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If this report from Rachel Maddow is true, and MPB removed a program (Fresh Air) because of ONE complaint, (that’s right  just one) then I’m done with MPB. I’ll continue to listen to your morning news, but I won’t contribute anymore to listen to it. Why? Because I now know that as soon as someone [...]

I mostly listen to public radio in the morning and evening during my daily commute. I just can’t stand the local music stations and ‘talk’ radio = right wing nut-job radio in my area. So public radio it is for news of the day. If I find news to boring (or depressing) I’ll listen to [...]

Just got off the phone with a friend of mine. This is his story. He travels a LOT and wines and dines customers as part of his job. His company reimburses him, of course, but it’s nothing for a thousand dollars to be ‘off’ when he does his bills. He had an unusually busy two [...]

So I update my computer this morning, reboot it and get back to work. Today around 3:00 the auto-update tells me there is another update so I update. HOWEVER, this time I want to continue working and I’ll just worry about rebooting at the end of the day. Too bad Microsoft didn’t see it that [...]

Had one of ‘those’ days today. Been working in a Microsoft Access database for work. I’m having to write some VBA scripts to import some data into the Access database so it can then produce some XML for me. Anyway, I was ALMOST done today around 2 when my latest test of the script caused [...]

I used to think Mississippi wasn’t THAT bad, because the people I know aren’t anything like that. I’m born and raised here. I KNOW we aren’t all ignorant hicks barely literate with a 100 word vocabulary. However; listening to Rural Voices Radio makes me think, ‘WE ARE ALL HICKS HERE!”. I mean, couldn’t they at [...]