Don't get me wrong. I never used to actually agree with Tom Sullivan on much of anything. But he did have a certain gentlemanly aura about him that made me capable of listening to him without resorting to high pitched shrieks (the kind I use for Rush). But did his joining Fox turn him into a jerk?

I hadn't listened to him for several months. Earlier this week I had a 2 hour drive in an area of poor radio coverage and had forgotten to bring my XM Radio. Turn to stalwart KFBK. Tom Sullivan is going off about incandescent bulbs being banned. He says that he has the right to use whatever bulb he wants and if he wants to pay the extra cost for the energy consumed, that's his business. Well actually Tom, it's not just your business because all of that extra energy that you are requiring is heating up my earth and I an pretty resentful about that. One might think that as a parent, you might be a little concerned about that too. Concerned enough that you might be willing to take a light that is a little 'cooler' than the warm glow you require. How selfish can you be?

Next day, I tune in again, just at the minute that the family who had been lost in the Sierra's for 2 days when they went to cut down a Christmas tree. You are going off about how they had no right to go in there so unprepared, etc. etc. Could you just slow down for a second and let everyone be grateful that they are alive and well? I can sort of see when those climbers got lost on Mount Hood a year ago could make people question the reasonableness of their decision to go out in terrible conditions - they were professionals. But a local family, with a Dad that had just moved from Southern California? Did you ever hear of a mistake, Tom? Thank goodness, it didn't turn into a fatal and tragic mistake.

Is that what happens when local radio guys go national on TV? They turn into jerks. Is that a requirement? Makes me be much more sure to remember my XM every time I travel.

Gillian Parrillo
SacWomen