the Weekly online, because of your wonderful writer Sonja! She truly has a wonderful gift for expressing her personal thoughts on life, relationships, etc., that resonate in all of us. Her writing style is very poetic, and she has an uncanny writing style that brings the reader into her personal emotional circle. I read all sorts of books and magazines, and her writing style is quite unique and fresh, as opposed to other authors, who write on a national level.
The Las Vegas Weekly is quite fortunate to have such a fine writer! Your magazine is good, but with Sonja it is the best!
Once again, thank you for your fine publication.
As the state chairman for the Independent American Party, I would like to once again thank the ACLU for standing up for the God-given rights of religion, press and speech, as it fought for suspended Liberty High School junior Kim Jacobs.
Jacobs had refused to live by Liberty High School's "New American Atheist Civil Religion" dress code that did not allow her to wear a T-shirt that contained both religious and political speech. GOOD FOR HER. We should all stand up against such tyranny! We should all question authority and remember the words of Thomas Jefferson that "Dissent is the HIGHEST form of patriotism."
The schools have become NO SPEECH zones, where students are required to leave their religion and political beliefs at the door while they are crammed full of blind obedience training by those who would send them to foreign wars to fight for oil after a good dose of sensitivity training for illegal aliens that steal the tax dollars that were to go to Nevadans' children's education.
Thank God for the ACLU.
Editor's note: Yes, well, it's easy to see how your brand of indoctrination is far superior to the one you're railing against.
Last week's feature Shopping for Kids—Stacy J. Willis' report from a recent adoption fair—garnered this response:
My name is Nancy Saitta, and I am a member of the Adoption Fair committee. I have been a part of the Fair since it began in 1996. I want to thank you for the wonderful coverage you gave our Fair in your recent article. You truly humanized the process and obviously spent time at the Fair to learn about what it is all about.
The fact that you will reach so many people with your article is very important. As long as we can increase awareness about the adoption process and the children who wait, we will be making a difference in their lives.
In response to "A Parasitic Street Urchin Writes," by Shawn McCoy (Letters, November 11):
Shawn, I'm shocked! Usually a lowlife like you can't even author their own signature, much less the well-written letter that you've addressed to me.
Perhaps you could write an autobiography about your pathetic existence, and donate all your royalties to all the urban parasites in town that you so boldly defend.
What do you expect from me, Shawn? Should I give all my Christmas savings away to someone whose motivation, self-esteem and survival instincts never developed beyond that of a 5-year old, like you? Maybe your life is so bleak and miserable because God's punishing you. Did you ever think of that?
You wouldn't want a girl like me to risk her good fortune interfering with the Almighty, now would you? I will offer some free advice though: Stay away from booze and from drugs, and eliminate everything that you perceive to be a negative influence on your life; you will find your own way back from hell.
If that doesn't work, you may be a manic-depressive with a chemical imbalance in your noggin; get yourself a prescription of lithium (mood enhancer) you'll be fine.
Editor's note: Hmmm ... harsh, unsubstantiated generalizations about the moral worth of someone lower than you on the social ladder ... unrestrained glee at the thought of God wreaking vengeance upon the unfortunate ... familiarity with lithium ... let me guess: Bush voter, Pamela?