middle weight burn
Douglas Murray’s column on obesity mentions that people with genetic or bone structure problems shouldn’t be shamed because of their height (“Talking regarding obesity risks? Big chance,” May 20).
Unfortunately, it should have included the side effects of certain medications, especially anticonvulsants. My twin sister suffers from epilepsy; one of the devastating side effects of his medications is weight gain.
Many people (including those working in the medical field) need to be educated regarding this heartbreaking issue that many people with epilepsy face.
Alice Hahn
East Orange, New Jersey
Drag out distractions
Do these council members have so much excess free time that they are able to cobble together a proposal for a “drag winner” to serve as an “LGBTQ nightlife ambassador” (“Big Apple in ‘drag’”, May 22)?
There are hundreds of other pressing issues facing the city. I propose a “dumb city councilman” to watch over the useless fools who spend time (and taxpayers’ money) imagining such nonsense.
Richard Rafal
Manhattan
Radical jurists
Bronx Supreme Court Justice Naita Semaj continues to free violent felons (“It’s Judge and Fury in the Bronx,” May 22).
Therein lies the problem: there is no way to get rid of a bad lawyer. They can be reprimanded or suspended, but history shows that they are never removed.
With jurists like this and politicians like Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins refusing to change bail reform laws, New York will continue in a downward spiral.
We the people, who have to take the subway and walk the streets, will continue to suffer while the politicians can use security details to get them back and forth.
Bill Verderose
Brooklyn
Increase in the price of alcohol
When I read that The Nutcracker, beachside booze sold by dune-hopping entrepreneurs, had soared to $15 a pop, I smiled (“’Cracker jacked Prices’” , May 24).
It’s not that inflation is a laughing matter, but that fancy things have to be expensive. We don’t want to live in a world where lobster tails and steaks covered in gold leaf literally cost a penny by the dozen.
Snow crab should cost an arm and a tasty leg. The nutcrackers are cut from the same checkbook. It’s not like we’re talking regarding hard seltzer here.
Olivier Mosier
Astoria
Don’t give up on nuclear
The Post rightly points out that Albany’s silly Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act would cost hundreds of billions and only serve to hasten the exodus of taxpayers and businesses out of state (“NY’s ‘Climate’ Suicide”, editorial, May 23).
However, I was disappointed that there was no mention of the most efficient non-polluting, non-fossil energy source that might meet the state’s electricity needs: nuclear power.
The Indian Point Reactor provided New York City with much of its electricity needs for years before the government of the day. Andrew Cuomo gave in to the ideological opposition of Green New Deal fanatics to anything nuclear, and had the site shut down.
The left ignores advances in science and technology and draws a false analogy between nuclear power and destructive nuclear weapons and outdated and aberrant cases like Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.
Any “Green New Deal” that does not include nuclear energy as a major component will prove to be a vain hope.
Denis Middlebrooks
Brooklyn
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