Chattanooga Pulse

Even More Music Venues

Very well done, Hellcat [“The Good, The Bad and The Sound”]. I would like to add a few more venues to your list, like T-Bones, Buds, The Tin Can and Spectators, to name a few that offer live music on a consistent basis.
David Rick
Chattanooga

Parents Need To Parent

Parents need to stop worrying about who they’re dating and what reality show to watch and be PARENTS to their kids [“Is This Chattanooga Or Dodge City?”]. Shucks, I might be wrong but that certainly couldn’t hurt.
Dana Fly
Chattanooga

Losing The War on Drugs

In a purely economic sense the war on drugs fails us [“Inside The Front Lines Of A New Cultural War”, 6/18]. Our current approach simply costs too much while providing a boon to a criminal underclass. In The Godfather II a gangster said, “We won’t make the same mistake with drugs that we did with liquor,” meaning that drugs will be kept illegal, some drugs anyway. Prohibition should have taught us that making a substance illegal only creates an economic engine that pumps out dollars for criminal organizations on a truly massive scale. That’s the reality, face it.  Tough talk on illegal drugs only scores cheap political points for politicians and makes traffickers smile. Drug abuse should be treated as a medical problem not a criminal one. Believe me, criminals the world over are hoping we continue to keep our heads in the sand.
David Durham
Chattanooga

Alex Teach’s “On The Beat” column last week, where he detailed one of his stranger dreams, attracted a lot of online commentary on our web site at www.chattanoogapulse.com

I have similar dreams, though mine are not usually as graphic, and I just chalk it up to my subconscious keeping my conscious in check. It is it’s way of processing and showing me the possible results of my decisions and it prepares me for the hell to follows should I have to make the hard decision. —“Brian from TN”

What Mr. Teach is experiencing sounds an awful lot like post-traumatic stress disorder. Having worked for the attorney general in my state I got to see some pretty awful stuff. But nothing near what the cop on the street sees. We developed a gallows humor about it. And we drank like fish. —“Kilodelta”

Definitely not a laughing matter, though not a cop I am a vet who 15 years after action still have vivid dreams and even remember some, even though not as many as before. I wish you the best and can empathize with you. —“Ben Kinney”