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Kirby Wilbur Summary for 10/17/06



Time: 00:00 - 00:30
Topic: Madonna's adoption
Summary: Kirby has an "adverse reaction" that Madonna went to Africa and adopted a orphan. A surprising number of early AM ladies call to defend the pop-start. zzzz....

Time: 00:30 - 01:00
Topic: Trial for man who shot policeman
Summary: Kirby discusses the case of a local man who was convicted of numerous felonies before shooting and disabling a police officer.

Time: 01:00 - 01:30
Topic: Girl interrogated by Secret Service
Summary: Kirby asks listeners whether it was proper for the Secret Service to interrogate a 14 year old girl based on a "Kill Bush" posting on her My Space page. Kirby says: "Any threat to the President should be investigated." Caller's draw darker conclusions about the intentions of the child's parents, school, and friends. predictably zzzzzz....

Time: 01:30 - 02:00
Topic: Gating a subdivision
Summary: After taking five minutes to hock some Sugarland concert tickets he can't use (Kirby's fav country band!), the half hour segues into the issue of a subdivision in Federal Way that wants to buy back their streets and gate them off to prevent crime. Kirby's all in favor of letting neighborhoods fence themselves off and fend for themselves.

Time: 02:00 - 03:00
Topic: Self-esteem hurts math
Summary: Kirby narrates a Washington Post story the claims an inverse relationship between school self-esteem programs and good performance in math. Callers are predictable: Social engineering! Public schools suck now! Sex education! Islamocommufacism! Larry Ishmael, the never-gonna-win Republican candidate for WA-01, even calls in to give his expert opinion on the subject. ultra-zzzzzz.....

Time: 03:00 - 03:30
Topic: Internet addiction
Summary: Kirby narrates a news article about internet addiction in the U.S., saying it's all overblown and spending way to much time wrestling with the definition of "non-essential". If you can draw a correlation between Republicans poor chances at the polls and their spokesmen's desire to talk about every boring topic that isn't related to the election, then I'm feeling really good about a coming landslide in November. zzzzz...

Last Updated 10/18/2006 18:52
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