We were out later than we should have been last night (my daughter, who has a bedtime of 9:00pm, was enjoying an ice cream at a local establishment at 9:30pm), so I slept in a bit. I hadn’t changed the Internet radio station I was listening to late last night, so that new NPR morning program was playing as I lie somewhere between sleep and awake, when at the top of the hour I was horrified to hear:

Steve (Ken): You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me?

Renee (Barbie): Yes, it’s Robert De Niro’s birthday, he’s 61.

Now look…I expect amateur crap like that from my local television news; Ron and Janelle are routinely performing this insipid nonsense. But I simply could not believe how unprofessional NBR NPR has become in the months I haven’t been listeneing.

Thank bloody heavens my XM radio will be delivered tomorrow, and in only a month-and-a-half Bob Edwards will return to my weekday mornings…