I had just decided I would leave the corporate world to move here to NY when, the publicly held company I worked for decided to restructure. If I didn't take the new position they were offering me, there was no place for me, and I would have to take their "package" worth 1/2 year salary and leave. Timing is everything. I took a week to decline the position, I didn't want to appear too eager. Used the money to start a business here and couldn't be happier

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CLAIM MENTAL ILLNESS

Let's say hypothetically I spent a night binging on alcohol and certain illegal substances and got busted by my Partner; I would claim mental illness...."My prescription for anti depressants ran out last week and I just totally lost it last night."

I was able to get out of a traffic ticket for speeding by telling the cop a very old joke, about a guy who was also stoped for speeding. The cop asked the driver why he was driving so fast...the man answered after a moment of thought "I'm low on gas and want to get to a gas station before I run out"

This remindes me of a letter written to me by a close friend. He starts off on a two page rant about how disillusioned he is by modern American society. After sarcastically encouraging all young people to continue to eat junk food in order to strengthen our digestive systems to ready them for a post-nuclear acolypse diet of mutated rats he states: "The only good news is I got out of a DWI by pleading insanity".

I guess snark is only reserved for the hosts of The Takeaway. Here I post a perfectly good (somewhat snarky) comment criticizing the show and its hosts just to see it removed for being "disrespectful".

What about all of us loyal ME listeners who have to suffer the disrespect heaped on us every morning by wnyc?

Needles:

Did it have anything to do with the topic? Of course it didn't. What part of "off topic" don't you understand?

And aren't you alleged progressives supposed to be in favor of change?

Let me break it down for you, Mark.

Here's the reason given for my removed comment: "Be civil: Please respond insightfully and respectfully. There is room for disagreement, but please disagree with people's ideas. Personal attacks will not be tolerated"

Nothing there about "off topic".

Also, please show me:

1. where I claimed to be a "progressive"

2. where "progressivism" means change for change's sake

The Takeaway is just that - an unnecessary change - not for the better- but for the sake of changing.

A "progressive" solution would be to improve Morning Edition, if it was shown to be lacking. Judging by the feedback here, there wasn't anything lacking (except maybe Bob Edwards).

Enoch...I'm not quite sure what you mean by "suffering." The survivors in Myanmar are suffering. Plenty of homeless people I see on the streets every day are suffering. How about the Tibetans? I'd say they're suffering too. To use the word suffer to describe your feelings towards a news program is totally unacceptable. I don't think you really understand the meaning of the word.

Well Kristin, by your own admission you're not quite sure what I mean by "suffering", so let's go to the dictionary:

suf·fer v.tr

To endure or bear; stand

e.g., would not suffer fools

Taken in that sense (the sense in which it was obviously intended) "suffering" is obviously a more than appropriate word selection.

You see, Kristin, English is a wonderful language in which words often have multiple meanings, as well as varying degrees of the same meaning. You should pick up a book on the subject. It's really quite fascinating.