{"id":893,"date":"2009-08-14T12:04:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T19:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=893"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:34:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:34:50","slug":"fighting-for-focus-friday-august-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/fighting-for-focus-friday-august-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting For Focus – Friday August 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDear Poor Lucky Me,<\/p>\n

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Shouldn’t there be a law that you can push people out of the way if they’re walking and texting at the same time?\u00a0 Also: shouldn’t you be able to deliberately crash your car into people who are texting while driving?<\/p>\n

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This seems very obvious to me, and yet I’m being charged with assault!<\/p>\n

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Please advise,
\nRage Solution<\/p>\n

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\nDear Rage Solution,<\/p>\n

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On one hand, it’s great to live in society that boasts a relatively functional justice system and police force. On the other hand, I often get nostalgic for wild-west-style vigilante justice. <\/p>\n

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\nIf the NRA is going to have such an annoyingly big presence in American politics, we should at least be allowed to wave guns at people who can’t adhere to basic societal niceties. Like looking at the road while they’re driving. I’m not going to SHOOT anyone. Probably. I mean I’m not going to shoot anyone very hard. Maybe I could just hit people over the head with the butt of my gun. Is that also illegal?<\/p>\n

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iPhones and Blackberries are great.\u00a0 They’ve made it easier to wait in long lines, easier to find a normal-ish restaurant off the highway on a driving trip, and allow people to play Scrabble while on the toilet.\u00a0 But smart phones are also shrinking our attention spans.\u00a0 For instance: I’m already bored with this topic.\u00a0 Sorry, it’s not my fault, it’s Apple’s.<\/p>\n

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Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Poor Lucky Me<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Poor Lucky Me,   Shouldn’t there be a law that you can push people out of the way if they’re walking and texting at the same time?\u00a0 Also: shouldn’t you be able to deliberately crash your car into people who are texting while driving?   This seems very obvious to me, and yet I’m … Continue reading “Fighting For Focus – Friday August 14”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3726,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/3726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}