I know I have ranted about this in this space in the past, but I am majorly bummed whenever Connecticut Public Radio runs one of its on-air pledge drives. I get the importance of fund-raising, but the hectoring tone of the local hosts and the interruption of the normal news stories on Morning Edition--a show I've woken up to most of my entire adult life--really throws off my morning routine. I had to put up with the begging for money down in Florida during the last week of break, and if only I had been lucky enough to have missed the same thing up here.