It may also be demographic thing. When I was in my early 30s I was still jumping around, screaming and yelling. I'm 46 now. I'm in good shape for my age, but I'm also much more mellow. I sit often, I clap. But hootin', hollerin' and being loud ain't happening.

But I do agree about cell phones and people sucking that way.

The check I had to cut last year kinda made me gulp, haha. But that means:

1) I'm making money

and more importantly

2) The taxes I pay help support an infrastructure for a guy like me to thrive in. I do prefer my taxes are allocated to social welfare, education, healthcare etc because I believe that would benefit society as a whole, and then ultimately our economy. IE, raise people up/more people win.

People who bitch about paying taxes are selfish IMO. The guys who tiled my house have more work than they know what to do with. A small business owners dream come true. They listen to right wing radio all day, constantly complain about government, and take cash only as payment. I'm not sure what they're bitching about. I'm sure they pay little to no taxes, they sure as shit don't have a business license, E and O insurance, etc etc. They utilize the infrastructure we have in this country to excel in their business, then give little back to it, all while complaining the whole time. Makes no sense to me. But then again, I'm not selfish.

The people who wrote this up claim it would only be exercised if they found that it lead to violence towards a person etc.

The idea is stupid, but nobody is going to jail for failure to use the proper verbiage when addressing a transperson. Ever. That's what I disagree with you saying.