Or should I say “dnt txt n drv”? However you spell it, it’s lethal. I should know. I have (mea culpa) been guilty of all kinds of high tech baloney behind the wheel of my not-so-souped-up Prius on the long slog between the Hollywood Hills and El Segundo and back. I could say it’s the price of being wired to the max coupled with my mini-mini-mini-teensy-weensy-mogul position. But it’s not. It’s just addiction. You don’t have to have the Kindle open on the seat next to you while texting someone with the iPhone on your lap, simultaneously listening to Dennis Miller on Salem. You don’t. Dennis is enough. He is sufficient. Otherwise you or someone close to you or just someone completely innocent and unknown will end up like those unfortunate people in Boston. Enough.
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Blacklisting Myself Memoir of a Hollywood Apostate in the Age of Terror
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1. Michael C. Seaver:Please, Roger, tell me you didn’t txt ths wil drvng……!
May 9, 2009 - 2:24 pm 2. Anita Hope:Maybe a picture of your family on the dash will remind you to refrain from driving & txt/kindle etc. You need to put some good music on and relax before and after, thus more balanced to tackle the streeful hours…You will get everything done as is necessary, At least phone and car conversation does not require eyes off the road, as long as one can concentrate visualy, while vocalizing on the phone.
May 9, 2009 - 2:24 pm 3. Steve:It would help if the MBTA adopted modern technology such as collision avoidance systems. We live on the Green D line that had the fatal accident last May. The only change I have noticed since then is that the trolleys run slower and at irregular intervals (often no trolleys for a time, then two or three back to back). It is ridiculous the trains have operators whose negligence can cause collisions. I think management probably would like to modernize but the transit union blocks it because of potential lost jobs.
May 9, 2009 - 4:51 pm 4. ClericalGal:Roger, I believe Dennis Miller is on Westwood One. Do you mean Dennis Prager?
May 9, 2009 - 7:38 pm 5. Roger L Simon:Well, no, ClericalGirl. Nowadays… here in LALA… both Dennises (Dennisim?) are on the same station: KRLA – http://krla870.townhall.com/
I like them both, but I meant Miller who broadcasts during my homeward commute.
May 9, 2009 - 7:47 pm 6. ClericalGal:Sorry, Roger. My mistake.
May 10, 2009 - 5:33 am 7. Minerva:I hope both Miller and Prager will have some retort for the disgusting remarks uttered at last night’s press dinner.
May 10, 2009 - 11:05 am 8. Anita Hope:Minerva, You are right, however the MSM are again kissing up by giving acculades to him as a co-median and how great his delivery was of his writers words. The ad’s out for Michelle’s “Hope” necklas sure refute the change in how Obama and his writers treat and talk about anyone who disagrees with their views. Since it is all televised, you would think the President would refrain from presenting himself around the world as a comedy act Pres., using better judgement on those he decided to critize and make fun of with political satire.
May 10, 2009 - 12:12 pm 9. Promoguy:I didn’t here the whole schtick, only what was played back and only a few, but what I heard I thought was pretty disgusting myself. If I’m able to remember even back last year, President Bush didn’t go after folks, he kept it at self deprecating humor. That Michael Steele deal I did hear and thought ‘what an idiot that Obama is’.
But I’m sure the media will give him an A on delivery.
May 10, 2009 - 12:52 pm 10. Mike_K:About ten years ago, there was a horrific head-on crash in Orange County caused by a women applying eyebrow pencil in the mirror while driving. She killed an entire family and herself. When the OC Register published a piece about the accident and included the eyebrow pencil part, her family wrote an irate letter to the paper complaining about them publishing a “rumor.” My son happened to be a paramedic on that call and I asked him about it. He said he know the story was correct because she had the eyebrow pencil sticking in her eyeball when he got there. I never heard about any lawsuits and suspect someone clued the family in on the evidence.
We also had a fatal red light running crash a couple of years ago. The red light runner had a cell phone with a number half dialed lying on his car floor.
I used to run the local trauma center. Lots of similar stories. Driving is a full time job. I remember another girl who was applying makeup while driving and hit a parked semi. She survived but her parents brought in a picture of her modeling a bathing suit (she had been a model) to hang on her wall so the nurses could see what she looked like.
May 10, 2009 - 5:05 pm