One radio talk show host asked caller after homeless caller why they chose to live in them.
Once presentations are completed, the class should evaluate which hosts and callers were most effective.
Many hosts and callers derided the "gang of eight" senators who drafted the legislation as the "eight gangsters".
On talk radio, the angst was particularly pronounced, as hosts and callers howled about the Knicks' lack of competitive spirit and their disregard for defense and, frequently, about their coach, Mike D'Antoni.
But Guillen has seemed uncharacteristically defensive this year, railing against talk radio hosts and callers in one snit and suggesting another managing job will find him should the White Sox decide he's no longer their man.
On talk radio today, hosts and callers complained that the White Sox have to play their first two home games in the afternoon so that the television networks can show both New York teams in prime time.
On some shows, the talk can be angry and conflicted, with hosts and callers tackling everything from trouble hailing cabs to Amadou Diallo to the use of the word "niggaz" on a popular DMX record.
Not that the hosts and callers don't have a deep antipathy to Saddam Hussein, criminals, illegal immigrants and the United Nations, but those miscreants tend to serve only as the pretext for denunciations of the people who coddle them -- the libs, as Mr. Limbaugh calls them.
After all, I noticed on most of the radio and TV interviews I did this week on this issue, the backlash against Newport seems to be picking up steam, judging from the reaction of hosts and callers.
What they left behind were a few phone numbers found on a host's caller I.D. box and a string of embarrassed officials stretching from Pakistan to New York to Washington and back.
I would have trouble listening to people, whether host or caller, tearing down any artist, even when I agree that their work is negligible.
