A New York Put up reader weighs in on Douglas Murray's current column about weight problems in America.
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Med-weight blight
Douglas Murray’s column on weight problems mentions that folks with genetic or bone-structure points shouldn't be shamed due to their measurement (“Discuss weight problems dangers? Fats likelihood,” Might 20).
Sadly, he ought to have included unwanted side effects of sure drugs, particularly anti-seizure medication. My twin sister has epilepsy; one of many devastating unwanted side effects of her drugs is weight acquire.
Many individuals (together with these within the medical area) should be educated about this heartbreaking problem that many individuals with epilepsy need to take care of.
Alice Hahn
East Orange, NJ
Drag distractions
Do these council members have a lot extra free time that they can concoct a proposal for a “drag laureate” to function an “ambassador to LGBTQ nightlife” (“Huge Apple in ‘drag,’ ” Might 22)?
There are a whole bunch of extra urgent points going through town. I suggest a “moronic councilman laureate” to observe the ineffective fools that spend time (and taxpayer dollars) considering up such stupidities.
Richard Rafal
Manhattan
Radical jurists
Bronx Supreme Courtroom Decide Naita Semaj continues to chop violent criminals free (“It’s decide & fury in Bronx,” Might 22).
Herein lies the issue: There’s no option to do away with a nasty jurist. They are often reprimanded or suspended, however historical past reveals they’re by no means eliminated.
With jurists like this, and politicians like Meeting Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Chief Andrea Stewart-Cousins, who refuse to amend the bail-reform legal guidelines, New York will proceed in a downward spiral.
We, the folks, who need to experience the subways and stroll the streets, will proceed to undergo whereas the politicians can use safety particulars to take them back and forth.
Invoice Verderose
Brooklyn
Booze value increase
Once I learn that Nutcrackers, boozy beachside drinks bought by dune-hopping entrepreneurs, had shot as much as $15 a pop, I smiled (“ ’Cracker jacked costs,” Might 24).
It’s not that inflation is a grinning matter, however that elegant issues must be costly. We don’t need to dwell in a world the place lobster tails and gold-leaf-covered steaks are actually a dime a dozen.
Snow crab ought to value an arm and a tasty leg. Nutcrackers are reduce from the identical checkbook. It’s not like we’re speaking about exhausting seltzer right here.
Oliver Mosier
Astoria
Don’t nix nuclear
The Put up accurately factors out that Albany’s idiotic Local weather Management and Neighborhood Safety Act would value a whole bunch of billions and solely serve to speed up the exodus of taxpayers and companies out of the state (“NY’s ‘Local weather’ Suicide,” Editorial, Might 23).
Nevertheless, I used to be upset that there was no point out of essentially the most environment friendly non-polluting, non-fossil-fuel supply of power that might remedy the state’s electrical energy necessities: nuclear energy.
The Indian Level reactor offered New York Metropolis with a lot of its electrical energy wants for years earlier than then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo caved to the “Inexperienced New Deal” zealots’ ideological opposition to something nuclear, and had the positioning closed.
The left ignores the science and technological advances and attracts a false analogy between nuclear energy and damaging nuclear weapons and outdated, outlier circumstances like Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.
Any “Inexperienced New Deal” that fails to incorporate nuclear power as a serious part will show to be a forlorn hope.
Dennis Middlebrooks
Brooklyn
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