Dear Fred,
It’s weird when a well-known actor like you becomes a spokesperson. I’m not sure what’s going on: Are you vouching for the product or are you just pretending? In your reverse-mortgage ads, are you speaking to homeowners 62 and older as the actor from Law...
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Dear Fans and Generations Viewers:
By now, you would have heard that we, the principal cast of Generations, have made a decision to embark on a strike, and walk off the set of Generations.
First of all, we want to apologise for the inconvenience that this may cause you, as our loyal viewers and fans. Please believe that it is not a decision we came to lightly. However, in light of the SABC and the MMSV Productions continued refusal to engage with us, and our grievances, we felt that reviving the strike was the only course of action available to us.
We wanted to take this opportunity to explain to you exactly what led to this drastic action, and give a full context of the events to date. It is also important for us to state that before we went on strike, we made a point of...
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Dear Deepika,
Ever since I heard about your coming out of the closet, so to speak, about your struggle with depression, I have wanted to write. I have swung between many personal and political issues concerning mental health since listening to you.
I had to remove your celebrity image in my head and look at you as a human being in order to write this. I've self-harmed as a child and continued through adulthood. Often, I have bouts of severe depression where I feel I'm choking for days or weeks, and then, as if with a flip of a coin, I spring up to a high and prance about like the world is mine before I hit a different nerve and drift way into a fantasy land of zombies, ghost and what not. I have my version of depression but that is not what my label is. The one I carry-...
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Dear “Libertarians”,
I notice a lot of you like to say that brown people in Third World countries accept low-wage, hard-labor jobs because that’s better than the alternative (namely: subsistence farming). You argue that this is how the invisible hand of the “free market” works.
No, it’s fucking not.
The only reason they are condemned to these choices is because they had the misfortune of being born in some banana republic, some petty dictatorship, or some ass-backward Third World country; viz., some place you ‘libertarians’ would never – ever – want to find yourselves. You would kick, punch, claw, gouge and shoot your way out. You would climb mountains, cross deserts, or navigate shark-infested oceans in order to find something better.
But when I bring up immigration, I’m not...
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Dear Dawn,
I am writing to you about the ‘terror expert’ Glen Jenvey (aka ‘Richard Tims’) and his associate Michael Starkey.
In January, The Sun published a story for which Jenvey was the primary source in which it was claimed that a number of celebrities had been targeted by extremists.
Evidence later emerged suggesting that it was Jenvey himself, posing as a radical Muslim, who had posted the relevant forum messages and named these celebrities as "targets".
The Press Complaints Commission has since launched an investigation, and one of the celebrities named (Alan Sugar), has announced that he is taking legal action.
I’ve been looking into it myself, and I’ve uncovered further evidence proving Jenvey to be a fraud, a liar and a fantasist (first link is a summary if you can’t...
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Gentlemen:
Your recent shutdown of a popular Star Trek website (www.stuniverse.com) was undoubtedly within your legal rights. However, simply because an action is legal does not necessarily mean that it is beneficial.
Your legal department may fume over sites that use Star Trek material without permission, but the fans that construct and visit these sites are your customers: we are the ones who faithfully watch the shows (and the advertisements), pay to see the feature films, purchase the videotapes and laserdisks, collect the novels, and buy the toys for ourselves and our kids.
I've been a Star Trek fan since 1969 and my collection of all things Trek is something to see. You've made and will continue to make quite a bit of money on me, and I don't begrudge you a dime of it...
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Dear Mr. President
We write to urge you to denounce the Turkish complicity in the recent attack launched by the Islamic State on the town of Kobani.
Islamic State, in its twin attack on Kobani and Hasaka, has once again committed heinous crimes. In Kobani and Brakh Bootan, a nearby village, more than 200 people including children, women, and elderly were killed; the number could rise as more bodies would be recovered from buildings and homes; over 200 have been wounded. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights this was the second biggest carnage perpetrated by the ISIS. The Kurdish Protection Units, PYG, have reportedly expelled the Islamist terrorists from Kobani, which in January 2014, became the symbol of enduring resistance against the ISIS. The UN Office for the...
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Dear Tony Abbott,
I will try to keep this letter brief as I know you have a short attention span and since you've never responded to my previous correspondence, I can only guess it was because they were longer than your brain capacity could absorb.
The main topic of this letter is to let you know that I think you're an opportunistic, petty, vindictive creep and that you're running the country as if you would like to imagine that all Australians are equally as petty and vindictive as you. But we're not. And you're not going to win your soon-to-be announced election because we're better than that.
Over the last 24 hours, Barack Obama – the greatest President America has ever had and possibly the best leader the world has ever seen – has once again shown what it is to be a visionary...
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Dear Editor,
Are you aware of the fact that the same day the Senate Health and Human Services Committee approved the unconditional permission to terminate the lives of 24-week-old fetuses, the neonatology unit at Abbot Northwestern was caring for a 22-and-a-half week-old (500 gram) preemie with good chances of healthy life?
Now that is news and calls for profound reflection. Instead, your lead editorial the morning after (Feb. 26) glossed over this critical issue and endorsed abortion because it is "one of the most personal decisions a woman can make" and because "the abortion decision is undeniably sensitive." This level of reflection is unworthy of major editorials in good newspapers.
I assume you mean by "personal decision" not: having deep personal implications; but: having...
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Dear Aspiring Broadway Performers,
Look, we have to have a talk. I feel like there is a disconnect here, perhaps it can be chalked up to a generational gap…but then again, no, I don’t think it can because there are a lot of young working actors who bust their butts every day to get where they are and stay there.
Every day I find myself in contact with people (friends and strangers alike) who call themselves “actors.” I’m already skeptical of these people, for better or worst, because I work in an industry over saturated with people who want to be actors, want to be famous, whatever. Some people truly want to get paid to do what they love, to perform their craft in front of an audience, to entertain. Others really just want notoriety. Whatever it is you want, you’re going to have to...
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