Comments on: Drive-by pontification http://gearino.com/index.php/2007/12/11/drive-by-pontification-3/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 18 May 2012 23:07:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Suburban Kamikaze http://gearino.com/index.php/2007/12/11/drive-by-pontification-3/#comment-602 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:33:26 +0000 http://gearino.com/index.php/2007/12/11/drive-by-pontification-3/#comment-602 2. Gender might account for this, though I don't really understand why. Of the couples I know who read both Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, all of the women empathized with the Wild guy and thought the Thin Air (Everest expedition) group was insane. Male reaction was the reverse. Their reviews of the book mirrored your feelings about the movie. Strange. 2. Gender might account for this, though I don’t really understand why. Of the couples I know who read both Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, all of the women empathized with the Wild guy and thought the Thin Air (Everest expedition) group was insane. Male reaction was the reverse. Their reviews of the book mirrored your feelings about the movie. Strange.

]]> by: Mikey http://gearino.com/index.php/2007/12/11/drive-by-pontification-3/#comment-599 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:59:59 +0000 http://gearino.com/index.php/2007/12/11/drive-by-pontification-3/#comment-599 Go for the Satellite Radio Dan but know this, it also is becoming infected with commercials. I bought the service 3 years ago (I'm an XM guy). At that time it was pretty much commercial free but now even the all music channels roll a few commercials each hour. For music, news, sports all in all it is great! It even has NPR and Air America (unless the latter has finally heaved it's last breath) for the Kool Aid drinkers on the left! Go for the Satellite Radio Dan but know this, it also is becoming infected with commercials. I bought the service 3 years ago (I’m an XM guy). At that time it was pretty much commercial free but now even the all music channels roll a few commercials each hour. For music, news, sports all in all it is great! It even has NPR and Air America (unless the latter has finally heaved it’s last breath) for the Kool Aid drinkers on the left!

]]> by: Bella Parola http://gearino.com/index.php/2007/12/11/drive-by-pontification-3/#comment-598 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:34:36 +0000 http://gearino.com/index.php/2007/12/11/drive-by-pontification-3/#comment-598 Hey Dan - I'm pretty much down with you on all three counts, except that in number 1, there is more to the story than just Mr. Parton's state of drunkenness before going on stage, I think, whether it was habitual or just that occasion. It appears to be more about the drunken and/or criminally negligent way he managed the theater and several million dollars of the taxpayers' money - that was just the moment they chose to give him the heave-ho. On number 3, I will not be investing in satellite radio any time soon. I will either listen to one of my relatively few CDs, listen to NPR, or just listen to the wind whistling in the windows. But I too will not listen to nonstop Christmas carols at any time and will do my best not to return to the stations that play them even when they have stopped. One an hour the week of Christmas and a couple of hours on Christmas itself are pretty much all I will tolerate. Hey Dan -

I’m pretty much down with you on all three counts, except that in number 1, there is more to the story than just Mr. Parton’s state of drunkenness before going on stage, I think, whether it was habitual or just that occasion. It appears to be more about the drunken and/or criminally negligent way he managed the theater and several million dollars of the taxpayers’ money - that was just the moment they chose to give him the heave-ho.

On number 3, I will not be investing in satellite radio any time soon. I will either listen to one of my relatively few CDs, listen to NPR, or just listen to the wind whistling in the windows. But I too will not listen to nonstop Christmas carols at any time and will do my best not to return to the stations that play them even when they have stopped. One an hour the week of Christmas and a couple of hours on Christmas itself are pretty much all I will tolerate.

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