The Medical Radiologic Technology Board of Examiners (MRTBE) has a website that one can use to check the status of a license. Someone at work pointed it out to me while we were discussing how long results for the test for the PRT, the limited license, would take to find me. The website hasn't been updated since the very day I took the test, and I pointed it out to a tech. She said the people there are assholes, because she has called and when she finally gets through to a human, they are always rude to her. I was discussing this with my wife, she said the nursing board is the same way, and said something very interesting. She said the entity is, "staffed by little minds that have a need for control."

It seems quite frequently to be the case, that poeple in these positions are inhospitable to the people they serve when there is little chance for recourse from those served.

On another note, I have listened further to Susan Jacoby's Unreason. She laments extensively about the decline of reading among the choices people have for entertainment. That this will be a detriment to society is the inference, and she talks about the results of only one study concerning the difference in vocabularies between children that were exposed to videos as infants and those that were not. She makes a statement about centuries of literacy, but this discounts the eons of illiteracy that had endured before literacy among the most common people prevailed. I would not be surprised if people who lived during the first decades of this country lamented the same way about how reading replaced good old fashioned hard work as a means of exposing people to what they needed to survive in the world.

Of course, I am biased in my critique of hers, because I use electronic devices almost exclusively to fill my leisure. To be sure, it is possible I would never have picked up her book had I not been able to get it in audio format.