…when I said, “Goodbye” to Bob Edwards on his annual August vacation (”I’ll see you on Labor Day”) and was shocked to hear a two-host format, with the bothersome Renee Montagne and the boringly bland Steve Inskeep. Almost every day, I’d remark to my daughter, or my wife, or to the air around me, “Lord, I can’t wait until Bob gets back and this crap stops.”

It never occured to me that anyone listening to this local-news-clone happy-talk garbage would actually think it was good, so it never occured to me to email the pinstripes at NPR to complain about their assult on my mornings. I mean, geez, even they had to be able to hear for themselves how lame it is, thought I. Apparently, four or five people wrote to them telling them how good this claptrap was, though, and that empowered them to make the change permanent…although at the beginning of September last year, it never occured to any of us that this would be the case, and we would not only have to face this junk every morning, but lose the one bright spot we could depend on, too.
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