CELL PHONE ETIQUETTE:

After a tiring day, a commuter settled down in his seat and closed his eyes. As the train rolled out of the station, the young woman sitting next to him pulled out her cell phone and started talking in a loud voice:

"Hi sweetheart. It's Sue. I'm on the train".

"Yes, I know it's the six thirty and not the four thirty, but I had a long meeting".

"No, honey, not with that Kevin from the accounting office. It was with the boss".

"No sweetheart, you're the only one in my life".

"Yes, I'm sure, cross my heart!"

Fifteen minutes later, she was still talking loudly.

When the man sitting next to her had enough, he leaned over and said into the phone,

"Sue, hang up the phone and come back to bed."

Sue doesn't use her cell phone in public any longer.

From my email.

HEH: Lapdogs fess up; AP admits ‘wrongly’ inserting words to fix Obama gaffe.

IRS AGENT: Tax agency is still targeting Tea Party groups. Well, there is an election coming in 2014....

I'D RATHER ban candidates from politicking until 30 days before an election.

COLORADO LANDLORD TO MARINE: Get rid of your guns or get out.

UPDATE: Not so fast, bucko....

CURIOSITY'S FIRST BIRTHDAY: NASA has high hopes the Mars rover's winning streak will continue.

HIGHER EDUCATION is a government-created cartel. And government wants to keep it that way.

IEEE SPECTRUM: The Making of Facebook's Graph Search.

HUH?

Republicans are not giving special Obamacare exemptions to churches. Translated into American English, Republicans are unwilling to grant exemptions and waivers to bad policy to their friends; they want to fix the policy.

Racial polarization is all the GOP’s fault. Translated into American English, it's racially polarizing to woo (and win) minority voters from the Democrat plantation.

MESSENGER: Goodbye, Earth.

TOO BIG TO FAIL: Megabanks are a creature of government, not of unbridled capitalism.

WATCH WHAT YOU SAY, your robot may be listening.

MEGYN KELLY reportedly taking over 9 p.m. slot in Fox News prime time lineup. Please, no. Let her replace Shepard Smith in the 7 p.m. slot.

AN OCEAN OF DOUBT. So sink a few oil tankers; that should take care of the problem....

AMAZON FOUNDER says he clicked on Washington Post by mistake. If the Chinese published it, it must be true.

DETROIT MANAGER: We Could Have A Clean Balance Sheet In 14 Months. The $64 question is whether Detroit can keep that clean balance sheet. My guess is not without hiring a new citizenry....

THE NUCLEAR OPTION: How Journalism 'Professionals' Killed the Washington Post. My daily subscription is worth about what I pay for it; that is, zero.

YOU JUST THOUGHT you could move to escape poverty. Today the Jeffersons wouldn't have a chance.

PUBLIC SERVANTS: They serve each other and gouge you.

I WANT OBAMACARE, but ... you go first. I think $950/mo -- or even $661/mo pretty well explains why ObamaCare will bo bust. Eight to twelve thousand dollars/year pays for an awful lot of doctor visits.

Let people buy catastrophic health insurance, what used to be called hospitalization insurance.