I learned to dislike the telephone at least half a century ago. I’d found that people,would say things to me on the phone that they wouldn’t dare say face-to-face particularly in a work environment. As a full grown guy well known to have a low tolerance for cheapkrap I didn’t let them get away with it. My typical method was to excuse myself from the call and beeline it to where the dumbass was calling from and give him one more chance to spit out what he was trying to say. Invariably it wasn’t really a problem except with the callers manners. And it would never happen again with that caller. I re-trained a whole lot of people, one at a time, by not letting them run their mouths. I see the same thing with the web, twitworld, pod world and all the rest of the digital universe but it’s not possible to get to the mouth-runners one at a time any more. Just too many of them and they’re spread out too far. Except for production working computers I simply don’t have any of the other devices——if they can’t cut steel I can’t use them and I’m not going to let myself be distracted with personal attacks. Still, occasionally, some dunderhead learns that the hard way.
With John Roberts on the USSC, all Obama needs to do to circumvent the 2nd Amendment is to impose a confiscatory tax on firearms. Let’s say a 1,000 percent tax on the purchase of any weapon and an annual $5000 per gun ownership fee. Roberts believes that the Feds have unlimited taxing power, even if the use of that power effectively renders a Constitutional right meaningless.