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On 2004-09-15 (JimKollens) said:
I like it. I never really believed the second-hand smoke thing,
unless you work in a crowded bar. But the thing that really sticks
out in my mind is how many, many things seem to bother everybody in
the last decade or so. It happened somewhat gradually and I don't
think many people really realize how much more relaxed and tolerant
things used to be. You also mentioned political correctness. It's
ironic that political correctness was designed to produce tolerance,
but it actually seems to have the opposite effect, a very stifling
effect. I don't know where you live, but out here (Dupage county,
Illinois) people are unbelievably paranoid. No-one will even have
one single drink or a beer for fear they will get a DUI on their
way home. In the 80's even, it wasn't like this. I have noticed
that people don't bond together like they used to in the past, they
seem to just be in a hurry to get home. I find it a strange
strange world, one that I can't really get used to. I wouldn't
want to.

Ditto! LIved in southeast IOwa and saw that change a couple years
ago. AT least my folks play the routine where when they go out one
plays designated driver.

THey plan on a visit to New ORleans where I reside currently. I'm
going to surprise them when I tell them to leave the rental car
parked, or their own if they drive down. for a lot of their tourist
activities they can use public transit, drink as much as they want,
enjoy as much as they want and leave when they get tired of the zoo.
Easier on the environment, easier on their nerves (just try finding
legal affordable parking in the French Quarter) and a lot more fun for
them.

IF a proprietor of an establishment wants his joint to be smoke free
that's fine by me. HOwever when the government starts telling me all
this crappola that's where I draw a line. YEsterday in preparation
for the big nonevent which Hurricane Ivan turned out to be for NEw
ORleans I was deployed as emergency communications help to our largest
local medical facility. OF course in the radio room where I spent the
day and last night smoking is prohibited, but there was an area
outdoors an elevator ride and half a block's walk away. Once every
hour or two leave my wife who's also a licensed ham in charge of the
radios and slip out for ten minutes and a smoke. Another advantage:
THe radio room had no windows. WE could follow the progress of the
storm on the web and get local conditions at two airports a park and
across the lake, but I got to actually see what current local weather
conditions were at my location.

Richard Webb,
Electric SPider Productions, New Orleans, La.
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