Monday

Happy Labor Day. Consistent with TDE tradition, light blogging today. Just this:

When is it not okay to answer your cellphone? http://t.co/lIJU5er5hw pic.twitter.com/rLSCchY0hx

— Forbes (@Forbes) August 29, 2015

I find it disturbing that even 4% think it's appropriate to answer a phone during church and 5% think it's acceptable to answer during a movie. Given that there are normally at least 20 people in such a room, that's way too many.

I actually heard a guy answer his cell during a weekday Mass in my church. There were perhaps 15 people there, scattered about the sanctuary. We were kneeling during the eucharistic prayers, dead silence except for the priest . . . and his phone went off. It rang about three times. Then he answered it. And proceeded to have a conversation for about a minute. I was stunned.