Ma'am; ...Okay, if I might as well be drunk, can I be drunk and using the cell phone too??? Maybe I could call the cops, and tell them to be on the lookout for me on the other end of town... Maybe I could call the kids, and tell them I'm full of fire water so they better take some time to get hid... Oh the things a person could do drunk with a cell phone... At least if you got one you can call your own ambulance... You could tell the person you are talking to, to call the ambulance for you so you could call your boss and tell him you are going to be late, and call the body shop, and the insurance man... I love that story about the guy who got in a wreck, and the cops said: Boy, -you been drinkin, and he said: No saw; I'm still drinkin...  Just between you and me; I am dangerous on my cell phone even when I am parked... But don't tell me women can't talk, and drive because you never see them not do it... I can't count the times in my life when I have been in dangerous traffic, running a year too late, drivin 85 in a 55 and looked over at some woman driving down the road putting on eyeliner, or lipstick..It's like sharing a high speed can with them... I can't tell you if they made it or not; but they was made up if they got there... Thanks...Sweeney

This ridiculous column doesn't deserve a response, but I am going to try one anyway. Her statistics are conjured out of whole cloth, are impossible to verify, and make almost no sense. One can readily concede that anything that takes the eyes and attention of the driver away from the job of driving creates a hazzard for all others on the road. But why not say that scratching one's cheek, changing the radio station, coughing, and any number of other distrcting elements that occur in a car are as dangerous as alcoholic drivers? Ladies and gentlemen, what we have here is another liberal nanny in search of potential "victims" to watch over. Hey Liberals, don't you ever get tired of protecting us from ourselves. Take a vacation from your watch over us, and stare down reality until you finally understand it? The next thing we know you will be requiring the brick makers to label every brick because each one is a danger to someone's big toe.