I would watch the TV series ‘Yellowstone,’ but the language is just too blue for me
‘Yellowstone’ gross profanity
The headline on a Feb. 6 story read, “Why we love ‘Yellowstone’ so much.” (1D) I might enjoy the Paramount Network show if it weren’t filled with the F-word constantly. I started watching but soon quit.
“Lonesome Dove” was a good series that never used that word. The worst thing I ever heard from my grandparents was “horse hockey.”
You think there are a lot of “Yellowstone” viewers now? If the F-word were taken out, I’d bet the audience would double. The vulgar word is simply not necessary.
- Barbara Trammell, Fort Worth
The problem they won’t admit
While discussing his anti-crime plans with the City Council, Fort Worth Police Chief Neil Noakes was asked by one council member what effect the state’s recent gun laws had on what he cited as one of the primary reasons for the rising crime rate: guns. He said he didn’t have those numbers, but I think the chief, addressing a Republican mayor and council majority, didn’t want to talk about a disastrous Republican law that puts more people with guns on Fort Worth streets.
It’s also ironic that the police unions support these same Republicans.
- Archie B. Hunt, Fort Worth
Equity training not welcome
I want to thank the Star-Telegram for printing the brave commentary by Carlos Turcios exposing the outrageous “equity” training that Fort Worth ISD forces on its employees. (Feb. 18, 17A, “Fort Worth schools’ obsession with equity isn’t helping kids learn to read or do math”) The cost and the program cannot stand the light of day. Just what are the qualifications for teaching such a seminar? Wake up, Fort Worth school board. Do you not know what just happened to the board in San Francisco?
- Curtis Basham, Fort Worth
This independent is drawing a line
I am an independent voter, sometimes voting for the GOP candidate and other times with the Democrat. However, this year, I will vote for no candidates who tout their fondness for Donald Trump. These candidates are tacitly approving the Capitol riot incited by Trump.
- David Roll, Colleyville
No way to come together anymore
In their Feb. 23 commentary “Returning to our values through national service,” (13A) Matthew Ivey and Brian Nicholson touted a mandated year of national public service as a means to unite us as a society. However, we might have missed its window of opportunity for igniting public support.
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s blunders, Medicare insolvency and other insults from on high have forever blown up whatever goodwill the American people might have had for anything federally mandated.
- Julie Wende, Fort Worth
Where was Fort Worth on TV?
On Wednesday and Thursday, Fort Worth experienced freezing rain and winter weather. NBCDFW, Channel 5, had not one report on the road conditions in Fort Worth. There were reporters in Dallas, McKinney, Denton County and Weatherford. Samantha Davies showed live video of road conditions all over Dallas, yet she didn’t mention anything about Fort Worth’s road conditions.
I am disappointed in our Fort Worth-based news station’s coverage of our city. Amon Carter is rolling over in his grave.
- Mark Hunka, Fort Worth
Only trappings of a fair fight
As the biennial barrage of political advertising takes over the airwaves in advance of the primary elections, I’m left with one question: Why does a party that is now openly at war with democracy even stage an election? If violence is Republicans’ idea of legitimate political discourse, why not settle their affairs that way?
The naked hypocrisy of pretending to care about the consent of the governed, when in fact they intend to shut it down, makes me sick.
- Chris Bellomy, Fort Worth
I blame Joe Biden for Ukraine
I don’t believe Russian President Vladimir Putin would have invaded Ukraine if the United States had handled the withdrawal from Afghanistan less chaotically.
President Joe Biden miscalculated how quickly the Taliban would take over. Putin remembered how badly the Russian military was defeated in Afghanistan, and he believes our military was decimated by 20 years in Afghanistan. So, what better time to invade Ukraine than now?
If Biden had handled Afghanistan better and not canceled the Keystone pipeline, I might agree with Eugene Robinson’s take. (Feb. 23, 13A, “Putin likely asking: Where’s Trump when I need him?”) But Biden screwed it all up.
- H.P. Ard Jr., Weatherford