In response to the doctor saying she saw patients texting during appointments. I was in my university health services when i heard two nurses discussing how a patient had been texting her boy friend while they where giving her an invasive STD test. They where horrified and I agree you need to think about when texts are appropriate and the doctors office is certainly not an appropriate place.

texting is more polite (to others within earshot). Just thought I’d mention that since no one has as yet.

Please texting, I really can’t stand it. I miss the days before cell phones.

The host said that the stimulation was started under the Republicans. What program was this?

I do remember a couple of tax cut checks sent out under the previous administration. Those were nice but if that is considered stimulation then the new administration has not stimulated the tax payer at all.

Unless the host meant to say TARP or auto bailouts.

There was a similar comment last week about Tea Party people being put in a hard place if they refuse to go along with a bank tax. It’s an odd thing to say when the Boston Tea Party was a tax revolt.

Texting e.g., college guest at Thanksgiving dinner who was clacking away sending messages at the table. She never talked with us. This sorta functions like the safety of a foreign language (how many times on public conveyance have we heard someone speaking in their native tongue?). What’s the impact? It cuts out some, includes the messagee and underscores their subgroup. And let’s them be themselves (some w/out manners). New device. Old behavior.

The so-called Stimulus Plan was supposed to be for infrastructure “Shovel Ready” projects. Early on, we kept hearing about “Shovel Ready”. Then out came the money and, in Michigan (and most other states), the Stimulus money went to fill holes in state budgets. Now…No more talk of “Shovel Ready”, infrastructure didn’t get fixed, and the deficit bloated. No wonder people sent Washington a message.

Roger you’re right.. altho I said stimulus instead of stimulation. I should have said TARP.

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Robin, thanks for the segment on Richard Brautigan. I still remember someone recommending his book of short stories “Revenge Of The Lawn” when I was a freshman at The University Of Louisville back in ‘92. I remember rolling onto campus around 8am one day to quote Robert Mitchum: “Thirsting, hungover, and dry”. I knew I’d be worthless taking notes in a lecture hall so I walked over to the library and read that small book in it’s entirety. There’s a certain kind of wry, easygoing magic in Brautigan’s works; a man rearranging a sad world more to his liking with some kind of surreal water balloon.

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