Belated Valentine for NPR

I'm a relatively recent convert to NPR, but in the last year or so I've embraced it wholeheartedly. (Except for A Prairie Home Companion [what the hell is up with that show?], but that's another story.) Some days, listening to the radio on the way to or from work is the only bright spot.

This morning, I was driving back to my reference job and the site of last night's vomit-fest and feeling pretty sorry for myself. Right before I got to work, Morning Edition had a segment on layoffs at Hershey, which apparently is aggressively downsizing. It was all pretty straightforward until Steve Inskeep got to the part about the company wanting to be "a leaner candy company."

At which point, with barely a pause, he said, "A leaner candy company ... apparently they also laid off their sense of irony." And then went on with the business news.

And suddenly my mood improved tenfold.