JANUARY 13, 2004 --

CP-PRS --
That stands for cell phone-provoked rage syndrome. If this phenomenon has not yet made the front pages, how far-off the story about an altercation at some check-out counter invovling a person on a cell phone at the same time her purchases were being rung up. Or this circumstance: altercation at a computer shop between cellphone user and person at the next desktop trying to compose an e-mail. In New York City, smoking is banned in many public areas. Some people might find second-hand conversation rather more
unpleasant than second-hand somke. It is time for a Code of Cell Phone Ettiquette.
Something for lawmakers to do. Banning unwanted junk phone messages that cost us money to hear them.

Ground America --
Would anyone object if the term "Ground Zero" as used in referfence to the site of the World Trade Canter attack were changed to Ground America? And then with the Bush Administration to take notice that the public regards the 9/11 tragedy as an attack on the country
at large, not just part of New York -- state and city (under the jurisdiction of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey).
Haven't seen any polls on whether the future of Ground America should be determined by all America, have you?

The hilltop field outside Shanksville, PA. is, sadly, also part of the Ground America established by the sacrifice of our countrymen, ennobled by courage and
valor and simple humanity and so clearly hallowed in consequence.