Speaking of phones...

When I got in the car this morning, the 29-second cell phone issue was still raging on the radio, complete with a local communications commissioner doing a very pathetic job of defending his actions. In fact, he was taking such a beating I was actually having a difficult time listening, so I cranked out the Jay-Z and Linkin Park until I got to work. I briefly turned back to the radio as I pulled in the parking lot and...yeah, I think maybe that whole thing was a hoax. If so, it wasn't very funny and it made a lot of people (me included) mad. I didn't have time to listen and confirm this, but good Lord. That's, like, the worst prank ever.

So...anyway, let's look at some phone facts I know to be true, because I got them out of Newsweek. So, America, did you know that you made 500 billion calls last year? On landlines alone? (God knows how many you made on you cell phones.) Those 500 billion calls amounted to 2 trillion minutes on the phone. The form of measurement known as "trillion" is very difficult for me to comprehend, as is the fact that the people in this country alone could rack up that many minutes. Sounds like too many people on the phone.