Letters to the Editor: Not happy with Super Bowl halftime show
Halftime outrageous
I settled in at a neighbor’s home, where several of us planned to share our carefully planned potluck dinner. We were going to watch the long-awaited Super Bowl game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers. The game was a nailbiter to the very end. My team won for the first time in 50 years! My world was good.
What was not good, however, was the halftime show, featuring Jennifer Lopez and Shakira. Alarmed and appalled don’t begin to describe my thoughts as this distasteful performance continued. The scanty costumes, the pole dances, and the body bending-in-half maneuver were vulgar and disgusting, even if they had been done in a YMCA gym.
If this was for our viewing pleasure, this certainly took it to a different level.
I believe most viewers were aghast at this crude form of showmanship, especially with children performers sharing the stage. This show belonged in Las Vegas, not as prime-time, family-viewing, television entertainment.
Marilyn C. Todd, Lexington
Thanks, postal employees!
After hearing many negative stories about the U.S. Postal Service, here’s my story. On a Monday in January, I dropped a letter at the Lexington Main Post Office. My next stop was to deposit a check at my bank for $1,000. The check, however, had other ideas and surreptitiously paperclipped itself to the letter. The post office was also closed due to Martin Luther King Day.
The check would be difficult to replace, so the next morning I went to that post office and relayed my story to a compassionate woman behind the counter. She didn’t laugh at me or give me the tsk, tsk, tsk, but instead found Doug, a manager, to help me (Hmm. A manager of a big, semi-governmental agency helping a person who did something dumb?).
Doug said he would call me when he learned anything. At 6:30 p.m., Doug did call to let me know the mailbox contents had been taken to Louisville. The next morning, he called again to tell me my check was found and could be picked up at the customer service desk that same day.
Over a dozen employees helped make this happen. Wow!
James McGuire, Georgetown
Injuries minimized
As a veteran I have never been one to hold draft dodgers in very high esteem. But Donald Trump set a new low when he didn’t even have the decency or courage to run to Canada. Instead, dad gave him a doctor’s note and millions to spend. It’s why the president now disrespects our military and writes off the injuries our soldiers suffered in the recent missile attacks in Iraq as a few having “slight headaches”. This, as more than 50 of those soldiers have been airlifted back to the United States for treatment of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). America, trust draft dodgers and vermin at your own peril.
Mark W. Waggoner, Lexington
Laughter as strategy
Democrats keep using righteous indignation as a strategy to beat Donald Trump. It has never worked. Many have acknowledged that there is a Twitter troll occupying the Oval Office. He is up for reelection this year, and I think it is time we treat him as such. The problem is when you treat trolls seriously, they win. There are two options available for how to deal with them. The first is to ignore them. The media are not going to do this any time soon. The other is to be a better troll. So far they have all been on the right. (One was recently awarded the Medal of Freedom). It should not be this difficult for the left considering the material they have to work with. So do your patriotic duty. Do not douse the flames of this dumpster fire. Laugh at it.
Israel Ballenger Rains, McKee
Cuts deadly serious
While President Donald Trump claims to be protecting Social Security and Medicare, his 2020 budget will cut these vital life-saving and sustaining programs by billions of dollars. This is a very serious matter and likely to affect all of us. Rather than seniors living in retirement homes we will have seniors dying in homeless camps. Can you imagine living on the streets as a senior adult? This is no joke. We already have too many older adults who cannot afford the food and/or medicine they need, and you may end up being one of them.
Beverly C. Johnson-Miller, Lexington